Canada on track to pass 100-percent wireless penetration rate

Canadians’ growing love affair with mobile devices is putting the country on track to achieving a wireless penetration rate that exceeds 100 percent in about three years.

More than three-quarters of Canadians owned a wireless device at the end of 2011 but that number is expected to climb as it becomes increasingly common for consumers to own more than one mobile gadget. And the explosive popularity of data-hungry devices such as smartphones and tablet computers is creating growth opportunities for wireless carriers, some of which are already seeing their data traffic increase by 5 percent per week.