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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OTTAWA — The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada and the National Pensioners Federation (NPF) jointly called Tuesday for more Covid-19 relief for low-income consumers in the form of unlimited Internet access for at least the next six months and low-income Internet and wireless plans to help all Canadians stay connected while isolating at home during the coronavirus pandemic and possibly beyond.
The consumer groups addressed their demands to not only the federal government and the CRTC but also Canada’s Internet and wireless service providers.
“The Canadian government has told Canadians to stay at home which we are doing,” said…
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VANCOUVER — Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle told employees Monday that since they are forgoing any raises for the next three months and seeing the temporary suspension of the company’s matching portion of the employee share plan over the same time frame, he will donate three full months of his own salary to help support front-line healthcare workers fighting against Covid-19.
“As we do our very best to navigate a new world created by this challenging global pandemic, the past three weeks have certainly been unprecedented for our team and company,” wrote Entwistle in a Monday morning internal email…
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VANCOUVER and EDMONTON — Telus announced today it has extended its Internet for Good program to all Kindergarten to grade 12 students who do not have a home internet connection in British Columbia and Alberta.
With teachers now expected to deliver lessons to students via the Internet due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Telus is now working in partnership with local school boards across B.C. and Alberta to offer its Internet for Good program to students in need. The program provides families who can’t afford a connection with high-speed broadband Internet at home for only $9.95 per month.
Previously, eligibility for the…
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Quarterly results reporting begins this week
By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – Both Cogeco Inc. and Shaw Communications will release their fiscal 2020 second quarter results this week, but since their quarters ended February 29th, those numbers will resemble more of a time capsule than an account of what is going on in the market right now and the real news will be what the companies have to say about what’s happened since with the Covid-19 crisis.
“We believe Canadian telcos and cablecos remain structurally sound and even after our target price revisions, we believe the sector will provide investors attractive potential total…
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