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Canada: Wireless Overtakes Local Fixed-Line Service

Catherine McLean writes in The Globe and Mail:

Cellphones and other wireless devices now rule the Canadian telecommunications industry after leapfrogging the old-fashioned local telephone last year.

For the first time, phone companies generated more revenue in 2005 from wireless products than from local service, their traditional bread and butter, according to an annual report by the country's federal communications regulator.

posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2006 07:33:00 PM