MONTREAL – Telus has signed a 20-year partnership with the Old Port of Montréal Corporation (OPMC) to equip the historic site with the latest next-generation wireless technology, including a new free WiFi zone.
Telus will also deploy a C-RAN (Centralized Radio Access Network) technology that will maximize the performance of its LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced) wireless network throughout the Old Port site. This new technology will enable the company to intelligently allocate radio capacity where it is most needed in the network, providing increased coverage even in crowded urban areas and during special events, reads the news release.
As a…
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TORONTO – While Joe Natale plans to spend Thursday with some of Rogers Cable’s technicians, and then visiting stores and call centres in the days after that “to see what it’s like to be our customer”, the new RCI CEO stressed yesterday that success begins by building the right corporate culture.
Speaking to the board, shareholders and employees during the company’s annual general meeting held in the Velma Rogers Graham Theatre at the company’s Toronto headquarters just hours into the start of his tenure, Natale stressed he has “an overarching belief that everything starts and ends with culture. It’s the…
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TORONTO – Beanfield Metroconnect has moved in to the Concord CityPlace condominiums in downtown Toronto, taking over residents’ Internet and home phone services from Telus.
CityPlace is a 44-acre site consisting of 24 condo buildings with approximately 9,200 units. The Toronto-based independent telco said Wednesday that the process of replacing the existing infrastructure with its new fibre is underway, with full roll-out to all condo buildings scheduled to be completed by the end of the summer. The Beanfield fibre-optic network will be delivered to each individual suite.
“We are thrilled to be able to offer our services to the residents of…
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TORONTO – Expectations will be high for Joe Natale when he takes the elevator up to the 10th floor of 333 Bloor St. E. for the first time as CEO of Rogers Communications.
Since he has such a long history in Canadian telecom and wireless and stellar track record leading so much of the growth at Telus since joining that company in 2003 (and departing in 2015), Bay Street expects Natale to waste no time making his presence and his priorities felt.
BMO Capital Markets telecom/media/cable financial analyst Tim Casey even went so far as to construct a top-10…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today that Joe Natale will join the company as president and CEO next week, on Wednesday April 19.
In the press release, Rogers said that a confidential agreement was reached with Telus, Natale’s former employer, to secure his early arrival. He had been slated to join Rogers in June, after his non-compete agreement with Telus had expired. Natale had been with Telus since 2003 and had been promoted to CEO, before leaving that company in August 2015 when former CEO and Telus board chair Darren Entwistle took the job back.
"We are very pleased to have…
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QUEBEC CITY – Telus Health and Université Laval are joining forces to provide comprehensive simulation teaching facilities to the university's pharmacy faculty.
Through an investment of more than $300,000 from Telus Health, Laval pharmacy students will gain hands-on experience throughout their academic program, as well as an opportunity to operate Ubik, Telus Health's next-generation pharmacy management platform.
The Ubik platform is a patient-centric, cloud-based, and adaptable pharmacy management solution that enables physicians and pharmacists to communicate electronically for things like electronic renewals of their patients' prescriptions. The technology is currently being deployed across pharmacies in Quebec and will be customized for…
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THE SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION industry likes to say that outright cord-cutting (defined as when a consumer abandons a TV subscription altogether) is still a pretty small phenomenon.
So far, overall, that remains technically true. The latest numbers show about two percent of Canadian households with a TV subscription have chosen to cut the cord and stop subscribing to traditional TV. Generally, it’s been a story of “flat is the new up”, while inside of the likes of Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Bell and others, hardworking employees are doing their best to swallow hard every day and manage substantial…
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TORONTO – The first ever Telus Ventures Summit kicked off Thursday at Toronto’s MaRS discovery district. The one-day event was an opportunity for entrepreneurs to discuss and share their vision of market opportunities and identify areas of potential collaboration with Telus and other participant venture funds.
Telus Ventures finds, funds, and scales investments in high potential growth markets including healthcare IT, internet of things, big data, financial technology and digital security. With offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal the fund currently partners with 55 companies in Canada and the United States.
The fund partners with companies at various stages of development…
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OTTAWA – While complaints over telecom and Internet services continue to fall, Canadians are still unclear about the terms of their service contracts, says the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS).
In its mid-year report released Thursday, CCTS said it accepted 3,955 complaints between August 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017, down by more than 600 from the 4,562 complaints received in the same period a year earlier.
The report says that non-disclosure or misleading information about contract terms was once again the most commonly raised issue (10.7% of all issues), followed by complaints about incorrect charges at 9.4% and…
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VANCOUVER – Tuesday at the Healthy Minds Health Campuses Summit in Vancouver, Telus announced the donation of its new iOS mindfulness app, thinkFull, to the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division.
ThinkFull is a stress management app aimed at improving the mental health of young adults by helping them monitor and develop coping strategies to manage stress levels, according to the press release.
The app provides personalized mental wellness coaching, allowing people to track their stress levels over time and tap into a library of tips for relieving stress, solving problems and living…
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