Canadian Wireless Data usage Soars - Prices Stay high

Despite some of the highest wireless usage charges in the world the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications proudly announced that Canadians are expected to triple their use of wireless data in the next three years, following their rapid embrace of a range of innovative and affordable mobile data services including wireless e-mail, text messaging and Internet access.




despite the increased cost for data usage new collborations are coming online including: text messaging, mobile satellite radio, unlimited music downloads, wireless e-mail and wireless video calling, have spurred a rapid growth in data usage by Canadians. Approximately 10% of the average Canadian's monthly cell phone usage is now related to wireless data, according to figures provided by CWTA member companies.

With wireless service providers reporting data growth rates exceeding 50% per quarter, CWTA expects spending to triple to more than $3 billion in the next three years as Canadians increase their demand for non-voice wireless services such as e-mail, social networking, Web browsing, music downloads, mobile television, satellite radio and text, multimedia and instant messaging.

RIM continues to be one of the top devices that people use for data exchange (the email). Hopefully the servive offering becomes cheaper as new media comes online such as video and more email. Canadian wireless carriers offer a range of unlimited Internet access and text messaging plans that have helped spur the fast growth of such wireless
data services.

Surprisingly, despite the huge cost (in comparison to the actual byte usage per message) text messaging volumes continue to soar in Canada since inter-carrier text messaging service, a North American first, was launched in the spring of 2002. Text messaging usage has more than doubled each year since the introduction of the inter-carrier service.

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2 Responses to “Canadian Wireless Data usage Soars - Prices Stay high”

  1. Fred333 Says:

    Seems like every country is behind the US in some way or another.

  2. news Says:

    The US has pretty high data usage charges as well. I think North America as a whole is behind Europe and Asia (Japan, Korea)

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