Canada’s telecommunications environment is fully privatised with the government having no holding in any telecom carrier. Telecom Service Providers within the Canadian market are broadly categorised as either incumbents or competitors. Incumbents are the telephone companies that provided telecom services on a regional monopoly basis prior to the introduction of competition, and include the out-of-territory affiliates of the incumbents.

Telus Communications, Canada, has posted net profit of CAD267 million (USD250 million) for Q2′08. The company said it added 176,000 new wireless subscribers in Q2, including 157,000 post-paid subscribers, higher than the 2Q contract user net additions reported by rivals Bell Canada and Rogers Communications.

Operators       – subscribers (MARCH’08)

Rogers Wireless – 7.406 million
Bell Mobility   – 6.260 million
Telus Mobility  – 5.656 million
SaskTel Mobility- 0.452 million
MTS Mobility    – 0.400 million

Rogers Wireless, Canada, introduces BlackBerry Bold smartphone to it’s subscribers in Canada.
Naskapi Imuun and OmniGlobe Networks signed agreements that creates Canada’s first national cellular service provider equally owned by an Aboriginal partner. The new joint-venture known as Lynx Mobility Inc. combines leading technology and innovative business models to deliver cellular phone services to small un-served communities in remote and rural Canada.

Notable highlights of the 3Q08 Canada Mobile Forecast include:

• The wireless penetration level in Canada is forecasted to be 71.5% in 2010. Total subscribers in Canada are forecasted to increase from 20.4 million in 2008 to 24.9 million in 2010.
• Given the success of the spectrum auction and the entry of new players, a slight decline in market shares is forecasted among the incumbent operators on Canada. For Bell Mobily, it estimated that it’s current 31.3% market share is the most vulnerable to erosion by new entrants. Rogers Wireless is being seen as the strongest incumbent wireless operator and its market share expected to be 36.3% of subscribers in 2010.
• Monthly churn rates will continue to be similar across different operators and they will stay in the range of 1.8% – 2%.
• It is forecasted that Rogers Wireless will receive the highest ARPU among other wireless operators in 2010 at US$ 65.29 per month. Rogers Wireless will also have the highest MOU per subscriber at 720 minutes per month in 2010.

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