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November 21st, 2008Mobile penetration ekes up to 70% in Canada, still sucks

New stats are out on wireless penetration in Canada.

” A new Harris/Decima survey finds that 72% of Canadian households now have access to a wireless phone, up from 64% in 2006. Commissioned by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)”

it gets better

“Canadians continue to be some of the most enthusiastic mobile phone users in the world” said Bernard Lord, CWTA President and CEO.

Than you Bernard, give us a second while we try and mop up the vomit of sycophantic incredulity now splattered down our shirt fronts. As we work on that, how about a wirelessnorth challenge? We hereby declare! WirelessNorth.ca will give $100 dollars to anyone who can identify any comparable country worldwide (let’s define that as greater than 1M population and close to or greater GDP per capita to Canada) with a lower wireless penetration rate than Canada. Hint: there isn’t one. But nonetheless, we’re serious, see if you can prove us wrong.

To get you started, a few quick wireless penetration stats from select countries you may have heard of:

USA 82% penetration 2008
UK >100% 2006
ITA >100% 2006
Fra >90% 2006
Ger >85% 2006
NZ >80% 2006

You can argue that the wireless industry has been getting a lot better in Canada. But we still suck. As an industry, all we’ve achieved, is to be last place by less than last year. go Canada.

http://www.landlinefree.com Dan

Reminds me of when I was in Croatia, in my mom's home village. Pop'n: ~30, pretty far down from its pre-war peak of about 400-500. Half the homes have fallen down due to lack of maintenance. Nearby towns are at least a few km away and of similar disrepair. The place is in a valley too.

Yep, 2 cell phone providers I could pick up. And it isn't as though I'm picking up the residual from another town, they're actually pointing an antenna into this valley of half-broken villages.

Back-country tunnels? 5/5 bars, while we can barely get access in the subway stations here…
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