Household expenditure data from 2013-17 showcased
GATINEAU – Canadian households continued to abandon landline telephone service in favour of mobile service, with almost a third subscribing to mobile service only, the CRTC said in its latest Communications Monitoring Report released today.
The data from 2013-2017 shows how household subscriptions to television distribution services continued their gradual decline, with “about three-quarters of households subscribing, while the percentage of households with Internet service increased slightly to 89%,” reads the report.
As well, adds the research, Canadian households spent an average of $233 per month on their communications services in 2017, an increase of 4.6% from 2016. In comparison, the average annual inflation rate in Canada was 1.6% in 2017, according to Statistics Canada.
Canadian households spent more per month on mobile ($101.00) than on Internet services ($54.17), television distribution ($52.58) and landline services ($25.25), in 2017.
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