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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TORONTO – Telus Friendly Future Foundation on Wednesday is officially announcing the launch of its new $50-million Telus Student Bursary fund, which it says is the largest bursary fund in Canada.
The fund has been created through a $25-million endowment gift from Telus, along with an additional $25-million commitment in fundraising from Telus Friendly Future Foundation. It is intended to support students facing financial barriers impacting their ability to enroll in or continue their post-secondary education.
Telus Student Bursaries will be awarded annually to youth between the ages of 17 and 29 who have been…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Telus is accusing the CRTC of deviating from precedent when it argues that spectrum sale and leasing revenues count toward the telecoms’ total operating revenues for the purposes of calculating what fees are owed to the commission.
The Vancouver-based telecom argued in a submission Thursday that those revenues have traditionally not been filed under total operating revenues when using the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for financial reporting, which has been used by the CRTC to calculate contributions owed to the commission.
Telus was backing a point made by mobile satellite and cell services provider TerreStar, which…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Monday it is introducing a new tier of PureFibre X home Internet service in Alberta and British Columbia, providing symmetrical upload and download speeds of 3 Gbps.
“PureFibre X 3.0 gigabit Internet marks a substantial leap in the next generation of Internet technology,” reads a Telus press release. “Telus is the only 100 per cent fibre-to-the-home in Western Canada, with the ability to seamlessly increase bandwidth and capacity to deliver unparalleled speeds to PureFibre customers.”
The Telus PureFibre X 3.0 gigabit Internet service, starting from $115 per month…
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CALGARY and OTTAWA – Telus Communications today announced the expansion of its community boards in Calgary and Edmonton, as well as three of its Ontario community boards.
“Leveraging a unique model of philanthropy, the Telus Community Boards bring together local business and community leaders, empowering them to make decisions on where Telus’ charitable funding will make the most meaningful difference in their own communities,” explains a Telus press release.
The two Alberta community boards are formally changing their names to Telus Calgary and Southern Alberta Community Board and Telus Edmonton and Northern Alberta Community Board….
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Monday it has made a commitment of $5 million in cash donations and in-kind contributions to local B.C. charities and organizations supporting wildfire relief efforts across British Columbia.
Telus’s donation — made in partnership with Telus Friendly Future Foundation, Telus Indigenous Communities Fund, Telus Agriculture and Consumer Goods, and Telus Health — will support several organizations, including the Canadian Red Cross, Salvation Army British Columbia Division, BC SPCA, Mamas for Mamas, BC Cattlemen’s Association, and local food banks, a press release says.
“Our Telus team is devastated by the widespread wildfires that…
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By Ahmad Hathout
TORONTO – Rogers is asking Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice to force Telus to continue fulfilling its obligations under existing wireless roaming terms with the cable company while the two competitors wrangle over terms of a proposed agreement.
Rogers is alleging in the August 14 filing that Telus is threatening to cease providing certain wireless services to it as a result of a dispute “over a particular term” in a proposed bilateral wireless agreement that is before arbitration. The particulars of the commercial dispute are not outlined in the complaint.
“TELUS has threatened to terminate Rogers’ access to certain…
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Large cuts hark back to time Telus threatened 5,000 cuts during wireless review
By Ahmad Hathout
Telus announced Friday it is cutting 6,000 jobs across its telecom and information technology business, which president and CEO Darren Entwistle partly attributed to getting ahead of regulatory changes.
The job losses are split across Telus and its IT business Telus International, with losses of 4,000 at the former and 2,000 at the latter.
“It is with heavy heart that we are seeking to reduce 6,000 staff positions across our global footprint,” Telus said in its second-quarter results release, adding it is also “offering early retirement and…
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