Cartt.ca Interview: Zainul Mawji, EVP home solutions, Telus

Why Telus is dumping copper, quickly By Greg O’Brien EDMONTON – Telus is spending big over the next couple of years to push fibre optics more deeply into its network than ever before, perhaps even more deeply than most other telcos around the world. Zainul Mawji, the company’s executive vice-president home solutions (and one of the highest-ranking women in Canadian telecom), has been at the tip of the company’s fibre spear since it began its PureFibre push in 2013. “I was employee number two on that particular foray in our organization,” she told Cartt.ca in a late May interview. “We...