Region in Focus: North America, Q2 2019

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This edition of the Region in Focus provides targeted analysis of and insight into the North America region. Here, we include market analysis for the US, Canada and the Caribbean. We cover financial performance to Q2 2019 and examine the strong start to 2019 made by US operators. We also explore how unlimited data plans threaten to destabilise the trend of strong mobile service revenue growth in Canada and the challenges around the affordability of services in the Caribbean.
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