MONTREAL – TELUS on Wednesday announced it was investing $33 million in an eco-friendly IT data centre in Laval. The facility will be an Uptime Institute Tier III certified Internet data centre that will be designed according to the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) standard.
The centre will house extremely powerful computer services with redundant power, cooling and security systems.
TELUS currently operates eight data centres across Canada, which are connected to the company’s national Internet protocol (IP) network.
“Our customers, whether they serve the health, financial or transportation sector, rely on TELUS’ leading IT team to…
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RIMOUSKI – A strong majority of the members of the Syndicat des agents de maîtrise de Telus (SAMT) have voted to accept the Memorandum of Agreement reached with Telus management on July 4, 2008, as recommended by the negotiating committee.
The SAMT covers more than 500 people employed in professional and supervisory positions working in the Lower Saint Lawrence, the Gaspé, Montreal, Quebec, Sainte-Marie, Saint-Georges, Baie-Comeau and Sept-Iles regions.
"The new collective agreement accepted by Telus professionals and supervisors affirms our commitment to our team and to our clients, while reflecting the reality of today’s dynamic telecommunications environment," said…
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VANCOUVER – The city of Vancouver has awarded Telus a contract to provide the city’s new IP telephony system and contact centre suite.
Through the $7 million deal, Telus will supply, install and support the Vancouver’s new IP telephony system and contact centre suite, which will in turn support 200 City sites including City Hall, the 311 contact centre, the Vancouver Police Department, the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Department, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and the Vancouver Public Library.
Telus’ contact centre solutions will route calls for the city of Vancouver’s new 311 contact centre, to be…
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TORONTO – A new multiplatform advertising deal between national telco Telus and Discovery channel will weave the telecom firm’s brand into all iterations of the specialty service’s newest series, Cash Cab.
Premiering today and Friday on Discovery HD, Cash Cab is modeled on the worldwide hit format of the same name where passengers/contestants in a specially designed taxi are offered the chance to win money by answering a series of trivia questions on the way to their destination.
Since the original series premiered in the U.K. in 2005, it has become an international hit. In June, Cash Cab (U.S.)…
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OTTAWA – Telus team members and Atlantic Canada community leaders will collaborate to donate $250,000 to local charities each year on Telus’ behalf through the Telus Atlantic Canada Community Board. General Rick Hillier will be the chairman of the board, working with Telus and the board members to develop a charitable giving and community program in Atlantic Canada. His external strategic advisory position is effective September 1.
"We are looking to the Telus Atlantic Canada community board for local insight, knowledge and inspiration," said Darren Entwistle, Telus president and CEO. "It is an honour to welcome General Hillier to…
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VANCOUVER –Telus Corp reported a 5.5% increase in quarterly profits on the strength of wireless revenue and new mobile phone and Internet subscribers, but chief executive office Darren Entwistle told a conference call with analysts that the company needs to further reduce operating expenses.
"Despite the fact that since 2001 Telus’s ongoing investment in restructuring and workforce reduction totals $1 billion, I am less than satisfied with the revision of our restructuring expense target from $50 million to $30 million," said Entwistle.
Telus earned $267 million in the second quarter ended June 30. That was up 5.5 per cent from $253.1…
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OTTAWA – Industry Minister Jim Prentice says Bell Mobility and Telus have assured him that any customers mistakenly charged for text message spam can have the charges removed from their bills.
Prentice, in a news release, says he met with the CEOs of both companies to express his "serious concerns" with the fact the plans could charge for unsolicited, unwanted spam. He also said the government has “no intention of interfering with the day-to-day business decisions of private companies or with the choices available to consumers” but added that his officials will continue to “monitor market activity.”
"I would encourage consumers dissatisfied…
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TORONTO – IT security breaches are costing publicly traded Canadian companies an average loss of more than $637,000 annually, says a new study released by Telus and the Rotman School of Management.
In government, the cost is $320,000 per organization, while the cost to private companies is $294,000 a year.
Similar studies in the U.S. show the cost of data security breaches more than doubling year over year, rising to an average of US$345,000 in 2007 from US$167,713 in 2006 for public companies. There is no similar benchmark data for Canada, but Rotman business economics professor Dr. Walid Hejazi…
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CHICAGO – Zouheir Mansourati’s task Wednesday morning was to show delegates to the IPTV World North America conference what Telus has learned so far, two years into its IPTV deployment.
The vice-president technology strategy for the Canadian telco noted first that choosing a “best-in-class” product for every piece of the IPTV pie is probably not the best idea.
“It’s far more important to have an overall system, that works together well,” he said. “You can’t have ‘best-of-class’ in every component if they don’t work together.”
Most important, though, of those components, is to choose the right set top box….
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VANCOUVER – Telus is encouraging the federal government to invest $1 billion of the $4.25 billion raised in the wireless spectrum auction to pursue its goal of making Canada the most connected country in the world. The auction says Telus has provided an unprecedented opportunity to bring broadband Internet services to thousands of rural communities.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make Canada the most connected nation in the world and advance the government’s own agenda of making ours an even more competitive economy," said Janet Yale, Telus executive vice-president of corporate affairs. "More than $4 billion has been…
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