Ahead of Black Friday weekend, Telus announced Tuesday the return of its Buy One, Give One campaign, which aims to give new meaning to the traditional concept of BOGO.
From Nov. 28 to 30, for every new or certified pre-owned phone purchased by customers, Telus will give a free phone and plan to a Canadian youth transitioning out of government care through its Mobility for Good program, Telus said.
“Now in its 5th year, TELUS’ Buy One, Give One initiative empowers Canadians to shop with purpose — knowing their purchase is helping bridge…
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Telus announced Wednesday the official groundbreaking of a new Telus Living development in Vancouver’s Point Grey neighbourhood, which will see a former telephone exchange transformed into a mixed-use building with 55 rental units and four retail spaces, helping to provide much-needed housing in the community.
Telus Living is Telus’s initiative to transform existing real estate holdings, such as telephone central offices, into purpose-built rentals that bridge the housing gap with smart, sustainable and community-focused development. Telus’s copper-to-fibre network migration is helping to unlock opportunities to redevelop these properties that once housed…
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Telus last week announced the official start of installation work on its 125-kilometre-long submarine fibre-optic cable that will run from Sept-Îles to Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, providing redundancy to the telecom network serving communities between Baie-Comeau and Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon on Quebec’s North Shore.
This project, initially announced in 2020 and approved earlier this year, is backed by a joint investment of more than $20 million by Telus and the federal government.
“This deployment marks the culmination of several years of careful planning and represents a major technological turning point for the North…
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Terrion currently building a multi-carrier tower in Nanaimo
By Ahmad Hathout
Telus executives said Friday that they are confident the telco can compete on its suite of services in light of Bell’s entrance in the internet market out west.
“We are obviously supportive of competition,” Executive Vice President and CFO Doug French said on the company’s third-quarter earnings conference call on Friday. “We still want to obviously win in retail, and our bundling and our product superiority will continue to compete well there.”
The comments came after Bell announced last month that it was going to wholesale Telus fibre and…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Bell’s president and CEO said Thursday that the telco is targeting the new year for the full launch of fibre-based internet service for its mobile wireless customers in western Canada.
Mirko Bibic said during the company’s third-quarter earnings conference call that Bell already has a trial in Kelowna, British Columbia for fibre internet service using Telus’s network, and that the telco is targeting January for a full launch.
“We are going to do all this in a very disciplined way,” Bibic said.
During its investor day conference last month, Bell said it was launching the service this…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The Federal Court of Appeal will hear a SaskTel challenge that alleges the CRTC’s decision to mandate access its bundled fibre facilities was based on a cabinet direction that conflicts with the Telecommunications Act.
The court approved the telco’s leave to appeal application on Friday, just over a year after it was filed in September 2024.
The gist of the argument is that the CRTC allegedly preordained a decision based on what it was told by the federal government, which, through section 10 of the 2023 cabinet direction, ordered it to adopt a specific policy of…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Cable companies will have to tough out the extended implementation time of the next-generation 911 networks after the CRTC rejected Monday a review-and-vary application from Rogers and Quebecor that said an extension was undue because they have to pay for two different emergency networks simultaneously until the old one is phased out.
Rogers and Quebecor filed the application in April, arguing that the CRTC’s extension by two years to fully replace the old system is unjust because no one in the proceeding asked for an extension that long and it would cost cablecos millions of…
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The CRTC said in a letter last Friday it is temporarily suspending the Nov. 4 implementation deadline for its new telecom service outage reporting requirements as it considers an Oct. 7 review-and-vary application jointly filed by major telecoms Rogers, Bell, Telus, Eastlink, Cogeco, Quebecor and SaskTel.
The group has requested changes be made to the new outage reporting requirements to address operational challenges and to reduce the administrative burden on them, while also asking the CRTC to extend the implementation deadline.
The CRTC is granting an extension,…
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The CRTC in an Oct. 30 letter has asked Bell and Telus to provide information in response to allegations of tariff violations the companies may have committed contrary to the commission’s wholesale fibre access regulatory policy.
It isn’t clear who complained against whom initially, but the telecom regulator gave Bell and Telus until Oct. 31 to provide copies of all communications between the two companies relating to any dispute involving the provision of wholesale high-speed access (HSA) fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) services at speeds of 1.5 Gbps or higher since Oct. 1, 2025.
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By Ahmad Hathout
The head of Cogeco said Thursday that the internet resale policy has not impacted the company’s ability to grow as a reseller nor has it turned customers off its brand.
“At a higher level, internet resale in Canada between the different players is a fact of life and it’s been a fact of life for quite some time,” said President and CEO Frederic Perron during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Thursday. “Two of the big three that we don’t already compete with on an infrastructure basis are already reselling our network in Quebec and Ontario and have…
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