TORONTO – Telus will open the doors Thursday on a new concept store designed for small and medium-sized businesses in Toronto.
The store will feature consultants trained in the specific needs of small to medium sized businesses and consumers, in-store learning centres with one-on-one or group tutorials to help business customers learn how to get the most out of their communications technology, and display stations equipped with live devices offering hands-on experience.
The Telus Business Store is located at 500 Yonge Street (between Wellesley Street East and College Street).
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OTTAWA – Telus, Cogeco, Eastlink and MTS Allstream have all told the CRTC that they are opposed to BCE and Rogers’ proposal to take control of sports channels Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada and Gol TV Canada from parent Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE).
The interventions filed by the independent distributors claim that the move, which comes as part of the BCE/Rogers $1.32 billion bid for a majority stake in MLSE, “are bad for the Canadian broadcasting industry, further extending the control exerted by these large vertically integrated conglomerates”.
“Increasing the already extensive market power enjoyed by vertically integrated programming…
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GATINEAU – In what could be described as a case of “turnabout is fair play”, Globalive has formally questioned the Canadian bona fides of Telus and has asked the CRTC to hold a public hearing on the matter.
Globalive (which, of course, does business under the Wind brand) says that Telus’s recent aborted attempt to convert to a single share structure blew the lid off of the Vancouver-based telco’s non-compliance with the country’s telecom ownership rules and that it may well be in breach of the Telecom Act. So, a full public hearing must be held…
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WINNIPEG – Telus said Thursday that it will invest more than $7 million in its 4G wireless network in Manitoba.
In addition, the telco has pledged to contribute $25 on behalf of every new smart phone customer in Winnipeg, up to $160,000, to the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation through the ‘Phones for Good’ campaign. The campaign will run until December 5 and will help fund paediatric oncology clinical trials to help children with cancer receive safe treatments.
"Telus' $7 million investment will enhance our world-class wireless network for Manitobans living and working in the province," said VP Michael Sangster, in the release. …
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OTTAWA – The “tsunami of traffic” resulting from very high levels of social media over wireless devices and the connectivity of an increasingly large number of those devices is forcing mobile operators to deal with growing congestion.
This was one of the key messages from Eros Spadotto, executive vice-president of technology and operations at Telus during a keynote presentation to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Communications on Tuesday in Ottawa. He said the possible connection of 20 to 200 billion devices to the Internet using wireless networks could create headaches…
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SASKATOON – Telus has opened two new retail locations in Saskatoon designed to assist local businesses in choosing the technology that best meets their needs.
Located in the city’s north end on Faithfull Avenue and downtown on 2nd Avenue, the Business Stores feature consultants trained in the specific needs of small to medium sized businesses and consumers, in-store learning centres with one-on-one or group tutorials to help business customers learn how to get the most out of their communications technology, and display stations equipped with live devices offering hands-on experience.
"Today's smartphones and tablets are loaded with technology and features that…
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TORONTO – Incumbent telcos Bell and Telus have proven that cable's "big pipe advantage”, is in fact, overrated, according to Canaccord Genuity telecom analyst Dvai Ghose.
In a research note to clients this week entitled ‘Revenge of the Telcos’, Ghose said that Telus and Bell continue to take TV and broadband share from the likes of Rogers and Shaw, at the same time as cable telephony has matured. Part of this shift can be attributed to the telcos’ Mediaroom platform which offers desirable features such as whole home and remote PVR, a superior interactive guide and social media interoperability. While next generation cable boxes…
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TORONTO – It might be a sign of the ingrained competitive spirit of the telecom industry in Canada that even when wireless carriers manage to agree on a vital issue – the need for a national code to protect wireless consumers’ interests – they still manage to bicker with one another.
During the Canadian Telecom Summit’s “regulatory blockbuster” panel discussion on Tuesday morning, moderated by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, regulatory experts from the big three incumbents – Rogers, Bell and Telus – along with MTS Allstream, Wind Mobile Canada and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), appeared to…
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TORONTO – “With legal and regulatory certainty, the time for Wind on the defence is at an end. The big three no longer have the luxury of a distracted and artificially crippled new competitor,” Globalive chairman and CEO Anthony Lacavera said on the final day of the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. “The time for Wind on offence has arrived.”
But it isn’t only the big three incumbents – Rogers, Bell and Telus – that Wind Mobile is suiting up to take on. Wind is also looking to differentiate itself from its fellow new entrants by shifting its marketing and…
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OTTAWA – Add law professor Michael Geist to the list of stakeholders who support relaxing foreign ownership restrictions in the Canadian telecom market.
In his appearance Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications as part of its pre-study on the changes to the Telecommunications Act contained in Bill C-38, Geist, who is also Canada Research Chair in Internet law and e-commerce, called Canadian rules on telecom foreign ownership “the most restrictive in the developed economy world”.
Citing a recent OECD study that ranked Canada the second most restrictive market for both communications and mobile telecom behind only China, Geist…
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