VANCOUVER – Telus is partnering with U.S. based Stratacache to provide digital signage services to customers across Canada.
Telus Digital Media Solutions will use Stratacache’s digital signage software ActiVia for Media, in the creation of a new digital signage and broadcasting service that allows businesses to use digital signs to communicate with customers or employees. Using high-definition graphics, businesses may place digital signs on their premises and adjust the content over a wireless interface running on Telus’ 4G network.
The service includes digital video and audio content caching and streaming for advertising, webcasting, and digital signage to companies ranging…
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HALIFAX – Telus has upgraded its wireless network to HSPA+ dual cell in Atlantic Canada and is now offering faster wireless Internet speeds in Moncton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and St. John’s.
Telus said Thursday that its HSPA+ dual cell network offers manufacturer’s rated peak wireless Internet download speeds of up to 42 megabits per second with an expected average of 7-14 Mbps, and is now available to 70% of Canadians across the country.
"We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars year after year to bring the most advanced network technologies to our customers across Canada," said Brent Johnston, VP of mobility solutions,…
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VANCOUVER – Telus today reported Q2 revenue of $2.55 billion, an increase of 6.4% over the same quarter last year. This increase was generated by nearly 10% growth in wireless revenue and 3% in wireline revenue, both driven by strong data growth.
Analysts were expecting overall revenue of about $2.52 billion.
The company says it added 94,000 new wireless subscribers in the quarter, and that wireless data revenue surged 49% on accelerating smartphone adoption which more than offset declining voice revenues. This produced a wireless average revenue per unit (ARPU) growth of 2.5%. Telus says this is the third consecutive quarter of…
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TORONTO/MONTREAL – Telus says it has added 900 new team members in Ontario and Quebec in 2011 to help meet the growing demand for its wireless services.
By the end of this year, the new 250 Ontario recruits will join the 7,800 Telus team members who already call Toronto and the GTA home. Since January Telus has also hired nearly 650 new employees in the province of Quebec, with more than half meeting the company’s growing needs in the Greater Montréal Area.
Telus plans to hire even more new team members this year to meet growing customer demand for…
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WATERLOO – Research in Motion has announced five new BlackBerry models that run the BlackBerry 7 OS and will be available for sale around the world later this month.
The new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 are the thinnest BlackBerry phones yet, and combine a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard. NFC technology has been added making mobile payments a possibility, however no system was announced by RIM to take advantage of it.
"This is the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion. "The BlackBerry solution offers a best-in-class mobile communications experience…
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TORONTO – Former Ontario MPP Frances Lankin has taken on the role of chair of the Telus Toronto Community Board for a three year term.
The Telus Toronto Community Board is made up of community leaders and Telus employees who make local funding decisions in areas that positively impact the future of youth in the community. Since its launch in 2006, the board has given more than $3.8 million in support of more than 220 community projects, and this year expects to donate $700,000 to local charities.
Lankin, who takes over from outgoing board chair Rita Burak, was a member of Provincial Parliament…
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WINNIPEG – Telus continues to expand its 4G coverage in Manitoba after turning on two new cell towers and upgrading 42 existing wireless sites around Winnipeg to offer increased network capacity.
Since launching its 4G wireless network in the province in February, Telus said that its coverage has increased by 15% to include the areas around Highways 1, 7 and 75 plus additional coverage within Winnipeg. The B.C.-based telco said that its coverage will extend to the Victoria Beach and Steinbach areas by the end of this year.
"Our $22 million investment in the province this year will give…
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TORONTO – Telus smart phone customers may now tune in to the unlimited, on-demand social music service Rdio via their existing Telus account.
Founded by the creators of Skype, Rdio brings social music discovery to mobile devices, giving users instant access to a growing catalogue of nearly nine million songs. For $10 per month, Rdio users can play any song, album, artist and playlist as many times as they like without ever hearing a single ad, plus have access to new albums the day they are released. Integrated with Facebook and Twitter, Rdio also syncs seamlessly across all of the…
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GATINEAU – When Bell Canada and Telus each spoke to the issue of exclusive content on Tuesday morning during their turns at the CRTC’s hearing into vertical integration of media and distribution companies, we thought to ourselves: “this, we’ve heard before.”
Telus, the biggest carrier in the country without media assets, is worried the likes of Rogers, Bell, Shaw and Quebecor will make acquiring ancillary content for wireless, online, and any other devices that pop up, too difficult or expensive – or give themselves unfair head starts, much to the disadvantage of Telus and other companies like it.
Allowing the Canadian…
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TORONTO – The pint-sized saw whet owl will be the next animal star featured in Telus’ upcoming marketing campaign.
The critter received more than 25% of the 460,000 votes submitted through a Facebook campaign launched last month, beating out category finalists the otter and the pot-bellied pig. As part of the campaign, Telus pledged to give $1 to the Nature Conservancy of Canada for each vote submitted, up to $100,000, a goal met within days of the campaign kick-off.
In other news, ever wonder what inspires the choice…
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