Cellphone Bills A Dollar Cheaper on Average in 2010

Thanks to new entrants to the telecom market, you can maybe afford an extra coffee once a month.

Congratulations, Canada! According to the CRTC, you spent $1 less, on average, per cellphone bill in 2010 than you did the year before! Progress! Just overlook the fact that your Internet bill probably went up, and that we're still leading much of the developed world in how much we pay for increasingly essential devices such as mobile phones, and that we have slower networks, and that the lower average price is due to new contracts with international phone companies such as Wind or Mobilicity and not lower prices from Canadian telecom companies, and that you probably paid $3.55 a month more for your cable bills, and that Rogers and Bell are still posting huge profits each year. But hey, $12 dollars over the course of a year? That's enough to buy lunch! Once! A year!