Telus announced Tuesday it is now including advanced scam protection across calls, texts and emails in all new mobility data plans, in partnership with cybersecurity expert Norton.
Built directly into the My Telus app, Telus Scam Protection includes features that help identify and block scam calls, flag suspicious messages on customers’ phones and give users 24/7 on-demand access to a chat-based assistant for digital safety information.
The tool’s four distinct features include:
Safe Call: helps identify suspicious calls, automatically block calls identified as scams, and label incoming calls as scams, spam or a verified business, giving…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Telus is asking the CRTC to reconsider part of a July decision that determined Every-Day Computers (Ev-Com) satisfied the spectrum requirement to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) under the regulated framework — and to scrutinize broadly the spectrum being used to claim eligibility.
Ev-Com filed the initial application in January asking the CRTC to order Telus to provide access to its wireless network under the MNVO regime. But while the regulator ruled in July that Ev-Com did not satisfy all the requirements to get mandated access – namely, that it…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is claiming in a Part 1 made public Monday that Concord Pacific Development Corp. is forcing it to pay a $300 per-unit fee to access two properties under construction in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The cable giant claims, since July 2024, it has been seeking access to the properties at 5889 Barker Avenue and 4750-4754 Kingsway, but Concord “has consistently refused to discuss access by Rogers to the Properties unless Rogers agrees to pay an upfront per unit entry fee of $300 to obtain Concord’s permission to access the multi-dwelling units after construction is complete.
“Concord has also stated…
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The CRTC sent a letter to the national and regional telecoms this week requesting an update on the progress of the MVNO regime that is four years out from sunsetting.
From Rogers, Bell, Telus and Sasktel, the regulator is asking for a list of MVNO agreements entered into with regional carriers. It is asking the same from Quebecor, Cogeco, Eastlink and Iristel, as well as the areas where these regionals are using the wireless capacity to deliver services, where new radio access networks (RAN) have been deployed, the total capital investment to expand into these new areas, the number of…
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Canada’s big banks and the three largest telecoms will be able to share information through a single platform to protect Canadians against fraud.
The Cross-Sector Anti-Fraud Exchange (CSAFE), launched this week, aims to help identify and prevent repeat fraud through the shared platform. Its goal, according to a press release, is to disrupt fraudsters, identify repeat fraud at critical decision points across account opening, authentication and transaction, reduce fraud risks with aggregated insights drawn from a broader set of confirmed events across participating institutions, and facilitate timely sharing of confirmed fraud intelligence so participants can respond.
CSAFE was developed by EnStream,…
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Newspapers already filed suit against OpenAI
By Ahmad Hathout
Canada’s major newspapers are alleging in a lawsuit filed against Anthropic that the company is scraping their content to train its artificial intelligence models without consent, according to a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice this month.
The San Francisco-based company behind the family of large language models (LLMs) known as Claude is scraping text data from the news websites and then using that “proprietary content to develop its models, without authorization or consent,” says the October 6 statement of claim from Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and…
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Telus and AST SpaceMobile announced Monday they have successfully completed their first integration test between Telus’s wireless network and AST SpaceMobile’s satellite-based network, marking a milestone in their partnership to enable direct satellite-to-smartphone connectivity.
By combining AST SpaceMobile’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and Telus’s wireless network, this space-based technology will allow Canadian customers to use eligible smartphones beyond the reach of traditional cell towers, helping to close existing coverage gaps and to enhance access to critical emergency services, Telus said in a press release.
“Connecting smartphones directly to satellites…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Corus is suing Telus for $32.5 million after allegedly discovering that the broadcaster had been improperly collecting a wholesale rate discount on the distribution of its channels.
Corus and Telus are currently negotiating the terms on which the latter will continue to distribute the former’s services. The last distribution agreement, which currently governs their relationship, has not yet been renewed past its expiry on December 31, 2023.
Under the current distribution agreement, Telus pays a lower wholesale rate if it rolls Corus’s services in a package with at least five services – “theme packs” and “pick packs” – which…
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Telus Health announced last week a new mobile health clinic will soon be bringing primary care directly to residents of the Kikino and Buffalo Lake Metis Settlements in northeast Alberta, starting in late September.
Expected to visit the two communities two days a week, the Wâhkôhtowin Mobile Health Clinic powered by Telus Health will provide non-emergency healthcare services, including routine health check-ups, assessment and treatment of common health concerns, chronic disease management and care planning, and health screening, prevention and wellness supports.
The custom-built clinic-on-wheels will be operated by Primary Care Alberta and its services shaped and delivered in collaboration with…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Canada’s largest telecoms are welcoming news that the federal government will invest in a national internet backbone.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto on Tuesday that the government will spend money from private investment, including in the country’s four largest airports, on “new nation-building infrastructure, including a sovereign broadband backbone” that connects Canadians across the country “with more direct and secure links to Europe and Asia.”
When reached for comment, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) only added Wednesday: “Further details regarding the initiative will be provided in due course.”
One…
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