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.

1. Synopsis
 2. Key highlights
 3. Major ILECs
 3.1 Overview
 3.2 Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE)
 3.2.1 Bell Canada
 3.2.2 Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (Bell Aliant)
 3.3 TELUS Corporation
 3.3.1 Network
 3.3.2 Company history
 3.4 MTS Allstream
 3.5 Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel)
 3.6 VSNL International Canada (Formerly Teleglobe)
 3.6.1 Company history
 4. CLECs and other operators
 4.1 Overview
 4.2 Rogers Communications
 4.2.1 Rogers Cable
 4.2.2 Rogers Wireless
 4.2.3 Rogers Media
 4.2.4 Fido Solutions
 4.2.5 FCI Broadband
 4.3 Primus Telecommunications Canada
 4.4 Look Communications
 5. Related reports
 Table 3 – BCE operating revenue, net profit, CAPEX and subscribers – 2008
 Table 4 – BCE revenue summary - 2004 - 2008
 Table 5 – Bell Canada operating statistics per market segment – 2007 - 2008
 Table 6 – Bell Canada wireless and video ARPU and churn – 2007 - 2008
 Table 7 – Bell Aliant operating results and annual change – 2007 - 2008
 Table 8 – Bell Aliant operating revenue and annual change per market segment – 2007 - 2008
 Table 9 – TELUS operating revenue, net profit, CAPEX and subscribers – 2004 - 2008
 Table 10 – TELUS wireless ARPU and Churn – 2004 - 2008
 Table 11 – TELUS operating results and annual change per market segment – 2007 - 2008
 Table 12 – MTS Allstream operating revenue, CAPEX, customers & annual change – 2007 - 2008
 Table 13 – MTS Allstream operating revenues and annual change by division – 2007 - 2008
 Table 14 – MTS Allstream wireless monthly ARPU – 2007 - 2008
 Table 15 – SaskTel operating revenue, net income, CAPEX and annual change – 2007 - 2008
 Table 16 – SaskTel operating results – 2007- 2008
 Table 17 – SaskTel wireless monthly ARPU – 2004 - 2008
 Table 18 – Rogers Communications operating revenue & profit, subscribers and annual change – 2007 - 2008
 Table 19 – Rogers Cable revenue, profit, CAPEX, stores and subscribers – 2002 - 2008
 Table 20 – Rogers Wireless revenue, profit, CAPEX, subscribers and coverage – 2002 - 2008
 Table 21 – Rogers Wireless pre and postpaid subscribers, churn, ARPU and annual change – 2007 - 2008
 Table 22 – Rogers Media revenue, operating profit and CAPEX – 2002 - 2008