Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission – Summary report of selected 2001 telecommunications statistics

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is releasing today some preliminary 2001 Canadian telecommunications statistics. These statistics have been compiled by the CRTC as part of its monitoring role and are based on information collected by the CRTC in 2002 from the telecommunications industry.¹

The historical statistics collected in 2002 will also be used to prepare the annual report to the Governor in Council (GIC) pursuant to Order in Council P.C. 2000-1053 on, among other things, the status of competition in Canadian telecommunications markets. The first such report was published in September 2001.

The preliminary information below is intended to provide an indication of the status of the various telecommunications market segments. Additional information and a comprehensive industry analysis will be provided in the second GIC report.

Selected statistics

Revenues

• The following table illustrates the changes in operating revenues in the principal telecom market segments between 2000 and 2001:

Table 1
Segmented telecom revenues*
($ millions)

* Includes the largest telecommunications service providers. Figures for 2000 have been restated to a basis consistent with 2001 figures.

Revenues reported in Table 1 include retail and wholesale revenues, including inter-carrier revenues and excluding revenues from wireline terminal equipment.

• Local and access revenues include revenues for basic local service, optional features, local payphones, local access and contribution.²
• Long distance revenues encompass wireline and payphone long distance voice revenues.
• Mobile and paging revenues include basic voice packages, mobile long distance, paging, terminal equipment, interconnection and roaming revenues.
• Internet revenues represent Internet applications, access and transport revenues, including e-mail and Web-related revenues.
• Data, private line and other revenues include intra-city and inter-city private line, non-Internet data, and other revenues.

Long distance

• The changes in wireline long distance originating minutes and long distance revenues between 2000 and 2001 are presented in the following three tables, disaggregated between incumbent telephone companies and competitors.³ The information is presented for both residential and business lines, as well as in total:

Table 2
Total long distance minutes*
(billions)

* Includes retail wireline domestic, Canada-U.S., international and toll-free originating long distance minutes for the largest telecommunications service providers.

Table 3
Total long distance minutes*
(percentages)

* Includes retail wireline domestic, Canada-U.S., international and toll-free originating long distance minutes for the largest telecommunications service providers.

Table 4
Total long distance revenues*
(percentages)

* Includes retail wireline domestic, Canada-U.S., international and toll-free long distance revenues for the largest telecommunications service providers. Includes inter-carrier revenues.

Local and access

• The following tables illustrate the changes in local lines⁴ and wireline local and access revenues between 2000 and 2001, segmented between incumbent telephone companies and competitors. The information is presented for both residential and business lines, as well as in total:

Table 5
Total local lines*
(000s)

* Includes the largest telecommunications service providers, as well as regional service providers (e.g., Bragg Communications (operating as EastLink), Videotron, Futureway Communications and Axxent).

Table 6
Total local lines*
(percentages)

* Includes the largest telecommunications service providers, as well as regional service providers (e.g., Bragg Communications (operating as EastLink), Videotron, Futureway Communications and Axxent).

Table 7
Total local and access revenues*
(percentages)

* Includes the largest telecommunications service providers, as well as regional service providers (e.g., Bragg Communications (operating as EastLink), Videotron, Futureway Communications and Axxent). Includes inter-carrier revenues, excludes contribution.

Mobile

• Total mobile subscribers increased by 22% during 2001, from 8.8 million to 10.7 million subscribers.
  
• The average revenue per unit from mobile services decreased during 2001, from $49 per month to $48 per month.

Financial indicators

• The following table provides some key financial indicators for 2000 and 2001 for the incumbent telephone companies and competitors, together with their affiliates for whom the majority of revenues are derived from telecommunications activities. EBITDA refers to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Table 8
Selected financial indicators*
($ billions)

* Includes the largest companies providing primarily telecommunications services. Includes inter-carrier revenues and revenues from wireline voice terminal equipment. Capital expenditures include fees paid to Industry Canada for spectrum.

Footnotes

¹ Unless otherwise indicated, the preliminary statistics summarize information reported by the largest telecommunications service providers and their affiliates. The companies included are Bell Canada, TELUS, Aliant Telecom, MTS, SaskTel, AT&T Canada, Call-Net, GT Group Telecom, Microcell, Primus and Rogers Wireless. [return]

² Contribution refers to payments from eligible telecommunications service providers to subsidize the cost of residential local wireline service in rural and remote areas. [return]

³ Incumbent refers to the telephone companies that provided telecommunications services prior to the introduction of competition, and includes out-of-territory affiliates of the incumbents. Competitor refers to providers of telecommunications services who are not incumbent service providers. [return]

⁴ Local lines include retail and wholesale lines, including Centrex, that are either owned or leased. [return]

Date Modified: 2002-11-05

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