Abstract
This IDC study is the sixth edition of IDC Canada' s popular annual guide to the
Canadian telecommunications services sector.
New competitors continued to emerge and promise yet more upheaval in the C$36.6
billion-a-year Canadian communications landscape.
"Established telecom services providers are coming under siege," says Lawrence
Surtees, vice president of Communications Research and principal analyst at IDC
Canada Ltd. "As the lines between telecom and cable operators blurred in 2006,
incumbent telecoms also face a prospective onslaught from the Googazon complex
of global online search giants and stronger, consolidated hydro telecoms."