Telus Health last week announced an exclusive strategic partnership with Clinia, a Montreal-based provider of health-grade search technologies, to transform healthcare navigation and deliver personalized care for individuals.
“By harnessing Clinia’s AI-powered technology stack, TELUS Health aims to streamline provider registry networks management, facilitate seamless interconnectivity and drive improved cost sustainability for payors and providers, eliminating the problems associated with traditional provider registry networks,” which can be expensive to maintain and don’t provide connected and complete information, a press release says.
“The overwhelming amount of health information available online can be incredibly time…
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MONTREAL – Telus announced Wednesday it will begin offering its Optik TV customers the option to subscribe to Videotron’s SVOD service Club illico for $10 a month — $5 less than a standalone subscription — beginning Dec. 7.
Optik TV customers who subscribe will have access to more than 6,500 French-language titles from Club illico that they can watch anywhere and anytime on the device of their choice, including via the Telus TV+ mobile app, a press release says.
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Telus Communications last week released its fifth annual Indigenous Reconciliation and Connectivity Report, which includes a new commitment to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into the telecom’s artificial intelligence (AI) and data ethics strategy.
The annual report includes stories about how Indigenous peoples are leveraging Telus’s connectivity and investments to improve education outcomes, revitalize languages, increase economic participation and drive long-term prosperity in their communities and beyond.
“Together, we are making tremendous progress toward a world where all Indigenous communities have the connectivity they need to support their unique, social,…
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VANCOUVER – Telus Health on Tuesday unveiled its next-generation medical alert system, comprised of a discreet wearable pendant and connected caregiver app, designed to support older Canadians as they age in place.
Providing users with peace of mind knowing emergency support is available 24/7 at the push of a button, the newly designed Telus Health Medical Alert Pendant has the longest battery life of any mobile medical alert device in Canada and an enhanced fall detection feature for an added layer of security, according to a Telus Health press release.
Falls are…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Telus CEO Darren Entwistle said Friday he believes there will a future where the regulatory environment will be tempered by heightened competition and current declining prices despite higher inflation.
“God forgive me for saying this, but I see over the longer term the environment moderating,” Entwistle said during a third-quarter earnings call Friday. “I think a lot of the goals that the federal government has had on the regulatory front have effectively been answered, and I think this is an era to allow free market forces to determine competitive outcomes, not regulatory or government intervention.”
The telecom said…
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MONTREAL – Telus, Montreal-based TerreStar Solutions (operating as Strigo) and U.S.-based Skylo announced Wednesday they have successfully used satellite connectivity to conduct voice calls and send text messages between smartphones as well as connect to IoT devices.
The trial in October combined non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider Skylo’s software-defined network connectivity platform, TerreStar’s mobile satellite spectrum and service platform that covers most of Canada, and Telus’s network-building expertise, according to a press release. The trial was successful in making direct connections using TerreStar’s existing Echostar T1 geostationary satellite, the release says.
“This…
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QUEBEC CITY – Telus and FLO, a North American electric vehicle (EV) charging network operator and smart charging solutions provider, announced Tuesday an agreement to bring Telus connectivity to FLO chargers.
Headquartered in Quebec City, FLO is Canada’s most extensive EV network and boasts having 100,000 charging stations across North America, enabling more than 1.5 million charging sessions each month, according to a press release.
The companies say FLO will leverage Telus’s dedicated IoT network solutions and connectivity platforms in FLO public and commercial Level 2 and Direct Current Fast Chargers (DCFCs)…
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VANCOUVER – The Telus Pollinator Fund for Good announced last week it is making equity investments in three clean technology startups.
The fund is participating in a US$20-million funding round being held by Climate Robotics, a Houston-based startup leveraging advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to help sequester carbon emissions while improving the health of agricultural soils, according to a Telus press release.
The second new startup the fund is investing in is Mississauga, Ont.-based erthos, which “is leading the charge to address the global plastic pollution crisis with a plant-based resin alternative to…
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VANCOUVER – Telus Communications announced Wednesday it has made a historic achievement by becoming the first company in the world to be awarded ISO 31700-1 Privacy by Design certification.
The certification, developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in partnership with former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Dr. Ann Cavoukian, was awarded to Telus’s Data for Good program, which is powered by the Telus Insights platform and focuses on leveraging de-identified mobility data for social good.
“The Data for Good program, launched in 2017 and winner of the 2020…
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OTTAWA – Telus has been awarded Friday more funding on top of the $12 million it was allocated for four projects backed by the commission’s Broadband Fund.
The CRTC has approved the Vancouver-based telecom’s request for an additional $4.5 million – a nearly 40 per cent increase – on the basis of unanticipated increases in costs including labour since the pandemic and changes in equipment that would “improve the sustainability, resiliency, and cybersecurity of the project.
The projects will build and/or upgrade mobile wireless, local fixed access, and transport infrastructure in a total of 26 communities and along roughly 305 kilometres…
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