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Articles tagged with: Rogers and Bell
Canada Q1 2009 - Even more sluggish than usual
Canadian mobile penetration continued to languish below 65% in the first quarter of 2009, with an end-quarter rate of 64.6%. This was up 4.0pp year on year but just 0.4pp in the quarter. As this suggests, Q1 09 saw less than impressive growth, with just 176.6k net additions. This was only the third quarter in the past 10 years to see sub-200k growth. Given that this poor performance comes on the back of the first Q4 since 1990 not to record the peak growth of the year, the Canadian market seems to have been hit harder than most by the global economic downturn. more
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New Mobile Payment Service Launched in Canada
Canadian mobile payment vendor, EnStream has launched a money transfer service, Zoompass that gives customers a fast and convenient way to send and receive money securely using their mobile phone. EnStream is jointly owned by Bell Canada, rogers and Telus - Canada's three leading wireless operators. more
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Twitter Goes Wireless with Canada's Rogers
Canada's rogers Wireless has followed Bell Canada in resuming SMS services for the Twitter micro-blogging platform. The feature comes at no additional cost for customers on text messaging plans. more
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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 OrascomÃ's network - scheduled for spring 2009 - will energise what is a decidedly sluggish market. more
Related Tags: arpu, mts, telus, sasktel, Canada
No sign of wireless downturn in North America yet
Independent Analyst Comment - Steven Hartley, Senior Analyst at Ovum
North America was the first region to be affected by the current economic
crisis and, to date, has been the hardest hit. Although the full effects of the
downturn are yet to be felt, the wireless operatorsÃ' results in the third
quarter reflect how mobile services have become indispensable and two-year
contracts are protecting the sector in the region. Mobile telecom remains on
track to grow in the region in 2009.
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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
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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-mobility, 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
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Canada's Two CDMA Networks Planning a Migration to WCDMA
Two of Canada's mobile network operators, Bell and Telus are reported to be planning a joint network upgrade which would allow them to offer services based on a WCDMA platform. Both companies currently operate a CDMA network and there have been rumours for the past few months that both were individually looking at a migration to WCDMA. more
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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
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