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With the aid of Rogers’ Q2 financial report and some trusty pie chart skills, some folks at Wireless North put together the numbers which constitute Rogers’ $75 average monthly revenue per user.
General overhead, shiny offices, salaries etc: $30
Cost of sales (Direct costs, electricity bill for those towers etc.): $7.69
Marketing (You might have seen some): $7.44
Depreciation (Infrastructure cost of the network): $6.06
Debt (interest on loans for past spectrum auctions and investments): $3.55
Profit (before taxes): $27.89
Yep, a little over a third of that monthly bill goes right into Ted’s coffers. Just a friendly reminder before anyone gets too angry at Telus or Bell for charging for incoming SMS messages.
(Wireless North via MobileSyrup)
Rogers has over 7 million customers
7,000,000 x $27 = 189,000,000
Don’t count depreciation; Non-cash charges are irrelevant, which only adds to the cash in their coffers at year end. Hurray.
Last time I checked my rogers bill (two minutes ago) it didn’t look like that chart.
My bill looked like:
Base plan
wireless add-ons
911 emergency service access fee
Gov’t 911 Fee
service access fee
taxes
I don’t see that chart anywhere on my bill.