The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released information from its 2014 Communications Monitoring Report which shows that increasingly more Canadians are adopting smartphones and tablets, reports Telecompaper.com on Sept 25, 2014.

Over 62 percent of the population owns one of these devices, and 39 percent of Canadians use tablets, up from 2013, when percentages were 51 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In 2013, 90 percent of wireless service subscribers were the customers of one of Canada\'s three major providers. Wireless service networks were accessible to 99 percent of the population, flat from 2012. In 2013, the percentage of Canadians with access to fourth-generation wireless networks, or LTE, increased from 72 percent to 81 percent in a year. The market share in terms of revenues for wireless service companies competing with the three major providers went from 6 percent to 8 percent between 2012 and 2013.

In 2013, broadband availability for residential services (excluding satellite) was 97 percent nationally, 100 percent in urban areas and 84 percent in rural areas. The percentage of households that subscribed to internet services remained stable, from 79 percent in 2012 to 80 percent in 2013. However, the percentage of subscribers with download speeds of 5 Mbps or more increased by 5 percent reaching 67 percent (including satellite services) in 2013. The market share of small service providers competing with the three major providers in Canada increased as well, from 9 percent in 2012 to 10 percent in 2013.