MTS integration proceeding well, no 600 MHz set asides required
TORONTO – Bell Canada Enterprises CEO George Cope, like any wireless executive in Canada these days, is feeling pretty good.
All companies are posting strong recent subscriber additions and see growth continuing. Speaking to the BMO Capital Markets Media and Telecom Conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Cope pointed to the fact Canada has grown by 350,000 immigrants – and the phones and plans they buy – during the past 12 months or so as a leading reason why the business is so buoyant.
Add all those new Canadians to the growth of…
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Plus, spectrum set asides are a bad idea
TORONTO – Customer service at Rogers had better improve because on Tuesday, CEO Joe Natale put a target in front of himself and his company at which to aim.
While speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Media and Telecom Conference, Natale revealed how removing customer service friction points which he has noted during his five months at Rogers makes him believe “we can get anywhere from 100 to 200 basis points of margin improvement in the next 12 to 18 months,” by tackling various issues, he said.
“To date Rogers has done a good…
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TORONTO – Family Channel has kicked off its 15th annual Bullying Awareness Week campaign with the message to Stand UP! when bullying happens.
Family Channel is also taking the message of bullying prevention on the road, bringing Stand UP! rallies to selected schools across Canada. Hosted by The Next Step’s Briar Nolet (Richelle) and Myles Erlick (Noah), each rally will feature a screening of bullying-themed content from Backstage, an interactive discussion led by a PREVNet representative and a special dance performance. Kids can enter to win by visiting Family.ca and explaining how their school stands up to bullying. The…
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TORONTO – Telus has teamed up with entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den judge Arlene Dickinson on a new contest aimed at helping small businesses succeed.
On now through October 29, the inaugural Telus Pitch asks Canadian entrepreneurs to enter the annual contest by sharing how winning the grand prize of $100,000 will help them achieve their business goals and take their small business to the next level of excellence.
The judging panel will also award four other business owners a total of more than $50,000 in additional cash prizes, hardware, technology and marketing services, and select finalists will be provided ongoing…
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TORONTO and CORK, Ireland – Telus International is buying Irish business process outsourcing firm Voxpro, the companies said Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Telus subsidiary is a global business process and IT outsourcing company boasting revenues of over $10 billion and 28,000 employees around the world.
The Ireland headquartered company, now operating as 'Voxpro – powered by Telus International,' provides customer experience, technical support and sales operations solutions to international customers.
With locations in Folsom, California and Athens, Georgia, the partnership grows Telus International's U.S. footprint, providing a more comprehensive onshore offering to existing and prospective…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s publicly traded television service providers combined lost 22% fewer TV subscribers in the first half of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016, bucking the recent trend of accelerating TV cord-cutting in, according to new research released Monday.
Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services also found that BCE, Rogers, Shaw/Shaw Direct, Vidéotron, Cogeco, and Telus combined lost approximately 100,931 TV subscribers in their respective fiscal 2017 first and second quarters, down from the 129,000 lost in the same quarters in 2016.
“The significant turnaround in TV subscriber performance at Shaw Cable as a…
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VANCOUVER — Adding 99,000 net new postpaid wireless subscribers in its most recent quarter represents a 62% increase over the same quarter in 2016 means a great boost to revenue for Telus, but due to the costs of subscriber acquisition, net income was down compared to last year.
Telus reported EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $1.19 billion in the second quarter of 2017, a 0.4% increase over Q2 2016. The company’s adjusted EBITDA was marginally better at $1.23 billion in Q2 2017, a 3.6% increase when compared to its adjusted EBITDA of $1.19 billion in the…
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Bidding starts at $1.54 billion
OTTAWA – The auction of 600 MHz wireless spectrum, when it happens, will favour the smaller newcomers like Freedom Mobile and Vidéotron and looks to offer no payments to TV broadcasters which will be forced off the band.
While the Canadian bandwidth plan is to be harmonized with the United States (something we’ve known for a while), our auction for the valuable low frequency spectrum sure won’t be the same. In its consultation paper released late Friday (Ed note: right before the long weekend, so no questions, media!) Innovation, Science and…
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MONTREAL — BCE’s strong performance in the wireless market in its most recent fiscal quarter helped to offset softening gains in its wireline business, enabling the company to meet analysts’ growth expectations for both its overall revenue and wireless subscriber increases.
BCE reported operating revenues of $5.7 billion in the second quarter of 2017, up 6.7% from $5.34 billion in the same quarter last year. The company’s adjusted EBITDA was $2.38 billion in Q2 2017, representing a 5% increase from its adjusted EBITDA of $2.69 billion in Q2 2016.
These results were in-line with street expectations, according to a “first look”…
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TORONTO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Telus is getting into the network as a service (NaaS) market thanks to a partnership with Nuage Networks, a Nokia venture focused on software-defined networks.
Telus Network as a Service is a new software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that enables businesses to virtually build, manage and cloud-optimize their networks quickly, easily and cost effectively through a flexible self-serve platform, Telus announced in a press release.
Establishing or expanding a network, or changing its configuration, can be a complex, expensive and time-consuming process for Canadian businesses, Telus said. Citing market research from IDC Analyst…
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