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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TORONTO – Telus has eliminated hefty cancellation fees from its customer contacts in a move that it says is designed to further simplify device ownership agreements.
Consumers and business customers wishing to end their agreement early to upgrade to a new Telus device must only pay their device balance, which is the remaining portion of the device credit they received when they purchased their previous device, and is displayed on their monthly bill. Customers wishing to leave Telus must also pay back their remaining device balance plus an “administrative account closure charge” of $50.
"Over the last few years, we’ve worked…
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OTTAWA – Huawei, Telus and Carleton this week signed a more than $1.4 million deal today to establish a research lab dedicated to enterprise cloud services.
Located in Carleton University’s new Canal engineering building, the Huawei-Telus Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services will give students, faculty and industry an opportunity to research real-world problems associated with cloud computing such as security and performance issues, according to the companies.
“In addition to the joint innovation centre we announced with Telus earlier in the year, this new lab, another strategic partnership with Telus, is dedicated to enterprise cloud services, and underscores our…
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TORONTO – As promised last week, Telus announced Monday the company is lowering its roaming voice and data rates by up to 60%.
With the launch of Telus’ new “clear and simple international travel pricing,” all customers will now get the same low roaming rates when they’re traveling. Separate travel bundles and passes will no longer be required to take advantage of the lowest rate, making it easy and hassle-free for customers to use Telus wireless services when overseas.
"After the launch of our new HSPA+ wireless network in late 2009, Telus was able to offer our customers a…
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TORONTO – Telus customers will soon be able to use Skype on their smart phones and purchase Skype credits through their Telus accounts. In addition, Telus will launch the first Skype edition smart phone in Canada, the LG Optimus Black, the companies announced Thursday.
Skype is a software application that allows users to make low cost voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. With 663 million registered users as of 2010, the company was acquired by Microsoft for US$8.5 billion last month.
Telus said that its partnership with Skype will allow customers to make unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls and instant…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) have completed a new collective agreement following a series of ratification meetings.
Telus said Wednesday that more than 80% of its employees who cast their ballots in more than 30 communities voted to accept the new contract. The new agreement, covering approximately 12,100 employees nationally, takes effect Thursday and expires on December 31, 2015.
"I am pleased the agreement was endorsed by our team members across Canada," said president and CEO Darren Entwistle, in a statement. "This is great news for Telus, our team members and our customers, enabling us to…
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