Cord cutting (phone and TV) to accelerate in Canada, says report

TORONTO – Watch for more Canadians to dump their traditional phone and TV subscriptions, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting.Canadian telco residential wireline telephone line loss was 7% in 2010 (as it was in 2009) and the research company forecasts 8% for 2011 and 9% for 2012 and ‘13. The report, part of the company’s “The Battle for the North American Couch Potato” series, estimates wireless substitution was responsible for 36% of the 2010 loss and that wireless substitution will comprise 49% of the loss in 2011 and 53% in 2012.“We estimate Canadian wireless-only households at 11% YE2010,...