MISSISSAUGA and VANCOUVER – Bell and Telus have confirmed that they have struck an agreement with Apple to sell the popular iPhone in Canada.
The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS will be available as early as next month on the companies’ shared new 3G network, which Bell said on Monday will launch in November.
Information on pricing and availability was not made available at this time.
www.bell.ca/networkwww.telusmobility.com/iphone
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TORONTO – Telus is co-starring with Cineplex Entertainment on discounted movie nights at theatres across the country.
‘Telus Tuesdays’ will feature half price movie tickets plus discounts on popcorn and soft drinks.
The telco has also launched a contest for its customers which will run from September 18 to November 12, 2009. Telus movie goers can enter the contest once per day via text message or an online form to be eligible to win a grand prize valued at $1,500.
www.telus.com/tuesdayswww.cineplex.com
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VANCOUVER – Telus has bought imaging and digital retailer Black’s in order to help push its products and services across Canada.
The 79-year old retailer will add Telus’ wireless devices to its 113 locations, bumping up the number of Telus-owned retail outlets to over 1,000. Black’s has a particular strength in the Ontario marketplace with 81 stores.
"Black’s premium locations provide an established network across Canada for the distribution of Telus’ wireless products, which nicely complements our extensive network of dealers and stores,” said Joe Natale, president of consumer solutions, in a statement. “In anticipation of our clients’ evolving needs and…
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OTTAWA – According to Telus, wireless newcomer Globalive should be declared ineligible to operate as a telecommunications common carrier in Canada, as it is controlled by persons who are not Canadians.
The BC-based telecom giant made that assertion again this week as it filed comments for the CRTC’s upcoming review into Globalive’s ownership structure.
Globalive is co-owned by Orascom, a global wireless player based in Egypt with over 79 million wireless subscribers. Orascom holds a 65% indirect equity ownership, but less than 50% of voting control in Globealive Holdings, the parent company of Globalive Wireless.
But Telus alleges that Orascom’s ownership…
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VICTORIA – Telus will donate $100 for every new Telus TV customer on Vancouver Island to a home away from home for children requiring medical treatment and their families in Victoria.
The initiative, which will run through June of 2010, is in addition to a $100,000 donation from the 2010 Telus World Skins Game to The Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children for the planning and development of Jeneece Place.
Telus partners with local charitable organizations every year around the popular golf tournament, which next year will be held at Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria from June 21 – 22. Funds are generated…
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OTTAWA – Janet Yale said that it just “seemed like a good time” to make the transition to politics from her 20 plus year career in the cable and telecom industries in Canada.
Yale, now on leave as the executive vice-president of corporate affairs for Telus, announced earlier this week that she is seeking the federal Liberal nomination for her home riding of Ottawa-Centre.
Well know to Cartt.ca readers through her roles at Telus, the now defunct Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA), AT&T Canada and the CRTC, Yale said that her background and experience should prove invaluable as she…
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OTTAWA – Telus executive Janet Yale has announced that she is seeking the federal Liberal nomination for the riding of Ottawa-Centre, where she has lived for the last 28 years.
Yale, currently the executive vice-president of corporate affairs for Telus, once headed up the now defunct Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA). She has more than 20 years of government and regulatory experience through senior leadership positions at AT&T Canada, the CRTC and the Consumer’s Association of Canada.
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TORONTO – Telus wireless customers will be able to catch some of CTV’s most-watched television programs via Telus’ new mobile video streaming service, the companies announced Thursday.
CTV has signed on as Telus’ first content provider for its new streaming video-on-demand service, meaning customers can use their mobile or smart phone to see shows like MTV’s The Hills, The Comedy Network’s South Park, or top stories and highlights from CTV News, TSN and BNN. Content will be updated on a regular basis, and will be available on demand in easy-to-stream clip format, the press release said.
“Two thirds of Canadian households have…
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OTTAWA – Due to the “flawed” overall structure of last year’s advanced wireless spectrum auction, Canada’s wireless companies collectively paid over two billion dollars too much, and that is sorely needed cash which could have been put to far better use than just being handed over to car companies, says Telus.
In time for its reply comments to Industry Canada’s spectrum auction consultation which were due in yesterday, the number two wireless carrier filed a report by NERA Economic Consulting which examined at the structure of the 2008 AWS auction (comparing it to others around the world and past…
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BY UNDERESTIMATING THE SPEED of tech rumours that go a little viral and overestimating the diligence of Canadian journalism, I lost a bet last week.
Last Thursday, I came across an unsubstantiated rumour on the web that said Telus would have the Apple iPhone in October of this year. I bet a friend it would take a couple of days at least before that rumour found its way into the mainstream media (MSM) as a “sources say” piece. I was wrong. It took less than a day.
Thanks to Google Alerts, I was linked to gadget news/blog site Electronista.com,…
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