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Hostile Environment Plays Havoc With Canada's Fixed-Line
October 2006 | BMI ViewSorry, you must be a subscriber to view this article in full. If you are a subscriber please login.
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BMI has made revisions to our forecasts for Canada's fixed-line sector in light of a sharper than anticipated fall in the number of fixed-lines in service in H106. If the momentum witnessed in the first half of the year continues, we expect the market could contract by as much as 7% in 2006, bringing penetration to below 60%. We currently forecast that fixed penetration will dip to just below 50% in 2010. We are maintaining forecasts for the mobile market, expecting continued solid but unexceptional growth will raise penetration to just under 80% by 2010. We anticipate that 2006 will