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Rogers Leads for Canadian Quarterly Net Subscriber Growth

The Canadian mobile connection market stood at 21.25m at the end of Q3 08, equivalent to a penetration rate of 63.0%. Annual growth has been stable at between 8.2% and 9.0% for the past five quarters and the Q3 08 figure of 8.7% was exactly the same as the year-earlier figure, although given the low penetration level this is not exactly an impressive performance. Perhaps the launch of Orascom's network - scheduled for spring 2009 - will energise what is a decidedly sluggish market.  more

Related Tags: arpu, mts, telus, bell, sasktel, Canada


Telus 2Q Net, Revenue Up On Stronger Wireless, Wireline Revenue

Telus Corp. posted stronger earnings and revenue in its second quarter, driven by improvements in both wireless and wireline data revenue, leading it to nudge its revenue view for the year slightly higher.  more

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Without BCE's Wireless Operations, Telus Bid Seen As Odd"

TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Telus shareholders are likely a lot more nervous about their company Thursday than they were Wednesday. more

Related Tags: telus, pension, bell-mobility, goldman-sachs, providence-equity, ontario, industry-canada, toronto, toronto


Telus And BCE Confirm Merger Talks

TORONTO (AP)--Telus and bce, Canada's two main telephone companies, said they are in merger talks, as Telus joined a growing list of companies eyeing bce, which confirmed earlier this year it was reviewing options to increase shareholder value. more

Related Tags: telus, pension, rogers-communications, ottawa, ontario


Another Solid Performance, as Rogers Passes the 7m Mark"

Rogers Communications is the largest mobile company in Canada, with 6.86m retail customers and an unspecified number of wholesale connections, which we estimate will take its total to just over 7m. The vast majority of these are connected through contract plans - 5.49m as against 1.37m - and during the quarter in question, there was a further shift in this direction. Some 94.5k new contract customers were added, while 8.7k prepaid were disconnected. The net effect is that the quarter saw an additional 84.5k connections. more

Related Tags: telus, churn


50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006

­The Eastern Management Group has released the names of the World's 50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006. Compilation of the list is an annual joint effort between the firm's two largest and oldest practices. The Service Provider Consulting Practice assists businesses to establish and manage distribution channels and channel partners that sell to service providers throughout the world; while the Service Provider Market Research Practice performs ongoing tracking of all of the world's telecommunications service providers, in more than 200 countries and territories. more

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Rogers,Bell Cda In JV To Build Wireless Broadband Network"

TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Rogers Communications Inc. (RG) and Bell Canada have agreed to build and manage a Canada-wide wireless broadband network and will jointly and equally fund the initial network deployment costs, estimated at C$200 million over a three-year period.  more

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