More than a third of younger people living on their own have dumped their landline in favour of mobile phones, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.
Eight per cent of Canadian households have cellphones but no landline, according to the December 2008 figures from Statistics Canada's Residential Telephone Service Survey.
But that number jumps to 34.4 per cent when looking at households composed solely of 19-to-34-year-olds. Only 4.5 per cent of other households have given up their landline in favour of cellphones.
The changing habits of younger consumers helps explain the shift over the past few years as Canadians have increasingly come to rely on their cellphones for communication.
Overall, 74.3 per cent of Canadian households indicated they had a cellphone in 2008, up from 72.4 per cent in 2007 and 67.1 per cent in 2006.
Western Canada has led the way in cellphone adoption, with 84.5 per cent of Albertan households having at least one cellphone. Quebec has the lowest adoption rate with 65.5 per cent of households having cellphones.
Less than a quarter (24.8 per cent) of homes had only landlines, while less than one per cent had no phone service.
The study drew on the responses from participants of the agency's labour force survey conducted in December.
Source: Compare Cellular
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