OTTAWA – While Canada may not be as “mobile only” as some other countries, entertainment and video use are “flourishing on mobile platforms” thanks to the investments made by Canadian facilities-based carriers in their networks, notes the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA).
“Video and entertainment services on mobile devices require strong wireless networks to back them up”, said the CWTA. “The fact that Canadians in every province and territory are able to consume the services they want on some of the world’s fastest and most reliable networks is due to the significant investments made by facilities-based carriers – more than $45 billion so far. These trends, especially once the 20 Gbps download speeds of the new 5G networks are introduced, are expected to grow rapidly. Keeping up with Canadians’ demand for mobile data will require even more investment.”
Referencing Canadian data in comScore’s recent 2018 Digital Future in Focus report, the CWTA also highlighted several findings that it says confirms the continued growth of popularity in Canada of mobile devices, and the associated ongoing growth in demand for wireless services.
Those findings include:
– Mobile users consume twice as many minutes online as desktop users;
– When smartphones and tablets are added together, Canadians spend 58% of their total digital minutes on mobile platforms;
– Nearly 90% of Canadian mobile subscribers used their device for banking, some manner of financial service or a retail purpose, while 95% used their mobile device to access a news site; and
– Mobile video views in Canada accounted for 51% of video views on top online platforms.
