Low-income earners spending ‘absurd’ amounts on communications, says advocate

OTTAWA — Canada’s telecom regulator says the average household spent nearly $223 every month on communications services, including mobile phones, landlines, internet and cable TV in 2016. But low-income households are spending exponentially more than higher income earners as a percentage of their income, according to the CRTC’s latest Communications Monitoring Report. The snapshot of […]