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CRTC Communications Monitoring Report
2011
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6.0 International perspective 6.1 How Canada compares internationally
This section provides a statistical comparative perspective of Canada inthe context of the international communications landscape, including a global view of pricing, revenues, and other metrics within the communications industry sectors of wireline, wireless, broadband, radio, and television services. In 2010, revenues from Canadian telecommunications services represented less than 3% of global telecommunications revenues. Canada’s portion of North Americantelecommunications revenues was approximately 10%.

Service pricing – Individual services and bundled rates
Service providers in the telecommunications and broadcasting industries continued to offer traditional core business services and to package communications services into various bundles. These bundles combine some or all of the following: fixed-line voice telephony services, mobile wirelessservices, broadband Internet access via both fixed and mobile technologies, and television and video services. Price comparisons between Canada and five selected foreign jurisdictions are contained in Table 6.1.1.

Statistical information – International comparisons
Pricing – Communications services Table 6.1.1 International pricing (average price ($)1 per month)
Canada United States United KingdomWireline service Level 1 (low-volume use) Level 2 (average use) Level 3 (high-volume use) Wireless service Level 1 (basic user) Level 2 (average user) Level 3 (premium user) Broadband (fixed technology) Level 1 (≈1.5 Mbps, 2 GB/month2 ) Level 2 (1.5-9 Mbps, 10 Level 3 (10-20 Mbps, 30 GB/month2 ) GB/month2 ) 35 50 63 78 ≈30 Mbps 51 65 80 95 ≈26 Mbps n/a 41 40 50 ≈35 Mbps 28 47 66 30 57 60 43 54 5534 51 100 33 69 139 19 33 64 26 75 101 21 37 74 25 49 120 32 50 60 45 74 80 34 46 61 38 55 68 46 73 82 30 59 92 France Australia Japan

Level 4 (20+ Mbps, 50 average advertised download speed Mobile Internet (3G technology)

GB/month2 );

50 67 60 ≈50 Mbps 100 Mbps ≈40 Mbps

≥1.5 Mbps, ≥2 GB/month data usage 3 Bundled services Wireline-Wireless-Broadband

52 134

72 183 174

24 9599

43 127 70

27 145 139

69 150 138

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Wireline-Wireless-Broadband-DTV 168 238 132 148 179 193

1. Canadian dollars shown have been converted from local currencies and adjusted forpurchasing power parity differences across the countries. 2. Some of the broadband plans offered in Canada, the UK, and Australia had data usage caps; plans sampled from the US, France, and Japan had no monthly data usage restrictions during the data collection period of this study. 3. Most of the mobile Internet access plans from all six countries surveyed had applicable monthly data usage caps.Source: Price comparison study conducted during the first quarter of 2011 by Wall Communications Inc.; see Appendix 4 for a summary of the assumptions and methodology used.

Revenues – Communications services Figure 6.1.1 Telecommunications revenues, by market sector, 2010 Canada Globally
Source: IDATE

Figure 6.1.2 Global

telecommunications retail revenues, by region, 2010

Canadiandollars shown have been converted based IMF 2009 year average exchange rates. Source: IDATE

Figure 6.1.3 Global telecommunications retail revenues, by market sector, 2006–2010
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Source: IDATE

Figure 6.1.4 Average monthly...