TORONTO – Telus will invest $1.1 billion in new infrastructure and wireless technology across Ontario through 2016, the company pledged Wednesday.
Telus said that it will invest $500 million across the province this year, the final year of a three-year plan unveiled in 2012, and committed to spending another $600 million throughout 2015 and 2016 to provide fibre optic communications links to business clients, advanced healthcare solutions to consumers, expanded cloud computing data centre infrastructure, and roll out its 4G LTE technology to more Ontario communities.
"Telus is dedicated to bringing Ontarians the most advanced wireless communications infrastructure available in the…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Cable companies reported modest growth in revenues and subscribers in 2013, while satellite companies recorded a decline in both categories, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial results for the industry released Thursday.
According to Broadcast Distribution 2009–2013: Cable, Multipoint Distribution Systems and Direct-to-Home, combined revenues for both cable and satellite companies increased by 4.8% from $14.1 billion in 2012 to $14.8 billion in 2013. The total number of subscribers, (which includes customers subscribed to IPTV services such as Bell’s Fibe TV or Telus’ Optik TV, but excludes independent cable companies with less than 2,000 subs and who…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC must address "the incentives" that Canada’s largest mobile wireless companies have to raise their competitors’ wholesale prices, and, offer new entrants help in gaining a foothold in the market.
That’s the gist of a submission made public Thursday by the Competition Bureau to the CRTC, in response to the Commission’s review of wholesale mobile wireless services.
Noting that mobile wireless companies, particularly new entrants, may need to enter into arrangements with the likes of Bell, Rogers and Telus to obtain certain wholesale mobile wireless services, the Bureau said that the retail market power that these large incumbents wield…
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CALGARY – Telus is set to invest more than $2.6 billion in new infrastructure and facilities across Alberta through 2016, the company said Monday.
Telus will spend $1 billion across the province this year, the final year of a three-year plan unveiled in 2012, and has committed to invest another $1.6 billion in 2015 and 2016 to build infrastructure, expand urban and rural Internet connectivity and capacity, and bring its wireless technology to more communities. Specifically, Telus pledged to rapidly deploy 700MHz spectrum for use in rural and urban areas; connect thousands of homes and businesses in various communities with higher-capacity Internet…
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TORONTO – Customers with shorter contracts have lower wireless bills and are more satisfied with their service, while SaskTel and Telus’ Koodo Mobile ranked highest in wireless customer satisfaction for the third year in a row, according to a new study released by J.D. Power & Associates.
Among full-service carriers, SaskTel’s score was highest at 727, which was 15 points higher than its 2013 score. The survey noted that SaskTel performed particularly well in terms of network quality, account management, offerings and promotions, customer service, and handset factors.
Koodo Mobile from Telus scored highest among stand-alone carriers with 778 points, up…
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VANCOUVER – Telus recorded a 4.1% jump in profits driven by results in both its wireless and wireline services.
Consolidated operating revenue grew 5.0% to $2.89 billion, up from $2.76 billion last year, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 4.2% to $1.07 billion from $1.03 billion. Net income jumped to $377 million from $362 million in the first quarter of 2013.
The Vancouver-based telco said consolidated revenue growth was generated by 5.6% growth in wireless revenue and 4.4% growth in wireline revenue. In Wireless, revenue was primarily driven by subscriber growth and increased data usage from continued…
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MONTREAL – Telus is set to invest more than $1.3 billion in new infrastructure and facilities across Quebec through 2016, the company said Tuesday.
Telus will spend $640 million across the province this year, the final year of a three-year plan unveiled in 2012, and has committed to invest another $700 million in 2015 and 2016 on infrastructure. Specifically, Telus pledged to connect more households and businesses to fibre optics; expand its 4G LTE network to over 80% of the province’s population by the end of 2014; rapidly deploy 700MHz spectrum for use in rural and urban areas; continue the rollout…
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MONTREAL – By fixating on promoting the emergence of a fourth wireless carrier in each of Canada's regional markets, the federal government has lost sight of the ultimate goal of promoting the development of a dynamic, efficient telecommunications industry, says a new research paper released Tuesday by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).
The paper, The State of Competition in Canada's Telecommunications Industry – 2014, says that the current government has committed itself to relying on market forces as much as possible to achieve its telecom policy objectives. But this orientation has been contradicted by set-asides, spectrum caps, mandatory network…
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OTTAWA – “Combined, the new entrants spent about $3 billion to acquire spectrum, build networks and go after subscribers,” said John Bitove, the chairman of foundering wireless company Mobilicity – as well as the yet-to-launch Feenix Wireless, which purchased spectrum in this year’s 700 MHz spectrum auction.
He was speaking to delegates at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Biennial National Conference on New Developments in Communications Law and Policy held in Ottawa last week in a session on the success, or failure, of Canadian wireless policy. Panellists, which also included economist Steven Globerman, Rogers’ Ken Engelhart, and lawyer George…
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TORONTO and GATINEAU – Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. has lobbed pretty serious accusations at VMedia Inc., alleging the company is using the public Internet to deliver TV services and that it’s distributing unauthorized foreign services to its subscribers. VMedia says ECGL has all it all wrong.
Now though, the CRTC has decided to hear more fully from both parties. In a letter posted on its website on May 5, the Commission has removed VMedia’s applications for additional BDU services in several Atlantic Canadian markets as well some in Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as a national video on…
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