The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released information from the 2015 Communications Monitoring Report on the state of Canada’s communications system. The information in this section shows that the way in which Canadians use communications services continues to evolve.
For the first time, more Canadians subscribe exclusively to mobile wireless services (20%) than to wired (i.e., landline) telephone services (14%). The transition to the widespread use of mobile wireless services is borne out by the fact that more Canadian households have mobile phones (85%) than landlines (79%).
Over the past five years, the percentage of Canadians who have access to 5 megabits per second (Mbps) download speed (including via satellite) has risen from 86% to 96%. Seventy-seven percent of Canadian households subscribe to these services, up 6% from 2013.
BROADCAST MAGAZINE – October 22, 2015.
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