Wireless phone subscribers in Canada
Industry Studies
- Wireless Industry Contributes $41.2 Billion to the Canadian Economy – May 31, 2011
- Ovum: The Benefit of the Wireless Telecommunications Industry to the Canadian Economy
(pdf) - 2011 Cell Phone Consumer Attitudes Study – Quorus Consulting Group (pdf)
Investment and Job Creation in Canada
- Wireless communications generate a total economic value of some $41 billion for the Canadian economy.
- Canada’s wireless carriers invest more than $1 billion in mobile phone communications infrastructure each year.
- The members of CWTA pay licence fees in excess of $150 million each year – more than two-thirds of the total fees collected by Industry Canada from all spectrum users.
- Over 261,000 people are employed in Canada as a result of the wireless industry. The wireless sector offers high value employment – it has an average salary level of $60,031, compared to a Canadian average salary of $43,895.
- The demand for highly skilled wireless communications specialists is so great that Canadian post-secondary institutions are creating programs specifically geared to the wireless industry.
The Canadian Market
- Canada’s wireless carriers now offer coverage to more than 99 per cent of Canadians.
- Advanced wireless networks that support handsets such as smartphones and Internet sticks are available to 96% of Canadians.
- At the end of December 2011, Canadian wireless phone subscribers numbered 26 million.
- Half of all phone connections in Canada are now wireless.
- 75% of Canadian households have access to a wireless phone.
- Canadians send 224 million text messages per day.
- Each year, Canadians place more than 6 million calls to 9-1-1 or emergency numbers from their mobile phones.
- Wireless revenues in Canada totalled $18 billion in 2010.
- Wireless market sector revenues are the largest component (43%) of total telecommunications revenues.
Information:
Marc Choma, Director of Communications
Tel: (613) 233-4888 ext. 207
E-mail: mchoma@cwta.ca
