5G stakeholder collaboration key to healthy telecom industry, says PwC report

TORONTO — Canadian telecom providers spend about 5.3 percentage points more on capital expenditures (as a percentage of revenue) compared to telcos in other countries, due to higher factors of production largely driven by geography, scale and spectrum costs, according to a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada. PwC’s The importance of a healthy telecommunications industry to Canada’s high-tech success report is a follow-up to its study earlier this year, Understanding affordability of consumer mobile wireless services in Canada, which we reported on here. According to the new study, these higher factors of production (cost drivers) require Canadian telcos to have...