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Articles tagged with: Rogers and Orascom
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
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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