VANCOUVER – The Canadian Football League has teamed up with Telus to create a 100th anniversary replica Grey Cup, made from pennies, called The Fan Cup. Cast from the copper of Canadian pennies, The Fan Cup will be engraved with the names of thousands of CFL fans from across Canada and live inside The Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a symbol of appreciation for a century of loyal fan support.
Fans will create The Fan Cup trophy during The Grey Cup 100 Tour by using a custom-built Telus Penny Press to make their own 100th Grey Cup Game collectable…
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TORONTO – Telus has announced a five-year agreement with Free The Children as national co-title sponsor of We Day, a series of events held across Canada to inspire youth to create change in their communities and around the world. In addition to its sponsorship, Telus is launching a Phones for Good campaign on September 7, giving $25 from the sale of every Samsung Galaxy SIII or Samsung Ace Q to Free the Children.
Telus is also giving young Canadians the opportunity to attend the We Day event in their city through a special Earn Your Way to We Day initiative….
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VANCOUVER and NEW YORK – Telus is vowing to launch legal proceedings to quash a plan by U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital to hold its own shareholder meeting hours before the shareholder meeting that Telus has scheduled.
Earlier this month, Telus called a court-approved shareholder meeting for October 17, where all of its shareholders, including Mason, will vote on its share exchange proposal. On Friday, Mason announced it had called another meeting for earlier that same day in order to establish a minimum premium to Telus’ voting shares to be paid to shareholders in any transaction to have one…
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THE BACK-AND-FORTH paper war between Wind and Telus will not abate until the CRTC says one way or another whether it will call a hearing into the matter.
On one side we have Wind (also known as Globalive Wireless), which spent two years fighting off allegations from Telus, Public Mobile and others that its level of Canadian ownership did not satisfy Canadian regulations. That battle went all the way to the Supreme Court. On the other side we have Telus, which has run into some unexpected rough waters trying to convert its two share structure into…
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TORONTO – Telus Community Ambassadors in the Greater Toronto Area are helping ease some of the back-to-school financial strain for families throughout the region by donating free backpacks filled with school supplies to 740 students.
The initiative is part of the company’s ‘Kits for Kids’ program, an annual tradition through which thousands of backpacks are distributed to young students across Canada. Since 2006 nearly 60,000 ‘Kits for Kids’ backpacks have been given to kids in need.
"Programs such as Telus’ Kits for Kids are incredibly important for families in need”, said Crystal Brummell, president of the Central Toronto Community Ambassadors, in…
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TORONTO – Telus Mobility and Telehop have finalized an agreement allowing Telus’ wireless customers to select Telehop's dial-around long distance services.
By dialing #100 and then entering the destination number, mobile customers will be charged for a Telehop per minute long distance calling plan which includes 0.05 per minute calling to destinations such as China, India, Israel, Mexico, Australia and most of Europe. Long distance rates to Pakistan, Vietnam, Russia and South Africa are 0.10 per minute, while calls to Jamaica and Trinidad are 0.15 per minute and 0.20 per minute, respectively. The charges will appear on the customer's regular…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is offering its shareholders another chance to approve a plan that would see them attain equal voting rights.
After dropping its original proposal in May, Telus said Tuesday that shareholders will be asked on October 17 to vote on a plan allowing them to exchange non-voting shares into common shares on a one-for-one basis. The telco added that the plan will require approval from two-thirds of its non-voting share votes, and a simple majority of common share votes cast at the meeting.
"With this proposal we are responding to the overwhelmingly positive support from shareholders since we introduced…
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VANCOUVER – Add Telus to the list of stakeholders opposing Bell’s planned purchase of Astral Media.
The telco issued a statement Tuesday backing the ‘Say No To Bell’ coalition, and voicing its concern over the “unprecedented concentration of market power in the broadcasting sector would have on Canadian consumers”.
“All Canadians should be able to access the content they want through the provider they choose; we all benefit from competition between a variety of organizations and no one company should be in a position to take away choice or access to content for consumers,” said president and CEO Darren Entwistle,…
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TORONTO – Popular Bollywood entertainment channel, ZEE Cinema, launched on Rogers Digital Cable and Telus Optik TV in Canada this month.
Zee Americas has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Toronto’s Ethnic Channels Group for ZEE Cinema in Canada. The deal provides Ethnic Channels Group the rights to distribute the service on cable and satellite platforms here.
“This is exciting for us in that for the first time ever we are able to focus our marketing and unlock the strength of…
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VANCOUVER – Telus has expanded its 4G LTE network across metro Vancouver.
The telco said Thursday that the service is now available in Burnaby, New Westminster, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, South Delta and Vancouver. Additional B.C. communities, including Southern Vancouver Island, Whistler, Prince George, the Okanagan and Peace River region, are expected to receive access later this year.
“With an LTE device our customers can enjoy the fastest wireless technology available in the world today – we are continuing to expand this new technology, community by community, so that by the end of the year, nearly 90% of B.C. residents are…
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