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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Executive Summary
ABOUT ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC.
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS IS ONE OF CANADA’S LEADING DIVERSIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA COMPANIES.
We provide a broad range of services to individual consumers and
businesses: wireless voice and data communications, high-speed
Internet, cable television, cable telephony, wired telecom and data
networking services. We also provide services in television and radio
broadcasting, multi-platform shopping, sports media and
entertainment, digital media, consumer trade publications and
professional publications.
Almost all of our operations and sales are in Canada. We have a highly
skilled and diversified workforce of approximately 27,000 employees.
Our head-office is in Toronto, Ontario and we have numerous offices
across Canada.
FOUR BUSINESS SEGMENTS
We report our results of operations in four segments. Each segment
and the nature of its business are as follows:
Segment Principal activities
Wireless Wireless telecommunications operations for
Canadian consumers and businesses
Cable Cable telecommunications operations, including
Internet, television and telephony (phone) for
Canadian consumers and businesses
Business
Solutions
Network connectivity through our fibre network and
data centre assets to support a range of voice, data,
networking, hosting and cloud-based services for
small, medium and large Canadian businesses,
governments, and on a wholesale basis to other
telecommunications providers
Media A diversified portfolio of media properties,
including television and radio broadcasting,
specialty channels, digital media, multi-platform
shopping, publishing, and sports media and
entertainment
$12.9
BILLION
(%)
2014 OPERATING REVENUE BY SEGMENT
WIRELESS 56%
CABLE 27%
MEDIA 14%
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS 3%
(%)
2014 ADJUSTED OPERATING PROFIT BY SEGMENT
WIRELESS 63%
CABLE 32%
MEDIA 3%
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS 2%
$5.0
BILLION
26 ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2014 ANNUAL REPORT