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The 2003 Telecom Survey consists of a two step process. The
first step involved the issuance of the Reporting Entity Profile
Forms on 21 February 2003, while the second step is the issuance
Sector Data Forms on 2 April 2003.
The Reporting Entity Profile Forms were to be completed by each
legal entity that supplied one of several telecommunications-related
services, products, and/or facilities in Canada on a commercial
basis at any point during 2002. These services and products are
identified and detailed in Form 03-120.
The responses to the Reporting Entity Profile Forms were used
to determine which Sector Data Forms each entity will be required
to complete by 15 May 2003. These forms are being issued on 2
April 2003. Each reporting entity is being notified by e-mail
and through Canada Post which specific Sector Data Forms they
are to complete.
A separate set of forms should be filed for each legal entity;
reporting may not be consolidated across companies, even where
one company holds a majority stake in another. Where the legal
entity in existence on 31 December 2002 is partly formed of merged
companies, survey responses should include combined data for all
predecessor companies for the entire year.
In the 15 May 2003 filings each reporting entity must report
using the Entity ID number assigned to it by the CRTC and included
in the Commission letters to each entity dated 21 February 2003
and 2 April 2003.
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Forms for 2002 are divided into two
sets. The first set, Reporting Entity Profile Forms, is to be
submitted by 3 March 2003. All reporting entities are to submit
these forms. The second set of forms is the Sector Data Forms.
These forms are being issued on 2 April 2003 and are to be submitted
by 15 May 2003. The forms that each entity is required to submit
will depend upon the responses submitted on the Reporting Entity
Profile Forms.
Reporting Entity Profile Forms: Four forms were
to be returned by 3 March 2003. These forms have several broad
purposes. They establish each reporting entity's contact details
and corporate ties to other reporting entities, they provide a
basic statement of telecommunications activity areas, and they
assign reporting responsibility.
Forms: 03-1XX-EN.xls.
Sector Data Forms: These forms are divided into
six market sectors (Data and Private Line, Internet, Local &
Access, Long Distance, Mobile & Paging and Payphone), an administration
sector and a financial sector. Each of these sectors consists
of a series of one or more forms. These sectors, and their areas
of focus are:
2XX Administration – focuses on response comments and Data
source by work unit.
3XX Financial - focuses on the Income statement, Balance Sheet,
operating revenues, intercarrier expenses and capital expenditures.
4XX Data and Private Line - focuses on short-haul capacity, long-haul
capacity and Data Link.
5XX Internet - focuses on Internet access, Internet transport,
E-mail services and Web hosting.
6XX Local & Access - focuses on Fixed voice service, ISDN
and loops.
7XX Long Distance - focuses on the retail and wholesale markets.
8XX Mobile and Paging - focuses on the voice and data markets;
and
9XX Payphone - focuses on voice and pay-per-use internet.
Using the information provided by the entities on the Reporting
Entity Profile Forms, we have stratified the entities and the
information required into the following reporting categories:
A. Entities required to fill out the Simplified Forms
– reporting entities who:
i) Managed telecommunications facilities (as reported in Form
03-121), or are LECs, and earned less than $10 million in telecommunications
revenues in 2002, or
ii) earned between $2 million and $10 million in telecommunications
revenues in 2002.
B. Entities required to fill out the Standard Data Forms
– all reporting entities who earned $10 million or more
in telecommunications revenues in 2002.
Entities who do not meet the above criteria are not required
to submit Data Forms.
All forms may be downloaded from the forms page. For convenience,
the Simplified Forms and the Standard Forms are available to be
downloaded separately for those entities that require them.
Completed forms should be submitted either by e-mail, to telinfo_form@crtc.gc.ca,
or on diskette or paper, to Telecom Monitoring, CRTC, Ottawa,
Ontario, K1A 0N2 (courier: 1 Promenade du Portage, Hull, Québec,
J8X 4B1).
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Estimates: Where precise data are not available or cannot be
obtained, use best estimates. If estimates are used, note the
methodology used on Form 03-210, making appropriate reference
to the form and cell number.
Form integrity: Each form includes shaded and non-shaded areas.
Please provide the data requested in the shaded areas only: do
not alter forms by adding, deleting, merging, or otherwise manipulating
individual cells or worksheets.
Period: Complete each form for year-end 31 December 2002 except
as otherwise noted. Information should be provided for the reporting
company, including any merged companies.
Revenues: Please report revenues net of discounts, returns or
allowances, promotional offers, and rebates, and excluding federal
or provincial taxes collected for remittance to a government agency
(sales and excise tax, GST, PST, HST, etc.). Goods and services
denominated in foreign currency should be translated to Canadian
dollars at the exchange rate which prevailed at that time.
Scalors: Dollar amounts should be reported in units. Bandwidth
amounts should be reported in millions of bits per second (Mbps).
Traffic (minutes), lines, subscriptions, and accounts should be
reported in units. All other measures should be reported in unscaled
units, except where otherwise specified.
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