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Annual Telecommunications Survey

[Processes] [Due dates] [Significant changes] [Forms]

This survey is to be completed by all telecommunications entities in Canada that have been classified as Group 1 as described in Telecom Circular CRTC 2005-4. Such entities are to use the CRTC's web-based Data Collection System (DCS) to submit their data.

If your entity is a Group 1 entity, has provided telecommunications services in Canada at any point during the previous year and has not received a request to submit data, please contact us for guidance using On-line form.

Authority

This survey is conducted under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada 1985, Chapter S-19, and under the authority of the Telecommunications Act, Section 37 and the Broadcasting Act. Each form indicates the authority or authorities that apply.

Processes

  • Annual telecommunications data collection
  • Contribution
  • Telecommunications Fees

Due date(s)

  • 1 March 2024 – Reporting entity profile - Telecommunications
  • 31 March 2024 – All other forms

Form assignment

The forms are assigned based on the details captured in last year’s survey, as well as other information collected as part of the Commission’s monitoring activities.

Significant changes

A number of changes have been made to the Annual Telecommunications Survey forms to simplify reporting requirements or to capture new information due to changes in the telecommunications industry. Below is a list of significant changes:

Short forms for smaller entities

Forms 200, 201, and 202

  • These forms have been modified to collect details on wholesale fibre (FTTP).

Data link and private line forms

Forms 231, 231p, 241, and 241p

  • Forms 231 (Data Link operating revenues) and 241 (Private Line operating revenues) have been combined and streamlined into form 231. As a result, terminal equipment rental and sales are no longer required to be reported separately and form 241 has been discontinued.
  • The corresponding provincial forms 231p, 241p have also been combined and streamlined. Data Link and Private Lines will now be reported together and form 241p has been discontinued.

Internet forms

Forms 252 and 253

  • These forms have been modified to collect details on wholesale fibre (FTTP).

Mobile and paging forms

Forms 272

  • This is a new mobile form to collect information such as mobile phone revenue and subscriber from companies who intend to operate within this sector as a MVNO.

Supplemental forms

Form 296

  • Residential customers with multiple telecommunications services form has been discontinued and will no longer be a reporting requirement in the annual telecommunications survey.

List of survey forms

National public alerting system form

  • 1412 – Wireless public alerting

REP Reporting entity profile forms

  • REP-T - Reporting entity profile - Telecommunications
  • REP-T1 - Reporting entity profile - Telecommunications

10x Financial forms

  • 101 - Income statement
  • 101e - Operating expenses by province and territory
  • 101p - Operating revenues and expenses by province and territory
  • 104 - Fixed assets and capital expenditures
  • 104p - Fixed assets and capital expenditures by province and territory
  • 107 - Price regulated services
  • 109 - Wholesale service revenues
  • 109p - Wholesale service revenues by province and territory

20x Short forms for smaller entities

  • 200 - Telecommunications - revenues, subscribers, local lines and minutes
  • 200p - Operating revenues salaries, wages and benefits by province and territory
  • 201 - Telecommunications - revenues details
  • 202 - Telecommunications - quantities and validation

21x Local and access forms

  • 211 - Local and access operating revenues
  • 211p - Local and access operating revenues by province and territory
  • 212 - Local and access lines

22x Long distance form

  • 223p - Long distance wireline operating revenues and minutes by province and territory

23x Data link and private line forms

  • 231 - Data link and private line operating revenues
  • 231p - Data link and private line operating revenues by province and territory

25x Internet forms

  • 252 - Internet operating revenues
  • 253 - Internet access subscriptions
  • 253c - Residential broadband Internet subscriptions by CMA
  • 253p - Internet operating revenues and access subscriptions by province and territory
  • 255 - Residential Internet access high-speed plans
  • 255s - Residential Internet access high-speed plans
  • 258 - Residential broadband Internet subscribers by province and territory
  • 259 - Wholesale access ancillary revenues and lines

26x Broadcast distribution form

  • 260 - Broadcast distribution undertaking operating revenues and subscribers by province and territory

27x / 28x Mobile and paging forms

  • 270 - Mobile wireless operating revenues and demand quantities
  • 271 - Mobile and paging operating revenues, demand quantities and churn rates
  • 271f - Flanker brand details
  • 272 – MVNO mobile phone revenues and subscribers
  • 273 - Mobile voice minutes
  • 275p - Mobile phone, total mobile and paging operating revenues and subscriptions by province and territory
  • 275pf - Flanker brand - Total mobile phone and mobile revenues and subscriptions by province and territory
  • 277 - Mobile data revenues and traffic
  • 277p - Mobile data revenues and traffic by province and territory
  • 279 - Mobile subscriptions by plan
  • 279p - Mobile phone plans with data subscriptions by province and territory
  • 280 - Mobile roaming revenues and traffic
  • 281 - Wireless devices and contract durations
  • 284 - M2M mobile communication services
  • 286 - Wireless roaming revenues by carrier
  • 287 - Wireless roaming usage by carrier
  • 288 - Mobile phone subscribers by service basket

29x Supplemental forms

  • 291 - Pay telephone revenues and quantities

60x Contribution collection mechanism (CCM) forms

  • 601 - Contribution - Annual revenue report
  • 602 - Contribution - Non-Canadian revenue breakdown
  • 603 - Contribution - Canadian non-telecommunications revenue breakdown
  • 604 - Contribution - Inter-carrier payment breakdown
  • 605 - Contribution - Bundled non-contribution-eligible revenue breakdown

70x Telecommunications fees form

  • 702 - Telecommunications Fees - Invoicing Information
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