Top 10 xSP Companies
The Canadian x Service Provider (xSP) category consists of application, managed, wireless and Internet service provider companies. With 29 xSP companies listed this year, the Canadian xSP category represents just 11.60 per cent of listed Top 250 companies. This group realized strong cumulative growth, increasing revenues by 7.6 per cent to $29.89 billion in 2010. With this revenue increase, the xSP category now represents the highest percentage of Top 250 revenues compared to the other three major Branham300 categories. The top 10 xSP companies appearing on this year’s Branham300 all realized positive growth in 2010, increasing cumulative revenues by 7.88 per cent to $29.38 billion.
The Big Three—Bell, Rogers Communications and TELUS—once again take the top three positions on the Top 10 xSP companies listing, with all realizing single-digit growth in 2010. The Big Three endured a turbulent 2010 as wireless upstarts Mobilicity, Wind Mobile and Public Mobile entered the market and challenged the incumbents in several metropolitan cities. With more established players having already entered the market (Vidéotron) and others planning to do so over the next year (Shaw Communications), combined with the fact that Industry Canada has already made announcements that it plans to hold another wireless spectrum auction in the not-so-distant future, the Canadian wireless market is set to become a lot more competitive.
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