Canada - Mobile cellular subscriptions

Mobile cellular subscriptions

Mobile cellular subscriptions in Canada was 32,360,000.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 34,366,950.00 in 2019, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 1960.

Definition: Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 0.00
1965 0.00
1970 0.00
1975 0.00
1976 0.00
1977 0.00
1978 0.00
1979 0.00
1980 0.00
1981 0.00
1982 0.00
1983 0.00
1984 0.00
1985 12,000.00
1986 60,000.00
1987 98,364.00
1988 202,633.00
1989 345,178.00
1990 583,766.00
1991 775,831.00
1992 1,026,611.00
1993 1,332,982.00
1994 1,865,779.00
1995 2,589,780.00
1996 3,497,779.00
1997 4,195,000.00
1998 5,346,000.00
1999 6,911,038.00
2000 8,727,000.00
2001 10,649,000.00
2002 11,872,000.00
2003 13,291,000.00
2004 15,020,000.00
2005 17,016,600.00
2006 18,749,100.00
2007 20,277,400.00
2008 22,092,500.00
2009 23,811,900.00
2010 25,825,400.00
2011 26,840,000.00
2012 27,720,000.00
2013 28,360,000.00
2014 28,789,000.00
2015 29,765,000.00
2016 30,752,000.00
2017 31,693,000.00
2018 33,211,000.00
2019 34,366,950.00
2020 32,360,000.00

Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) in Canada was 85.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.86 in 2019 and a minimum value of 0.00 in 1960.

Definition: Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 0.00
1965 0.00
1970 0.00
1975 0.00
1976 0.00
1977 0.00
1978 0.00
1979 0.00
1980 0.00
1981 0.00
1982 0.00
1983 0.00
1984 0.00
1985 0.05
1986 0.23
1987 0.37
1988 0.76
1989 1.27
1990 2.12
1991 2.78
1992 3.64
1993 4.67
1994 6.46
1995 8.88
1996 11.87
1997 14.10
1998 17.81
1999 22.81
2000 28.53
2001 34.49
2002 38.08
2003 42.21
2004 47.21
2005 52.91
2006 57.62
2007 61.58
2008 66.27
2009 70.56
2010 75.63
2011 77.71
2012 79.38
2013 80.35
2014 80.72
2015 82.62
2016 84.52
2017 86.28
2018 89.58
2019 91.86
2020 85.74

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications