Legal Research

Phoning It In

By Simon Fodden

The Stats Can Daily has a report on the 2006 survey of types of residential phones. The big shift is away from exclusive use of land lines to include cell, cable and VOIP phones as well: In 2006 29.6% of households (3.8 million) used only land lines; in 2007 the figure had dropped to 24% of households (3.1 million).

Only 6.4% of households report relying on cell phones only, up from the 5.1% of the prior year. Less than one percent of households report not having any phone at all.

What’s interesting to me is that the survey, which is carried out for the various phone companies in Canada, measured land line only, cell phone only, but not cable of VOIP only, reporting instead on the aggregate cable or VOIP use with and without the use of other phone types.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).