Thursday, July 26, 2007
State of Canadian telecom: 2006
The CRTC has released its annual report [
pdf] on the state of Canadian telecommunications.In 2000, the government requested that the Commission report annually over a five-year period on the status of competition in the Canadian telecommunications industry. The CRTC decided to continue the annual report beyond the first 5 years in order to allow interested parties to stay informed about the state of the Canadian telecommunications industry.
Some of the quick highlights:
- Total telecommunications revenues increased by 4.5%, rising to $36.1 billion in 2006. Almost half of industry revenues now comes from cellular and internet services.
- Competitors captured 38% of total revenues, an increase of 3% from the previous year. Overall, the revenues of competitors increased by 12% to $13.7 billion, mainly due to the cable companies recording a 17% growth in revenues.
- The cellular telephone market remained the largest and fastest growing sector in the industry. Revenues grew by 15% to $12.7 billion in 2006. Cellular telephone revenues accounted for 35% of the total telecommunications revenues, up from 23% in 2005. Cellular telephones are now in more than two thirds of Canadian households.
- 60% of all households now have high-speed Internet access, up from 51% in 2005. Canada remained number one in the G8 with respect to broadband adoption.
- Capital expenditures rose by nearly 25% to $6.9 billion.
I'm sure I will be writing more as I go through the report.
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 7/26/2007 04:48:00 PM 
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