All I know is, everyone in Poland (all our family and friends) each had personal cell phones and mostly dropped their land lines (if they ever had one to begin with) before hardly anyone I knew had a cell phone here. The reasons for this were many but mostly comparative pricing of cellular vs land lines in these markets. Both places had land line monopolies, but ours were dirt cheap and theirs were expensive/restrictive. Cellular coverage was easier to implement in smaller/denser European countries vs sprawling Canada. Cheaper better service.
Here, there was a huge debate recently about competition and the gov was to intervene in some way (not allowing the big 3 to buy out smaller startups for one thing). The Cellular lobby's TV commercials were hilariously full of shit.
As for internet, when it comes to broadband, there are basically only 2 providers in the area (3 in all of Canada as far as I know, but most areas only have 2 of them available, at most). Then there are the miriad of resellers - who buy bandwidth in bulk and resell it, often at better rates, but with various anti net neutrality policies by the big 2 (won't speak about the 3rd provider I don't have access to), such as throttling, (seemingly) idle connection dropping and other bandwidth capping/saving shenanigans (which are of questionable legality and they don't admit to, but I have to deal with regularly for work - supporting telecommuters on a VPN) the attractiveness of the resellers is diminished as they have less and less control over such practices on the larger networks they piggyback on. The smaller (usually local, vs provincial or national) resellers are loosing their competitive advantage in this way (a great example of this is Teksavvy, who used to be awesome and very straight up legit with their packages as regards network shenannigans and actually delivering advertised speeds, but no longer; it's beyond their control now.
Broadband pricing, meanwhile, has been on an exuberant rise (in my opinion outpacing increase in network speeds and reach).