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February 10th, 2009 · by Heri · Mobile

Number of the day: 58 millions mobile phone subscribers now in France, with 1 million having 3G access. That’s a penetration rate of 91.3%, while Canada is at 51.3%62% (last stats from cwta.ca). So one could think:

  1. Canadians don’t know about mobile phones,
  2. OR they are “culturally” attached to landlines,
  3. Canadian mobile carriers don’t know how to market, sell or package phones,
  4. handsets manufacturers have all decided that the Canadian market isn’t worth it, so they aren’t releasing the hot phones here,
  5. there is no true free competition,
  6. the Canadian market is too small and/or too costly to maintain for mobile carriers
It sure isn’t a good sign for local mobile innovation.

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