TORONTO – Telus unveiled Toronto’s first corporate community garden this week atop its four year old, $250 million office tower in downtown Toronto.
The company said that the rooftop garden at Telus House Toronto will generate fresh, local, organic produce for employees and local charitable organizations, in addition to giving staff a chance to learn about sustainability through educational workshops and hands-on learning. The project is currently being led by an urban farmer hired from Communities Growing Together, and the volunteer-based Telus Green Team works with the building owner Menkes on the upkeep of the garden.
“Our team members saw a…
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TORONTO – Given the pile of money Rogers Communications paid for the rights to the National Hockey League games for the next 12 years, look for the wholesale fees paid for sports by BDUs – and their customers – to shoot up.
A research report recently published by Scotia Capital analyst Jeff Fan says that if you think sports makes up a big portion of BDUs’ programming costs now, just wait. When the sports genre was deregulated by the CRTC back in 2010, CTV/Bell Media served notice that rates for TSN (which had been the same for more than a…
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EMERALD PARK, Sask. – It may have taken a little longer than expected for Ag-Com Productions to bring The Rural Channel (TRC) to life, but it recently celebrated its one year anniversary. On May 29, 2013 the rural lifestyle and agri-food business channel hit Canadian airwaves through an exclusive distribution arrangement with Shaw Direct.
Originally licensed in August 2008, TRC took five years to come to fruition. It had planned to go to air in 2011, but it had to wait on the launch of Shaw Direct’s new satellite. Even so, Bill Wilson (pictured), founder, president…
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ELLIOT LAKE, ON – The DiversityCanada Foundation wants the Governor in Council to quash a section of the Wireless Code of Conduct regarding prepaid wireless service cards, after the CRTC declined to do so.
The Foundation and the National Pensioners Federation submitted a joint petition Monday seeking to overturn a provision in the Code that they say “permits Bell, Rogers, Telus and other wireless providers to place expiry dates on cash held in the accounts of 3.7 million prepaid wireless consumers”.
The petition claims that the CRTC breached its duty of procedural fairness by ignoring evidence that prepaid wireless accounts hold…
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VANCOUVER – More than 15,000 Telus employees, retirees, friends and family members across Canada will participate in some 700 activities in 36 communities across Canada on May 31, during the ninth annual Telus Day of Giving.
Participants will volunteer more than 45,000 hours with local community organizations from Victoria, BC to St. John's, NL. By embracing it’s ‘Give Where We Live’ philosophy, Telus employees and retirees have contributed more than $350 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 5.4 million hours of service to local communities since 2000.
Activities planned for this year include clean, paint and garden at Canuck…
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TORONTO – “It was not a take or leave it situation,” Ken Engelhart, senior VP of regulatory at Rogers Communications Inc., says of the roaming agreement the company signed with new entrant Wind Mobile.
In an interview with Cartt.ca Wednesday, he rebutted a number of the points that Simon Lockie, chief regulatory officer at Wind, made during an appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications on Tuesday. It’s simply not true that Wind had no choice but to accept the agreement it did, Engelhart says.
“I disagree very strongly with the notion that this…
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WINNIPEG – Telus will invest $130 million in new infrastructure and wireless technology across Manitoba through 2016, the company announced Wednesday.
Telus said that the funds will be used to expand its 4G LTE technology across the province; deploy its new 700 MHz spectrum; install “dozens” of new wireless sites to enhance coverage and data capacity in rural and urban areas; and expand the reach of its healthcare solutions, which currently provide electronic medical records to more than 12,500 Canadian physicians across the country and support more than 45 million patient interactions each year.
“Our wireless network has expanded rapidly across…
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MONTREAL — Bell Canada has begun the rollout of its 700 MHz wireless services across the country and will announce “in the next month or so” the communities across Canada, representing 96 or 97% of the population that will be able to use it by the end of 2015, BCE president and CEO George Cope said Monday.
The network upgrade, which will make use of the $565 million worth of spectrum Bell bought in this year’s auction, is just one of many improvements to the company’s services that Cope spoke confidently about in a speech to the Canadian Club of…
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GATINEAU – New entrants and would-be wireless providers find themselves trying to again convince the federal telecom regulator that it needs to intervene in the wireless market. At the same time however, the incumbent operators tell the CRTC everything is working just fine as it is.
The comments come as the CRTC is studying the wholesale wireless services market with the goal of determining if the market is competitive enough or whether it needs to impose more regulations on roaming, tower and site sharing and others. All interventions can be found here. The public hearing is scheduled for September…
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TORONTO – The third time does not appear to be lucky for Telus and Mobilicity.
According to a report Wednesday in the Globe and Mail, Telus has heeded a warning by Ottawa and backed away from its third attempt to takeover the struggling wireless carrier.
The Globe said that the federal government had threatened that if Telus persisted in going after Mobilicity, Ottawa would redesign an April, 2015, auction of 2,500 Mhz frequencies to effectively bar Telus from acquiring any of this spectrum.
The report goes on to quote an unnamed source who claims that the Vancouver-based teleco sent word of its decision to…
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