Canadians clocked an average of 45 hours online in the fourth quarter of 2011Canadians are spending more time online than users in 10 other countries, a new report has found.
The report, 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus, by the internet marketing research company comScore, found Canadians spent an average of 45.3 hours on the internet in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 43.5 hours during the same quarter a year earlier.
That’s more than internet users spent online in the fourth quarter of 2011 in the United States (38.6 hours), the U.K. (35.4) and South Korea (30 hours).
Some countries saw significant decreases in internet usage in the two time frames. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Italians’ internet usage dropped to 18 hours from 27.7 hours in the same period a year earlier. In India, usage dropped to 12.6 hours from 21.8 hours.
France added more than 15 hours to their internet time, at 27.5 hours during the last quarter of 2011, up from 11.9 hours a year earlier. U.K. internet users added nearly 10 hours to their online time, jumping to 35.4 hours from 25.8 hours a year earlier.
Canadians’ Internet usage nearly double the worldwide averageCanucks spend more time online than anyone else on Earth, according to new data from Web research firm comScore. And it’s not even by a small margin – the average Canadian spends 43.5 hours a month on the Web, almost twice the worldwide average of 23.1 hours.
I'm sorry. 
On a serious note, this is important information regarding major changes occurring in Canada's Internet management. We're getting the short end of the stick when it comes to rates and speeds. It's an insanely poor relation between the quality of the service and the rate of cost. It's only recently that things have begun to change. However, I'm questioning the validity of this research. It could very well be used to legitimize claims by the major telecoms that Internet management is in actuality representative of our usage.
We'll see what comes of this.
smart ass, omg is that what an average means?