OTTAWA – Grassroots youth-focused charities in the Ottawa region received a $400,000 financial boost from the Telus Ottawa Community Board this year.
The Board has supported 29 local organizations that work to educate and empower youth to reach their full potential. Since it was launched in 2005, the Board has contributed more than $3.3 million to support 203 local projects that help to improve education, health and quality of life for youth in Ottawa.
Telus also announced that Arnie Vered, president of Arnon Corporation, has been named as the new chair of the Telus Ottawa Community Board. Other board members include…
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VANCOUVER – Third quarter profits at Telus rose by 30%, which the company said Friday was generated by increases in its wireless, wireline and data revenues.
Net income for the quarter ended September 30 was $326 million, a sizeable jump from $251 million in the same period last year. Adjusting for three non-recurring items in the third quarter of 2010, normalized net income was higher by 12%.
Revenues for the quarter grew 6.5% to $2.6 billion, compared to $2.5 billion last year, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $968 million increased by 3% from $941 million due to revenue…
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GATINEAU – Some consensus around a Rogers Communications proposal for IP to IP connection emerged during the first day of rebuttals Monday at the CRTC’s interconnection hearing.
Rogers decided that it would be easier to live with the status quo in IP interconnection and pay for the costs of converting IP traffic to TDM (time-division multiplexing) to terminate voice calls on ILECs network as long as ILECs would negotiate IP interconnection where they offer it to either a subsidiary, a division or an unaffiliated carrier. Last week, Rogers requested the commission require the ILECs to pay…
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TORONTO – Telus has once again pledged its support to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation via its annual ‘Go Pink’ campaign which seeks to raise money to fund breast cancer fellowships for research into the early detection and treatment of the disease.
Telus will contribute $25 to the Foundation for every pink BlackBerry Curve 9360 smart phone sold, and an additional $5 for each purchase of select pink phone accessories. Canadians may also visit Telus’ Facebook page to create their own ‘pink network’ – an on-line, shareable photo gallery – and Telus will contribute an additional $1 for every new photo gallery created.
"Each…
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OTTAWA – Telus chairman Brian A. Canfield has been named this year’s recipient of the Neotelis Canadian Telecom Career Service Award.
Awarded by Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame, the career service awards were initiated in 2006 to acknowledge the exemplary work, accomplishments and leadership of those Canadians who have made tangible contributions to the betterment of the domestic and international telecom industry for the better part of their careers.
Canfield joined BC Tel in 1956 and, in the early part of his career, held key positions in network services, engineering, operator services, sales and operations before being named president and CEO…
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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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