VANCOUVER – Mason Capital Management, the largest Telus shareholder, said it will go ahead with plans to hold a rival meeting of Telus shareholders after the British Columbia Court of Appeal today overturned an earlier court ruling.
“We are pleased by the Court’s ruling, which fully vindicates our position that the voting shareholders of Telus should have the opportunity to vote on a fair exchange ratio share in a share collapse transaction," Mason said in a statement.
It added that voting shareholders will now have the opportunity to have a “say on the critical issue…
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GATINEAU – They’re confused, angry and just won`t take it anymore. So, as first reported by Cartt.ca yesterday morning, the CRTC has taken the unprecedented action of calling on the public to help it create a comprehensive code of conduct for wireless service providers.
Input will be accepted until November 20, 2012 and the public consultation process will begin on January 28, 2013, in Gatineau, Quebec. The Commission will also be announcing shortly details regarding an online consultation to further promote discussion among Canadians on the issues and questions raised by its proceeding.
"Our…
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MY FIRST MEETING WITH SHAW Communications president Peter Bissonnette in the winter of 1998 seems like a lifetime ago. It was in Richmond Hill, then the home base of Shaw’s substantial Ontario cable operations. I think it was February.
This was before Bissonnette was even president of the company. Before Shaw and Rogers traded their Ontario and British Columbia cable systems to each other. Before Izzy Asper and JR Shaw split up WIC (Western International Communications). Before the Shaw family spun its media assets into Corus Entertainment. Before a Jean Monty-led BCE bought CTV the first time, claiming – a…
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QUEBEC – Telus has purchased Quebec’s KinLogix, a cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) provider used by some 200 medical clinics in the province. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. It’s the second EMR provider Telus has added following the February 2012 acquisition of Western Canada's Wolf Medical Systems.
The KinLogix EMR is a cloud-based solution used in medical clinics that captures, organizes, and displays critical patient data in one integrated patient record, while streamlining administrative tasks, improving care delivery and patient-physician relations.
Telus says the acquisition furthers its efforts to accelerate the adoption of EMR solutions to “continue to…
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VANCOUVER – Why channel surf, when you can channel swipe or tap? Telus has launched its Optik Smart Remote app that turns your iPhone or iPad into the “ultimate” TV control.
Optik Smart Remote enables customers to surf through all their content choices on their iPhone, iPad or iPod instead of the onscreen TV guide. The guide utilizes filters to display only what you’re looking to find and by linking your mobile device with your digital set top box, you can use swipes on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to change the channel.
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OTTAWA – An invitational summit of prominent decision-makers from Canada and France will gather in Ottawa to discuss how policy makers can grow local content industries in the face of increasing digital disruption. The summit, from November 14-16, is being organized by The Embassy of France in Canada and the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC).
Approximately 70 individuals representing key organizations from France and Canada have been invited to engage in a discussion of content issues. Topic areas include new technology-enabled consumer behaviour, changing business models and new opportunities, and the evolution of public policy…
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GATINEAU – Watch the CRTC’s web site today as the Commission plans to open a new public process aimed at creating a code of conduct to govern the contracts consumers sign for various wireless devices and services, Cartt.ca has learned.
Urged on by many inside the industry (led by Telus) and outside of it, the CRTC in April asked for comments on whether the wireless market in Canada warranted its intervention in the development of a national retail wireless services consumer code.
Fuelled by voter backlash, a number of provinces have introduced their own…
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VANCOUVER – Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co is backing Telus’ shareholder consolidation plan as its ongoing dispute with U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital Management drags on ahead of an October 17th meeting where investors will vote on the proposal.
In Telus’ most recent news release, it says Glass Lewis & Co is recommending that its institutional investor clients vote in favour of the telecom’s proposal to exchange its non-voting shares into common shares on a one-for-one basis. This follows a similar recommendation made last week from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), another proxy advisory firm.
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VANCOUVER – Telus has invested an additional $7.3 million to bring 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE ) wireless service to Prince George, Kamloops and the Thompson Okanagan communities of Vernon, Armstrong, and Enderby. It’s also expanding the network across the communities of south central Vancouver Island and Greater Victoria including: Nanaimo, Duncan, Parksville, North Saanich, Metchosin, Colwood, Sydney, Mill Bay, Cobble Hill, Chemainus, Crofton, Ladysmith, Lantzville and Gabriola Island.
Additional B.C. communities, including several in the Thompson Okanagan region, will be getting access to 4G LTE in the coming months says Telus as it brings the…
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WHILE CONCEDING THAT THE various accusations and complaints levelled against it over the past weeks and months show a high level of “competitive and financial tension” evident in the Canadian TV business nowadays, Bell Canada told the CRTC Friday that this tension should not impact the approval of its purchase of Astral Media.
In its final written reply to the CRTC hearing into the purchase, Bell Canada insisted its decision to buy Astral Media and all of its radio stations, TV properties and other assets is in the public interest and that only by owning the…
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