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Largest Telecom Service Providers Public Companies in Canada
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
BCE, Rogers, TELUS, Quebecor and Cogeco Communications.
 | BCE provides wireless, broadband, television, and landline phone services in Canada. It is one of the Big Three national wireless carriers, with over 10 million customers constituting about 30% of the market. It is also the incumbent local exchange carrier—the legacy telephone provider—throughout much of the eastern half of Canada, including in the most populous Canadian provinces: Ontario and Quebec. BCE has a media segment that holds television, radio, and digital media assets. BCE licenses the Canadian rights to HBO Max and Starz. | $25 | +12% | $23B | $55B | 3.1x | 5.2x | ||
| Rogers Communications is the largest wireless service provider in Canada with more than 11 million subscribers, equating to one-third of the total Canadian market. Rogers' wireless business accounts for more than half of total revenue and has been growing at a higher rate than other segments. The cable segment, which provides about 38% of total revenue after acquiring Shaw, offers home internet, television, and landline phone service to consumers and businesses. Remaining sales come from Rogers' media unit, which owns and operates various television and radio stations and major Toronto sports franchises, including the Blue Jays, Maple Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC, and Argonauts. | $38 | +28% | $21B | $52B | 3.3x | 4.9x | ||
| Telus is one of the Big Three wireless service providers in Canada, with over 10 million mobile phone subscribers nationwide constituting almost 30% of the total market. It is the incumbent local exchange carrier in the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, where it provides internet, television, and landline phone services. It also has a small wireline presence in eastern Quebec. Mostly because of recent acquisitions, more than 20% of Telus’ sales now come from nontelecom businesses, most notably in the international business services, health, security, and agriculture industries. The firm has a 55% economic stake in Telus International. | $13 | -21% | $20B | $41B | 2.7x | 7.6x | ||
| Quebecor primarily provides telecom services in Quebec, where it has roughly 1.7 million internet subscribers—equating to a penetration rate of about 50% in its footprint—and over 3 million mobile subscribers, including more than 20% wireless market share in Quebec. With the acquisition of Freedom Mobile in April 2023, Quebecor also has more than 1 million mobile subscribers in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. Quebecor also offers a French-language subscription video-on-demand service and has a media segment that owns and operates television stations, publishes newspapers and magazines, and produces and distributes films and television shows. A very small portion of Quebecor’s business engages in live event production and promotion and owns live-event venues. | $49 | +64% | $11B | $16B | 4.0x | 9.6x | ||
| Cogeco Communications is a telecom service provider in Canada and the US, specifically in rural and suburban geographies. It offers wireline services such as broadband internet, TV, and landline phone services. In Canada, the firm operates under its Cogeco Connexion and Oxio brands, reaching roughly 2.1 million homes and businesses throughout Ontario and Quebec. In the US, Cogeco operates under its Breezeline brand throughout the East Coast, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, reaching 1.8 million homes and businesses. Cogeco is expanding its offerings to include consumer wireless services, operating as a mobile virtual network operator. | $47 | -9% | $2B | $5B | 2.5x | 5.1x | ||
| Cogeco Inc is a telecommunications company. The company has two operating segments: Canadian telecommunications, American telecommunications. The Canadian and American telecommunications segments provide a wide range of Internet, video, and telephony services to residential customers, as well as business services across their coverage areas. Cogeco Connexion carries out the Canadian telecommunications segment activities in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and the American telecommunications segment activities are carried out by Atlantic Broadband in 12 states. It derives maximum revenue from Canadian telecommunications segment. | $46 | -5% | $440M | $4B | 1.8x | 3.7x | ||
| Tucows Inc is a corporate parent, allocating capital and providing efficient shared services to its three businesses. The Company offers Mobile Service Enabler (MSE) solutions, as well as professional services to other retail mobile providers. The Company is also a distributor of Internet services, including domain name registration, digital certificates, and email. It provides these services through an Internet-based distribution network of Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies, and other providers of Internet services to end-users. It operates in three segments: Ting, Wavelo, and Tucows Domains. It generates the majority of its revenue from Tucows Domains. Geographically company operates in USA, Canada and Europe. | $15 | -25% | $164M | $673M | 1.7x | 18.6x | ||
| Median | $38 | -5% | $11B | $16B | 2.7x | 5.2x |
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