Synopsis
The major operators in the Canadian telecommunications are broadly categorised as either incumbents or competitors. Incumbents are the telephone companies that provided telecom services on a regional monopoly basis prior to the introduction of competition, and include the out-of-territory affiliates of the incumbents. There are a number of categories of competitors, with most of the recent competition coming from the cable sector in the form of rapidly expanding cable telephony and VoIP services. This report provides highlights of the sector and outlines the major activities of some the largest incumbents (Bell, TELUS, MTS Allstream and SaskTel) and CLECs (Rogers, Primus and Look) together with their recent key financial data and operating statistics.