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TORONTO — Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) announced today Navin Arora (above), executive vice-president of Telus and president of Telus Business Solutions, will be the opening keynote speaker at this year’s conference, taking place Nov. 21-23 at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto.
Scheduled to speak Monday, Nov. 21 at 9 a.m. ET, Arora leads a national team of more than 6,000 Telus team members and “is accountable for the end-to-end multi-billion dollar B2B portfolio nationally, including sales, marketing, product development, customer experience, strategy and operations for all TELUS business…
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TORONTO – Organizers of The Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) today announced Pamela Snively (above), Telus’ chief data and trust officer, will give a keynote speech at this year’s conference, which is being held Nov. 21-23 at the International Centre in Toronto.
Snively, a lawyer who dedicated much of her career to the development and operationalization of privacy best practices, leads the Telus team “responsible for privacy governance and data ethics, along with data management and a number of compliance functions, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs,” an email announcing her as a speaker for the conference says.
“Pam…
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TALLCREE TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, Alberta — Telus Communications and Tallcree Tribal Government in Alberta announced earlier this month funding from the CRTC’s Broadband Fund will help to bring wireless connectivity to Tallcree First Nation in northern Alberta for the first time.
“With a wireless connection, small businesses can thrive and compete both locally and globally, families can stay connected to loved ones who live out of town, young people can stay in their hometowns longer and participate in distance education, and perhaps most critically, a wireless connection provides a lifeline to call for help in the event of an emergency,” reads…
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VANCOUVER — Telus Health announced last week it opened a free 24/7 mental health crisis support hotline through its LifeWorks subsidiary to provide professional emotional support to anyone affected by the tragic stabbings that occurred recently in Saskatchewan.
“We know that a crisis or traumatic event like this can trigger overwhelming emotional responses,” reads a Telus Health press release.
Anyone in Canada affected by this event can call the free crisis line at 1-844-751-2133, where they will receive counselling support and/or referral to community resources, the release explains.
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OTTAWA – Telus has told the CRTC this week that Timeless Inc.’s complaint that Rogers’s refusal to carry its OneSoccer channel gives it an undue preference should be investigated by the regulator as “timely,” as Rogers pushes to buy Shaw Communications.
Rogers has refused to carry the channel because it said it has limited appeal with its viewers. Timeless, which said it has been trying to get a carriage agreement with Rogers for over a year, has argued in its original complaint last month that there is a “surge in popularity and success for Canadian soccer” and that Rogers…
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VANCOUVER — Telus Health today launched Telus Health MyPet, a new virtual veterinary care service app that allows dog and cat owners in British Columbia to have their furry friends’ non-urgent health problems treated remotely by provincially licensed vets.
Telus Health MyPet’s qualified vets provide care “for anything from nutritional management and parasite control to behavioural challenges, and can prescribe certain medications,” explains a press release.
The service is designed with the support of veterinarians “to reduce the number of non-urgent visits to emergency clinics, and to ensure pet owners who live in remote areas, or whose pets don’t travel well…
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Will rule on the tariff application within 45 business days
OTTAWA – The CRTC has informed Telus it will not approve the telecom’s request for permission to charge customers a 1.5% credit card processing fee on an interim basis due to the “many” interventions it has received in opposition of the request.
In a letter dated Aug. 15, the CRTC said it will make a decision on Telus’ application to change its general tariff to include the added charge within 45 business days of receipt of the filing.
Telus submitted its application on Aug. 8. Since then, over 2,500 interventions on…
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BURNABY, NEW WESTMINSTER, RICHMOND, SURREY and VANCOUVER — Telus announced last Friday several investments it is making in B.C. cities as part of its previously announced $17.5-billion investment in infrastructure, operations and spectrum across the province of British Columbia through 2026.
Telus is investing $40 million in Burnaby, $13 million in New Westminster, $4 million in Richmond, $33 million in Surrey and $105 million in Vancouver.
All of the press releases for these announcements say the investments “will connect more local homes and businesses to the PureFibre network and expand access to Telus’ 5G network.”
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Rogers wins for upload speed experience, Bell wins for download speed experience
LONDON, U.K. – Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company has released two new reports on mobile experience in Canada – its Mobile Network Experience Report and its 5G Experience Report, both authored by technical analyst Hardik Khatri and based on data collected from April 1 to June 29, 2022.
Telus has the most consistent mobile network experience in the country, according to the Mobile Network Experience Report, which provides an analysis of the overall experience of Opensignal users across all network technologies for the three national carriers.
The analytics…
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TELUS ANNOUNCED TODAY it is investing $9 million in Lloydminster and Stony Plain, Alberta and $27 million in Whistler, Squamish and Prince George, British Columbia in 2022.
In Alberta, the company is investing $3 million in Lloydminster and $6 million in Stony Plain. These investments are part of a previously announced $17-billion investment Telus is making in operations, infrastructure and spectrum in Alberta now through 2026. (For Telus’ press release on its Lloydminster announcement, please click here, and for its Stony Plain announcement, please click here.)
In British Columbia, Telus is investing $8 million in Whistler and Squamish and…
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