Top 10 xSP Companies   |  March 18, 2008  

 

 

The x Service Provider (xSP) category includes application, managed, wireless and Internet service provider companies. With 33 firms, this category has the least representation in the Top 250 Canadian companies listing, accounting for just 13.2 per cent of firms listed. However, the 33 xSP organizations contribute 37.13 per cent of the Top 250 total revenues, with $23.9 billion in combined revenues, up from $21.2 billion generated by last year’s xSP firms. The Top 10 xSP firms generated a combined $23.3 billion in revenues in fiscal 2007.

Clearly, this is a sector limited to a small number of very large players and many smaller players. All players in last year’s Top 10 reappear in 2007, with the exception of Emergis which shifted to the Software category this year upon an assessment of its business focus. The top four companies remain unchanged since last year, with BCE, TELUS, Rogers Wireless Communications and Shaw Communications, ranked in that order. Meanwhile, SaskTel (mobility and Internet) has jumped two spaces to surge ahead of MTS Allstream (wireless and data) and Rogers Communications (ISP), gaining the final space in the top five.

Of the companies listed in this year’s Top 10, Cogeco Cable once again had the highest year-over-year revenue growth at 59.92 per cent, up from last year’s reported figure of 30 per cent growth. Shaw Communications was the only other company in the Top 10 to realize revenue growth of more than 20 per cent.

The landscape of the xSP sector is scheduled to change in 2008 with the availability of an additional 105 MHz of spectrum, intended to increase competition in the wireless industry. Jim Prentice, Canadian Minister of Industry, announced in 2007 that the Government of Canada will be setting aside spectrum of airwaves for auction, with a designated 40 per cent for new entrants and 60 per cent to existing competitors.


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