TORONTO – Newcomers to Canada use their mobile phone more than the general Canadian population, stream more content, and enjoy watching basketball, according to a new report released Tuesday.
Solution Research Group’s Newcomers to Canada research study explores consumer behaviours, social attitudes and demographics of newcomers in the last 10 years. The study polled 1,149 newcomers from China, South Asia, The Philippines, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as Latin and Central America.
According to the report, the newcomer market is increasing in importance socially and economically because of their record numbers (2.6 million since 2007) and habits that…
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TORONTO and SIMI VALLEY, CA – Telus International is buying U.S.-based global IT consulting and software services company Xavient Information Systems for approximately US$250 million, the companies said Monday.
The Telus subsidiary is a global business process and IT services company with almost 28,000 employees around the world, including in Canada, the United States, Europe, Central America, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
Xavient is headquartered in Simi Valley, California and has operations throughout the U.S. and in India, serving customers primarily in the telecommunications, media, entertainment, healthcare, and banking and financial services sectors.
Telus International said that the acquisition of Xavient will…
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VANCOUVER – Santa Claus is coming to town thanks to Telus.
The Vancouver Santa Claus Parade was at risk of being cancelled this year due to a lack of sponsorship funding from previous donors, and organizers were in need of $150,000. Telus said that it has stepped up to cover the shortfall, ensuring that the parade will go on.
“At Telus, we give where we live to help people in need in local communities all across Canada," said community and media relations VP Jill Schnarr, in the news release. "Because Vancouver is our home, we received overwhelming encouragement from our customers and our…
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OKOTOKS, AB – Telus will invest $60 million to connect more than 90% of homes and businesses in the Town of Okotoks, Black Diamond and Turner Valley directly to its fibre optic network.
The gigabit-enabled Telus PureFibre network will enable connected residents to immediately take advantage of dramatically faster Internet speeds of up to 150 megabits per second, while interested businesses, schools, healthcare providers, and institutions can access even more speed and capacity, reads the news release. The network offers symmetrical service, which means customers can upload just as fast as they download.
“This investment will dramatically improve Internet speed and…
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Will aid 2018 mobile wireless rollout in the province
WOODSTOCK, N.B. and BRANDON, Man. – There were a fair number of eyebrows raised across the Canadian telecom industry when Xplornet Communications was announced as the third player brought in to satisfy Competition Bureau worries over the Bell Canada purchase of MTS.
The company has long been a successful satellite and fixed wireless broadband supplier, but has never offered mobile wireless – or even indicated publicly a desire to move into that market.
In its initial deal announced in 2016, Bell only announced a spin-off of customers and retail locations to Telus to…
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VANCOUVER – Telus has signed a multi-year reseller agreement with Universal-mCloud Corp. targeting the building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) sector.
mCloud's AssetCare solution monitors the performance of HVAC units in commercial buildings using big data, deep analytics, machine learning, real-time collaboration and communications, 3D Augmented Reality and best practice maintenance support.
The agreement will see Telus deliver AssetCare to Canadian buildings with critical HVAC requirements on a subscription basis.
“The offering combines the leading capabilities of Telus IoT connectivity with the deep domain asset expertise of mCloud in a connected cloud solution with 24/7 vigilance that improves the health…
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GATINEAU – It looks as though a portion of a CRTC decision that flew under the radar for many people has wrecked what was an excellent promotional outlet for Canadian specialty services and charities.
In decision CRTC 2015-86, part of the Let’s Talk TV process, the Commission surprised the industry by tightening the rules surrounding how the two minutes of local advertising time made available each hour by U.S. channels such as CNN, A&E, Golf Channel and TLC could be used.
Dubbed “local avail” time, American cablecos and other pay TV carriers have turned the sales of…
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TORONTO – Freedom Mobile today announced the launch of what it’s calling “Big Gig”, a brand new plan giving customers 10GB of data for $50/month.
The new plan gives both new and existing Freedom Mobile customers access to more data for less with no penalties for data overages, “and is unlike anything currently being offered to Canadians,” says the company’s release. The Big Gig plans are available beginning Thursday, October 19. As Rogers Communications, Bell Canada and Telus are all about to report their third quarter results over the next two weeks, we bet there will be questions on how…
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GATINEAU – CRTC commisioner Christopher MacDonald’s persistent questioning on day one of the hearing into license renewals for several BDUs roughly translated to: “What’s taking so long with the set top box viewership data?”
Quebecor, Rogers, Shaw and Eastlink, all members of the Set Top box working group (check), each had very similar answers to MacDonald’s line of questions. Essentially the answers boiled down to: “What we’re doing is hard, pioneering, and with an uncertain business model, so yes, it’s a slow process.”
The group first met more than two years ago.
During the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV process,…
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OTTAWA – Bell Canada and Rogers Communications showed off some different philosophies when it came to the federal government’s NAFTA negotiations when they appeared recently in front of a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
Rogers Cable vice-president, regulatory, Pam Dinsmore said in her opening remarks on September 20th that her company is concerned the trade talks will wander too far from its prior mandate and into copyright, which includes such issues as retransmitting U.S. over-the-air TV signals, Canada’s notice-and-notice regime for pirated online content, and our Copyright Modernization Act’s provisions for personal use and its…
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