The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released a report that shows how Canadians are downloading more data than ever as a result of the growing use of broadband technologies over mobile devices and within the home. The report is the second part of the “2016 Communications Monitoring Report” on the communications industry and on the telecommunications sector in Canada.

According to the CRTC, fixed and wireless usage has boomed over the last year (across all subscribers) and more than two-thirds of all wireless subscribers have a data plan, the majority of those featured at least 1 gigabit of data usage per month. Data usage reportedly increased by 44 percent for wireless and approximately 40 percent for residential internet services from 2014 to 2015.

As Canadians continue to migrate toward mobile wireless services, subscribing to landline telephone services is decreasing, the report notes. Mobile is in more Canadian households compared to landline services, CRTC reports, and the gap separating mobile wireless only households compared to landline only households continues to increase.

Broadband networks are now reaching almost the entire population of Canada, CRTC says. The rise in Internet service availability is also reflected in the internet subscription rates that have been increasing steadily since inception. More specifically, they have increased 3.3 percent from 2014, the commission says. Subscriptions to plans 50 Mbps and higher reportedly have doubled their take-up rate in the last year.

CRTC also points out that for the first time ever, internet access revenues surpassed broadcasting distribution revenues and has emerged as the second largest sector after wireless in the country. The internet and wireless sectors continue to be the drivers of growth in the telecommunications sector as well as for household expenses, the commission concludes.