QUEBEC CITY, MONTREAL, OTTAWA, TORONTO, VANCOUVER, VICTORIA and KELOWNA — Telus announced Tuesday several of its community boards across the country are donating additional funding to local charities to support organizations responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, Telus said it was committing $1 million in donations in 2020 to charities in Calgary and Edmonton.
Today, Telus announced it is providing $1 million immediately in grants to grassroots charities in Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and the Okanagan region of B.C., with a commitment to provide another $2.4 million in…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Monday it is giving over 10,000 free mobile devices and $0 rate plans to hundreds of organizations across the country to help Canadians in vulnerable communities or isolated in hospitals stay connected through the Covid-19 crisis.
The devices are letting hospitalized Covid-19 patients virtually connect with loved ones, for example, as well as providing a needed lifeline for isolated seniors, low-income families, homeless, and at-risk individuals so they can see and speak to to families, health practitioners and social support services.
Telus has already donated more than 6,000 mobile devices paired with $0 rate plans including unlimited…
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are calling on global telecommunication companies to join their initiative to use information technology to defeat Covid-19.
In a news release issued Monday, the WHO and ITU say they are ready to work with telecom companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital health messaging to help protect them from Covid-19. The text messages will reach billions of people that aren’t able to connect to the Internet for information, explains the release.
This initiative builds…
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By Ahmad Hathout
THE CANADIAN NETWORK OPERATORS Consortium (CNOC) is facing fresh denials from some incumbents to a request by the organization to lift certain network restrictions during the Covid-19 crisis.
The three-part ask from CNOC, which represents smaller third party internet access operators that rent part of the network of the larger providers, includes a lifting of capacity restraints free-of-charge, expedited network augmentations through more physical interconnections, and wholesale payment term flexibility of 60 additional days to help support customers who are unable to pay on time.
The letter was sent over the course of the past couple of weeks to…
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EDMONTON and CALGARY – The Telus Edmonton Community Board and the company’s Calgary Community Board each announced donations to local charities this morning to help them during the Covid-19 pandemic which will amount to $1 million in 2020.
The Edmonton board it is immediately directing $165,000 in grants to be given out and is committing another $335,000 this year for a total of $500,000 to be granted in 2020. The Calgary board is committing to $140,000 in grants right now and will add another $360,000 for a total of $500,000 to be given out in 2020.
“As charities across the country…
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VICTORIA – Top musical talent from Vancouver Island will join forces Friday at 8 p.m. to help raise funds for Islanders who are most in need during the Covid-19 pandemic on independent broadcaster CHEK.
Rock for Relief will feature performances by David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Randy and Tal Bachman, the Tenors, Trevor Guthrie, and current American Idol contestant Lauren Spencer-Smith from Nanaimo, as well as local favourites Jesse Roper, Carmanah, Aaron Pritchett, Kathryn Calder and many others.
Plus, there will be special appearances by Steve Nash, Silken Laumann, Rick Hansen, Jim Treliving and other notables. The program will be hosted…
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EDMONTON — Telus is expediting its capital investments in Alberta to support the province throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, announcing Tuesday it will bring forward investments originally targeted for 2021 into this year as it reallocates its 2020 capital spend.
As part of its previously announced $16-billion, multi-year investment commitment in Alberta, Telus’ total investment in network infrastructure and operations in the province in 2020 will be approximately $3.5 billion, according to the news release.
As part of this investment, Telus will expand its PureFibre and high-speed Internet networks to 282,000 homes and businesses across Alberta, including a specific focus…
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Incumbents say claim they disadvantage resellers on tech work is false
By Ahmad Hathout
GATINEAU – Despite an ongoing judicial review of lower wholesale rates the CRTC set last summer, the Regulator’s ability to set new emergency rates is unaffected by the case and the Commission should install new, lower fees for resellers, ISP TekSavvy is arguing.
On Monday, TekSavvy said in a press release the CRTC should consider emergency measures to reimpose lower rates which third party internet access providers like itself pay the incumbents to use network space. The Federal Court of Appeal is currently scheduled to hear…
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VANCOUVER — Telus Health announced Wednesday it is adding patient videoconferencing functionality to its electronic medical records (EMRs) offering, enabling 26,000 Canadian family doctors across Canada to conduct virtual visits with their patients for free while reducing Covid-19 exposure risk.
Telus Health says it accelerated the development of this virtual video functionality in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, now that physicians across the country can use virtual care fee codes. Offered as a free service for the first four months, this new feature allows physicians to virtually support their own roster of patients while maintaining continuity of care…
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TORONTO — LG’s newest smartphone, the LG V60ThinQ 5G with dual screen, will be available Thursday for purchase in Canada, the company announced this week.
Built with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G processor, the LG V60ThinQ 5G smartphone’s dual screens let users multitask in a variety of ways, such as texting a friend on one screen while watching a video on the other, or even livestreaming content while responding to emails, says the news release.
“The introduction of 5G to Canada will create a new standard for speed and connectivity and forever change the way we work,” said Varun Kalia,…
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