Articles tagged with: Bell Mobility and Rogers

Canadian Operators Switch to WCDMA - Plan LTE Rollout

Canada's two CDMA operators, Telus and Bell have confirmed recent rumours and jointly announced plans to build a WCDMA based overlay on their existing networks. The companies also confirmed a long-term migration path to LTE based services. more

Canada's Mobile Penetration Rate Rises to 61.6%

The Canadian mobile market had another quiet quarter, as operators prepared for the 2GHz spectrum auction. This saw most of the available bandwidth going to the three large players, Rogers, Bell and Telus, but no fewer than 12 new entrants acquired licences. In total, the aution raised CA$4.25bn. The new entrants include 9193-2962 Quebec Inc (CA$554m, for Quebec), Globalive Wireless, which paid CA$442m for a national licence, Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises which won licences for Ontario, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Victoria at a cost of CA$243m and Shaw Communications, which paid CA$190m for spectrum in British Colombia, Alberta, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and northern Ontario. more

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

New Canadian Operator Expected to Launch in H2 2009

Globalive Communications, one of the winners in Canada's recent radio spectrum auction says that it expects to launch its new network in the second half of next year. The company paid CA$442 million for licenses which would cover the entire country - except Quebec. more

IN DEPTH: The Top Operators by Subscriber Base in North America

The North American mobile market has not changed significantly since our last quarterly review. The ten largest companies, which account for the vast majority of subscribers in the region, have maintained their relative positioning over the quarter, as AT&T heads the table with 71.4m customers, ahead of Verizon (67.2m), Sprint Nextel (52.8m), T-Mobile (30.8m), Alltel (13.2m), Rogers and Bell Mobility from Canada (7.4m and 6.3m), US Cellular (6.2m), Telus, the third Canadian company (5.7m) and MetroPCS (4.4m). In fact, the only change over the year is that Bell Mobility has edged ahead of USC by about 50k subscribers to take the seventh place on the list. more

Related Tags: t-mobile, rural, metropcs, leap-wireless, sprint-nextel, verizon, alltel, telus, seven, sprint, nextel, bell, USA

Canada to Hit 20 Million Subscribers, But Still Room for Growth

The Canadian market looks set to reach 20 million customers by the end of the year, having added 0.54 million customers in Q3 to hit 19.54 million at the end of the quarter. Traditionally Q4 is the strongest quarter of the year, so it will be surprising if Canada does not break the 20 million barrier in the current quarter. This impending milestone should not be treated with anything like jubilation, however, since the Canadian market is still extremely underpenetrated by reference to its socio-economic peers, with a rate of just 58.4% at the end of Q3. Since Q3 06, penetration has only risen by 4.2pp, and the total market has grown by just 8.7%. more

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

Rogers Wireless and TELUS Mobility Q3 2007 Results

First and third placed Canadian mobile operators, Rogers Wireless and TELUS Mobility, both recorded their best net additions of the year so far in Q3 2007, as is traditionally the case in this seasonally-affected market. TELUS came in very slightly short of what it achieved in the third quarter last year, with 135k net new connections, against 137k 12 months earlier. Rogers did 20% better than it managed last year, with 243k net additions (up from 203k), almost exceeding the recent records set in Q3 2005 and Q4 2006 when it registered 244k new customers. more

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Canada's Rogers keeps gap with Bell to over 1m, as Telus closes up

Canadian market leader Rogers Wireless has maintained its lead over Bell Mobility at over 1m customers, despite being outperformed by its arch-rival in terms of proportionate growth for the first time in five quarters. Quarter on quarter growth at Rogers fell to an all-time low of just 0.7% in Q2 2007 whilst Bell Mobility recovered from its first ever negative quarter in Q1 2007 to post growth of 1.1%. This reduced Rogers' lead over Bell from 1.043m to 1.028m customers, as it moved onto a total of 6.91m to Bell's 5.88m. As the market leader has opened up its lead over Bell over the last couple of years, so third placed TELUS Mobility has closed down the gap on its nearest rival. TELUS trumped both companies with net additions of 128k in Q2 2007 - more than both Rogers and Bell put together - closing the margin between itself and Bell to 612k and taking 30% out of the advantage held by the larger company a year earlier. 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, goldman-sachs, bce

Canada Q3 2006 Market Update

Canadian mobile customers grew 10.9% in the 12 months to 30th September 2006 to reach 17.98m at the end of the period, taking penetration in the market to 54.2%, compared to 49.3% at the end of Q3 last year. GSM was the fastest growing technology with a 23% uplift in customer numbers year on year thanks to its sole Canadian exponent, Rogers. more

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Telus tops research study

Canada's Telus Mobility says that it has earned top spot in a ranking of North America's wireless carriers by N. Moore Capital, Ltd., an independent New York company providing financial analysis of the telecommunications industry. It's the third consecutive quarter Telus Mobility has ranked first. more

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