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Sites licensed for mobile carrier spectrum

Positions holding at least one mobile carrier licence, meaning the cellular, PCS, AWS, 600 MHz and BRS bands that phones use. This is the number behind whether a phone works on a road, subject to the caveat that a licence is not a signal.

per 1,000 permanent residents · current

Divided by the 2025 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.7× between the largest and the smallest.

per 1,000 person-years · current

Divided by the 2021 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.6× between the largest and the smallest.

per 1,000 peak residents · current

Divided by the 2021 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.8× between the largest and the smallest.

What these figures carry

  • Records where operators have licensed and built, not what signal reaches a dwelling. No public source publishes measured signal strength for this county.
  • A licensed site may not be in service, and one site may hold many licences across bands and sectors.

Dysart et al

  • Licensed here for mobile carrier: Bell Mobility Inc., FIDO SOLUTIONS INC., Rogers Communications Canada Inc., Telus – Regulatory Affairs. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 20 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 6 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Minden Hills

  • Licensed here for mobile carrier: Bell Mobility Inc., FIDO SOLUTIONS INC., Rogers Communications Canada Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 24 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 8 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Highlands East

  • Licensed here for mobile carrier: Bell Mobility Inc., Rogers Communications Canada Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 11 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 3 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Algonquin Highlands

  • Licensed here for mobile carrier: Bell Mobility Inc., FIDO SOLUTIONS INC., Rogers Communications Canada Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 12 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 3 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Which way is better

Contested. Tower and transmitter counts are infrastructure, not coverage; coverage is the internet metrics. Nothing on this page is ranked, and the bars are ordered by size rather than by merit.

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