In this Market Spotlight, we’re homing in on Canada and the U.S.A. — two big markets, both with enough high-level economic and telecom data, to frame some current telecom trends. The limited country coverage on this Spotlight, though, leaves us to consider a very brief bit of summary data, before plunging into the hot topic du jour: mobile video.

There is indeed a link between Table 1 and the choice of mobile video, and it’s a rather important one for the future of North American telecom. Americans outnumber Canadians by about 10 to 1, and telecom service revenues are in roughly the same proportion: Pyramid Research estimates that Canada spent nearly $39 billion on telecom services in 2008, representing less than 10 percent of North American communications services revenues. So, from this point of view, the U.S. pretty much is North America.

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