Dec 2006 Residential Telephone Service Survey

By Heri May 7th 2007 in Mobile

Statistics Canada has released last week statistics about telephone usage in Canada:

Proportion of households by type of phone service, December 2006

	Land-line	Cell phone	Cable telephone/VoiP
Canada	90.5	66.8	10.6
Newfoundland and Labrador	95.0	61.8	4.9
Prince Edward Island	92.6	64.7	5.9
Nova Scotia	93.2	63.6	10.8
New Brunswick	94.5	57.5	5.4
Quebec	86.4	57.9	13.2
Ontario	92.5	70.1	9.6
Manitoba	90.7	62.4	11.5
Saskatchewan	95.5	67.9	6.4
Alberta	88.2	80.1	13.5
British Columbia	91.2	68.6	8.7

You can see that Québec is ahead for cable and VOIP but lacks behind all provinces when considering landlines and cell phones. This needs serious studies on why Quebec lags in Canada. Is it because of the Province’s size? is it the cultural difference? is it the economy?

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Comments

Jean-Francois Arseneault May 07, 2007

Low landline %: could it be by choice? Quebec has traditionnaly had smaller percentage of home owners than elsewhere, and while that’s slowly changing, I know of many friends that DECIDE to only have a cell phone, which is more practical than a land line.

Also count the fact Montreal, with its 2M+ inhabitants is a very urban crowd (ie. mobile) with different needs than some other provinces.

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Heri May 07, 2007

Hi JF

the problem is that Quebec cell phone usage is the lowest in the country, just behind New Brunswick. I will have to see how much it costs in Ontario and in other provinces to see if it’s a price differece

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xutopia May 07, 2007

I’d love to see how much the popularity of internet via cable rather than DSL affects those numbers. The only reason I don’t have a cell phone is because I already have a land line. If I hadn’t chosen Sympatico I wouldn’t have a need for a land line and I would mostly have a cell phone instead.

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Heri May 19, 2007

@xutopia – i think you dont have a cell phone because none of your contacts use one. the problem lies in the big 3 telcos in quebec – bell, telus, rogers

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