OTTAWA – Who needs to be tethered to a home phone anymore when the phone can be tethered to you wherever you are? The proportion of Canadian households relying only on cell phones for their communications instead of land line phones has more than doubled in just over two years, according to new data from the Statistics Canada's Residential Telephone Service Survey. As of December 2005, just over 615,000 households, or 4.8% of the total, reported having only a cell phone, compared with just 1.9% in mid-2003. Households in the two westernmost provinces, British Columbia and Alberta, are leading the...
