AS CANADIANS CHOOSE to carry their worlds in their pockets – loaded onto their much loved and much used Androids, iPhones, BlackBerrys and so on, they are demanding service that’s always excellent and bills that are always affordable.
When things go wrong with the little device in our hands, when we get dinged for charges we didn’t expect, when it doesn’t work as fast as advertised, when it breaks, it’s a mini-disaster. It’s not like tearing a hole in your pants or getting a flat tire. Those things can be dealt with and are relatively easy to fix. When it…
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VANCOUVER – Mason Capital lost its appeal Tuesday in its ongoing battle with Telus to thwart the carrier’s plans to move to a single class of common shares.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia approved Telus’ proposal to exchange its non-voting shares for common shares on a one-for one basis. In a 125-page written decision, the court concluded that the exchange was fair and reasonable and rejected New York hedge fund Mason Capital’s arguments and appeals made in opposing the proposal.
“The arrangement has arisen through a robust process that has been independently and favourably reviewed….
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KAMLOOPS and WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. – As part of a strategic partnership with the province, Telus has invested a total of more than $3.1 million to bring its 4G LTE network to stretches of highway through Little Fort, Avola and to more than 12 kilometres of highway from Williams Lake to McLeese Lake. Telus’ 4G wireless network is also now live in Hinton and Jasper, Alberta and Moncton, New Brunswick.
The two new wireless sites in Little Fort and Avola provide service to about 17 kilometres of Highway 24 from the Interlakes area to Little Fort…
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VANCOUVER – Telus' seesawing foreign ownership levels have once again come down to the 15% level the carrier announced for mid-November. Based on large reservation applications by non-Canadian investors, most likely from New York hedge fund Mason Capital, Telus' potential foreign ownership level briefly spiked to more than 30% at the end of November. These reservation applications have now expired unfilled and therefore all requests by non-Canadians to purchase common shares are being considered and approved, if they do not risk causing the company to exceed the foreign ownership regulatory cap of 33…
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LLOYDMINSTER, AB AND ST. CATHARINES, ON – Telus continues to expand its 4G footprint across the country with the communities of Lloydminster and St. Catharines now part of the network. Additional communities in Alberta and Ontario will be getting access to 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) in the coming months adds Telus.
Today’s announcement is part of the company’s $2.4 million investment in Lloydminster to expand its wireline network and to bring 4G to the community and part of a further $650 million investment in Ontario over the next three years.
“With a 4G LTE…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is using intimidation and bullying to “stop Mobilicity’s conversation that you don’t need a contract to get wireless” charges Stewart Lyons, Mobilicity President and COO. He was responding to a lawsuit that Telus has filed against the new carrier for “false and misleading” TV ads.
The ads claim that “unlimited plans” offered by the incumbent carriers don’t cover all costs such as text messages, while positioning Mobilicity’s own voice and data services as truly unlimited.
Lyons told Cartt.ca the lawsuit was “bizarre” given that his company has “been repeating the same message…
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OTTAWA – On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada will release its ruling on whether or not the CRTC has the jurisdiction to let conventional, over-the-air local broadcasters pursue a fee for the carriage of their signals by subscription television providers. The appeal was heard back in April, as Cartt.ca reported.
The ability for local broadcasters to charge a cable, satellite or telco TV provider a wholesale fee (and by extension of course, Canadian subscribers) has been something TV station owners have pursued off and on for decades. The CBC asked for the ability to pursue…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has ruled that Telus has placed OUTtv at a competitive disadvantage by marketing the Category A service more like a B service, by making it an optional package on its Optik TV service. It found that Telus violated undue preference regulations related to the packaging and marketing of OUTtv Network Inc. by providing operators of other programming services a preference, contrary to section 9 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations. It has given Telus until February 8 to provide a detailed marketing plan on how it will remedy the unfair advantage.
The decision sets…
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GATINEAU – While most agree that Canada definitely needs a national, mandatory code of conduct for wireless providers to adhere to when dealing with their customers, agreement on what this code will actually say is another matter entirely.
Submissions were due into the CRTC last week on the Commission’s proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services. A public hearing will start February 11th – after the Regulator itself releases a draft code for discussion next month and conducts three more days of public, online consultations.
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VANCOUVER – After apparently selling off its shares in Telus last month, Mason Capital is now “re-establishing a significant long position in common shares and shifting their short position primarily to common shares,” reports Telus.
The carrier cautions that due to the sudden increase in foreign ownership levels, Telus' transfer agent (Computershare) may not be able to approve new applications by non-Canadians to purchase Telus common shares, if that purchase would risk causing the company to exceed the federally mandated 33.3% foreign ownership level.
Telus says the re-established long common share position at November month-end…
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