Wireless newcomers to capture nearly a quarter of the market by 2015, says report

TORONTO – In seven years, newcomers to the wireless game in Canada will have about 8.2 million Canadian wireless subscribers (about 24% of the market), says a new report published Tuesday by Toronto’s Convergence Consulting Group. And just about all of those subs will be tied to three big new wireless players, Globalive, Shaw Communications and Videotron. At the end of 2015, those three companies “will each have a 7% share,” says the report. Approximately 75% of new entrant subscribers will be consumer postpaid. Those customers currently comprise 53% of all Canadian wireless subscribers, but the company estimates that will...