For cellphone subscribers who howl at the cost of their monthly bill, at least you’re not living in Japan — or the United States for that matter — where those services cost a few bucks more on average.
At least that’s what figures published Thursday by the country’s communications watchdog, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, suggest.
In its annual look at telecom (phone, wireless, Internet) and TV services across the country, the CRTC compares average prices here to those in five other countries: the U.S., U.K., France, Australia and Japan.
What did it find? Though prices here are generally higher than across the Atlantic (and to a lesser extent Australia), the cost for mobile phone and Internet use or bundled services for home phone, Internet and digital TV are cheaper here than in the U.S. and Japan.
The report also noted that last year, the average Canadian family spent $185 a month on mobile phone, home phone and Internet services as well as TV subscriptions – 2.5 per cent higher than in 2011.
Here’s the table directly from the CRTC report (p. 200), which you can download in full here. The numbers come from research compiled by Wall Communications through the first three months of the year.
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