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Articles tagged with: Telus
Canada Industry Min: Switch Cos if Unhappy With Cell Fee Plan
OTTAWA -(Dow Jones)- Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice Friday said customers disgruntled over the decision by two cell-phone companies to charge for incoming text messages should look for alternative service providers. more
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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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Rogers Communications 2Q Net Up; Sees Higher 2nd Half Wireless Costs
Rogers Communications posted higher second-quarter earnings in the absence of a large year-earlier charge, as revenue improved 12%. However, disappointing wireless and cable subscriber results prompted a decline in the company's stock price, particularly since there had been some market speculation ahead of the earnings announcement that the company would report strong result based on its recent track record. more
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Canada Radio Spectrum Auction Finishes - Raises C$4.25 Billion
The Canadian government's auction of wireless spectrum raised a total of C$4.25 billion when it ended after 331 rounds Monday, according to Industry Canada's Web site. more
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Initial Impact of 3G iPhone on BlackBerry Muted: UBS Report
TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Friday's launch of Apple's latest iPhone device had a "limited initial impact" on sales of Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphone, according to a survey by UBS Investment Research. more
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Canadian Operators to Charge for Inbound Text Message
Two of Canada's phone operators, Bell Mobility and telus Mobility have announced that they will start charging some of its subscribers to receive text messages. The changes, to come into effect from next month only affect Prepay subscribers and both operators have set the same C$0.15 per message received. 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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Spectrum auction to liven up Canadian mobile market – we hope
CanadaÃ's mobile spectrum auction is now underway with results due in a few weeksÃ' time. The government has set aside 40MHz for new entrants in order to stimulate competition, and judging from the latest results, this is a much-needed move. more
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Canadian Spectum Auction Passes $2 Billion Mark
Canada's wireless spectrum auction finished last night having passed the CA$2 billion (US$2.01 billion) landmark after two weeks of bidding - and exceeding the estimated CA$1.5 billion which had been thought to be earnt. The auction is expected to continue for another couple of weeks. more
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Bell Mobility, TELUS and MTS Canada Q1 2008 Results
Along with Rogers, Bell and telus are the only national operators in Canada; MTS offers services in Manitoba state only. The three national operators remained fairly close in terms of customer numbers with 1.92m separating them at the end of Q1 08. This has changed little in the past three years, with a total range of 1.67m at the end of Q1 05, 1.72m at the end of Q1 06 and 1.87m a year later. more
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