The Communications Monitoring Report from Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was released recently and gave an overview of the state of affairs for the industry. During the release of the report, Chairman of the CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, said that the report was a good tool to measure how the Canadian communications sector was doing with regards to its customers’ needs. The most interesting conclusion from the report was the fact that even though digital content was freely available to Canadian citizens, Television programming and radio broadcasts still held leading positions.
Further analysis of the Communications Monitoring Report shows some interesting and encouraging numbers. The CRTC report stated that wireless subscribers in Canada for 2011 had grown to 27.4 million and represented 78.2% of household. This was a 6% jump from last year’s numbers. CRTC also shed some light on new wireless companies that have recently entered the market and showed that WIND, Mobilicity, Public Mobile, Videotron had grabbed 4% of the total. However, they only represented 2% of the revenues being generated. Overall revenues generated from wireless services went up from $18.0 billion to $19.1 billion. That is a 6.2% increase from 2010. Average revenue per user also had a slight increase from lat year and was currently reported at $57.98/month.
The report also contained numbers about content generation and consumption. 2011 looked like a good year for Canadian organization as 1,183 radio services and 702 television services were on air. Canadians consumed an average of 28.5 hours of television and 17.7 hours of radio on a weekly basis. Both these numbers are an increase from 2010 even though digital content was available. Consumers only viewed 2.8 hours of Internet television per week and showed their preference for TV and Radio.
Source: CRTC
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