IT MUST BE BOTH EXHILARATING and frightening for Canadian telcos to witness what's happening in the consumer markets overseas. Since the North American industry agrees that Europe – especially the U.K. – are a few years ahead of us when it comes to wireless penetration and usage, market conditions there are seen as frightening in terms of what's happening to the shrinking land line business – and exhilarating because of the growth in wireless and broadband. Ofcom, the U.K.'s Office of Communications, last week published its annual report on the state of the media and telecom industry (not unlike our...
