EDMONTON — Telus Health’s Home Health Monitoring solution is being used in a technology trial for people with chronic health conditions living in central Alberta, it was announced Tuesday by Edmonton’s Health City, a not-for-profit economic development initiative focused on the health sector.
The technology trial is a collaborative effort between Alberta Central Zone Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Telus Health, Health City, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., Alberta Innovates, and Alberta Health Services. Wolf Creek, Drayton Valley and Kalyna Country PCNs will be the first central Alberta PCNs to trial the technology for people with chronic health conditions, with potential to…
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TORONTO — With its manufacturing and brand licensing agreement with BlackBerry coming to an end, Chinese smartphone manufacturer TCL Communication is officially entering the Canadian market with its own TCL Mobile brand of devices in partnership with Bell, Koodo, Telus and Virgin Mobile, the manufacturer announced Tuesday.
Available July 10, the TCL 10 Pro (pictured) and TCL 10L Android smartphones provide high-resolution displays, next-generation visual technology, quad rear-camera setup and other flagship-style features at an attractive price point, says the news release.
“Following the successful global launch of the TCL 10-Series of smartphones, we are pleased to have the opportunity…
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TORONTO — Canadian smartphone/tablet repair company Mobile Klinik announced Monday it has been acquired by Telus, but will continue to operate as an independent business division. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mobile Syrup was first to report this story.
Since opening its first store in Ottawa in September 2015, Mobile Klinik has expanded to 80 stores in eight provinces. The smartphone repair chain has been on an acquisition spree itself this past year, acquiring Fonelab in January 2020 and Device Care in July 2019. In 2017, Mobile Klinik acquired mobilFIX and Dr. Mobile to…
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STOCKHOLM — Ericsson announced Monday the commercial availability of its Standalone 5G New Radio (NR) software for 5G mid- and low bands, which allows communications service providers to operate 5G NR independently of 4G networks.
To date, 5G networks have been deployed in Non-standalone (NSA) mode where the underlying 4G network layer supports the necessary signalling. Standalone 5G NR removes this 4G dependency, explains the news release.
The new Ericsson software will allow service providers to add 5G NR to existing 4G sites with a simpler architecture, or deploy 5G independently in new areas such as factories, to support enterprise…
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GATINEAU – Despite receiving a request from Rogers Communications to extend the final comment date of the CRTC’s wireless policy review proceeding by another two weeks (which was widely supported by other parties), the Commission decided to stick with the July 15th deadline.
That deadline, of course, was already a months-long extension enacted due to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the companies’ and Commission’s operations.
On June 25th, Rogers Communications filed a request to extend the date by two more weeks. Bell Mobility, Videotron, TbayTel, the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic and OpenMedia supported the request, while…
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By Ahmad Hathout
GATINEAU – On Friday Telus made public the board resolution its CEO Darren Entwistle cited during the CRTC’s wireless hearing earlier this year, which says the company will need to free up $1.1 billion if the CRTC carries forward any plan to mandate mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) – companies which ride on incumbent networks without necessarily having their own infrastructure.
The regulator had already expressed a preliminary view prior to the hearing that MVNOs would be appropriate to induce competition in the industry and the federal government has strongly signalled its support for the same.
Telus used audit…
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By Bram Abramson
A RARE CRTC DECISION on the appeal of a “notice to produce”, compelling Hydro-Québec to produce the personal information associated with 10 service addresses, has shed further light on how the Commission will use the information-gathering powers of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) when dealing with intermediary service providers.
Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2020-196, issued on June 18 against Hydro-Québec, echoes a similar 2016 decision in the Royal Bank of Canada’s appeal of a third-party notice to produce. The Hydro-Québec decision interprets the CRTC’s CASL information-gathering authority largely in terms of whether the information compelled by…
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By Greg O’Brien
WHILE SOME PRO SPORTS have returned to play, like the English Premier League, the PGA, NASCAR and others, new and growing outbreaks of the Covid-19 virus in the U.S. threatens the return of the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, each currently planning for a July start or re-start.
If marquee North American pro sports don’t come back to TV soon, as planned, there may be permanent effects on the pay-TV bundle and the overall value of the TV rights, says a recent report from Scotiabank’s media and telecom analyst Jeff Fan.
There are between 8 million and 9…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – During one of the CRTC’s most anticipated hearings earlier this year, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle appeared before the Commission reviewing impending changes to the wireless industry and warned mandating new entrants without facilities to ride on the networks of the incumbents would mean many jobs lost, philanthropic spending slashed and reductions in investments.
It was a defining moment during the hearing. Drawing the attention of national media and critics on social media, it encompassed for some the realities of the competitive delicacy of the industry; for others, it was viewed as a baseless threat…
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REGINA — Saskatchewan will likely rule out using Huawei equipment in provincially-owned SaskTel’s 5G network, according to the minister responsible for the Crown Corporation, in a report by the Regina Leader-Post.
Minister Don Morgan is quoted as saying the provincial government will look at other vendors, specifically Nokia and Ericsson, although a decision has not been made yet.
Bell and Telus announced recently they are using equipment from those two suppliers for their 5G networks, and Morgan says it’s important to be aligned with the other carriers’ moves.
Like Bell and Telus, SaskTel’s current 4G network uses equipment from Huawei.
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