Telecommunications in Canada: State of the Marketplace

摘要

Canada's telecommunications industry has performed strongly, particularly over the last few years. Factoring in services revenues derived from local and access, long distance, data and private line, Internet, mobile, and paging services, the Canadian Radio-television Commission (CRTC) says that total telecommunications service revenues in 2001 totaled $32 billion, up from $24.9 billion in 1998. While looking at revenue is one way to assess the vitality of the nation's telecom industry, another means of doing so is to look at the state of the marketplace via four key indicators: competition, broadband deployment, wireless use, and Internet use. The major players in Canada's telecommunications sector have made progress in the aforementioned areas, and this progress will continue to shape the industry.