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TORONTO — Nadir Mohamed, chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc., said Tuesday there has been no let-up of the competitive intensity within the $18-billion mobile market, comments foreshadowing perhaps further erosion in the financial performance of the country’s largest wireless operator.

Led by double-digit declines in mobile voice revenues, Rogers has experienced successive quarterly drops in the average monthly amount the company collects per user, or ARPU — the metric used by analysts and investors to gauge how well a carrier is doing.

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Rogers wireless customers paid an average of $61.79/month in the third quarter, down 4% from the prior-year period and a fall mirroring a similar one in the previous quarter.

With new entrants such as Wind Mobile exerting pricing pressure in markets across the country, Mr. Mohamed suggested the strain will go on.

“The real question is are we seeing stability,” the executive said during a UBS conference in New York. To that end, “I think voice revenue will continue to be under pressure.”