MONTREAL – The Jewish General Hospital (JGH) and Telus today announced the successful implementation of a new telecommunications network to improve wireless reception in the hospital.
Thanks to a $1 million investment by Telus, healthcare professionals, patients and visitors now have access to free Wi-Fi service in several key locations, such as major entrances, waiting rooms and food-service areas, reads the press release.
"We are delighted to provide this new service to patients, visitors and the entire staff, thanks to fast, reliable and free access to Wi-Fi in clearly identified areas," says Bob Lapointe, director of information resources for the…
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MONTREAL – The acquisition of MTS combined with slowing television and Internet subscribers helped to pull down first quarter profits by 4.4%, BCE said Wednesday.
Net earnings fell to $725 million in Q1 while net earnings attributable to common shareholders dropped 4.0% to $679 million due to higher severance, acquisition and other costs and an increased average number of BCE common shares outstanding, both due to the acquisition of MTS. Excluding severance, acquisition and other costs, net losses or gains on investments, impairment charges and early debt redemption costs, adjusted net earnings increased 3.3% to $758 million.
Operating revenue was up…
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$20/month Pik TV aimed at cord-nevers
VANCOUVER – Telus has soft-launched a new, live, subscription television service to seven communities in British Columbia and Alberta.
Called Pik TV, it provides live TV and on demand content, as well an interface to popular streaming services like Netflix and YouTube, without a contract, starting at $20/month. The new service offers a slimmed-down feature set from Optik TV, giving customers more choice to design an entertainment experience around how they want to watch. It runs on smartphones, tablets and an Android TV powered box the company is distributing.
The news was…
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TORONTO – Irwin Gotlieb’s company is in charge of a third of the world’s advertising budget and he came to Toronto last week to tell Canada’s broadcasters to get on with addressable advertising, measure better, and work co-operatively, or his company will soon be spending its clients’ money elsewhere.
In an appearance at the Future of TV Ads Conference Thursday at Steam Whistle Brewery and in an interview with Cartt.ca, the global chairman of Group M implored Canadian broadcasters – especially those with TV distribution arms as well – to follow the lead of much of the rest of the…
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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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Top 10 priorities
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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