TORONTO – Daily deals site Wagjag.com said today it has been selected by Telus to provide a new loyalty program to Telus wireless customers.
Throughout the duration of the program, eligible Telus wireless customers will receive a complimentary $10 WagJag.com credit at the beginning of each month. The credit can be used towards any WagJag purchase before month's end. "Telus is always looking to bring more value and convenience to our customers by teaming up with best in class brands our customers already know and like," said Judy Mellett, director of products and services at Telus. "The $10 WagJag credit…
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TORONTO – Wind Mobile made a final appeal to Industry Canada and the federal government to set aside a portion of the 700 MHz spectrum for exclusive bidding by new wireless entrants. The rules for the pending auction are expected to be announced shortly.
In a statement on Friday, CEO Anthony Lacavera said that the idea of spectrum caps, which was proposed by Telus, will not only shut investors out of the pending spectrum auction, buts it puts the ‘Big Three’ incumbents interests ahead of consumer interests.
“If Minister Paradis makes a decision to announce ‘caps’ over ‘set aside’…
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GATINEAU – Independent distributors Cogeco Cable, Telus, EastLink, MTS and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance still hate the terms of carriage offered to them by Bell Media for its specialty channels and so the parties will soon face mandatory mediation in front of a CRTC commissioner as the carriers continue to allege undue preference against Bell.
The carriers, together they are calling themselves the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG), all object to the carriage agreement put before them by Bell Media for all of the company’s specialty channels, as we have previously reported. Bell Media insists…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications says claims by Bell Canada and Telus that the two wireless competitors and collaborators aren’t sharing spectrum are false. In fact, Telus is using Bell’s spectrum in Toronto for Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, according to Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory at Rogers.
Earlier this month, Telus began advertising a 75 Mbps LTE service in Toronto. According to Engelhart, it would be impossible for Telus to provide an LTE service with those kinds of speeds in the 10 MHz of bandwidth it holds in Toronto. It would need 20 MHz to do it. Besides, he…
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OTTAWA– The winning schools from across Canada who competed in a national recycling challenge for mobile phones and accessories where announced today. The 2011 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge, held in partnership with Waste Reduction Week in Canada, saw Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, wireless PDAs, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries.
For 30 days beginning October 17, students from 134 schools across Canada participated in the second annual challenge and collected more than 6,000 wireless devices and close to 600 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries….
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TELUS INSISTS THAT THE joint Long Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure build the company has signed with Bell Canada is simply that: an agreement to share the costs of building out a national LTE network. Nothing more.
There will not be any spectrum sharing, says Michael Hennessy, senior vice-president of regulatory and government affairs at Telus in an interview with Cartt.ca. He explains that the premise of deploying the LTE network in conjunction with Bell is to reduce their respective capital costs of building a national network. “We each control our own spectrum and we’re using our own spectrum to support…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC said today that it will continue to license satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs) because of a lack of competition in that market, but will not incorporate the transport of pay and specialty services into SRDU licensing.
In its decision the Commission maintained that its dispute resolution process “remains the best way to address concerns regarding uplink fees that the Bell direct-to-home undertaking charges Canadian pay and specialty services for the transport of their signals to cable headends in cases where they do not need to use Bell’s SRDU facilities.” Canada’s only two SRDU operators, Shaw Satellite…
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VANCOUVER – Telus had a busy Friday.
On the financial front, the company released strong fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results across both its wireless and wireline networks. On the network technology side, the company turned on its LTE network in 14 markets from coast-to-coast.
Given the new, much-faster data capabilities of LTE (theoretically up to 75 Mbps download, but more practically somewhere in the 12-25 range), why isn’t Telus charging premium prices for the new devices and perhaps for different speeds of service, Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai Ghose asked Telus executives during…
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VANCOUVER – Driven by wireless and wireline data growth, fourth quarter 2011 revenue at Telus hit $2.7 billion, an increase of more than 5% over the same three months of 2010, the company reported today.
The increase was generated by 6.5% growth in wireless revenue and 4% growth in wireline revenue, both driven by strong data growth, the company reported. Telus added 148,000 postpaid wireless customers in the fourth quarter as smartphone adoption continued to accelerate, causing wireless data revenue to increase by 43%. “This increase more than offset declining wireless voice revenues, resulting in wireless…
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GATINEAU – Canadian consumers need their wireless companies to be much more transparent when it comes to contract terms and other matters, so the industry should have national standards when it comes to the provision of wireless services, Telus told the CRTC on Wednesday in calling for a public hearing on transparency in wireless.
The call for that new process came in a letter to the Commission from the company’s senior vice-president of government and regulatory affairs, Michael Hennessy, where he denied an accusation leveled by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that Telus routinely charges wireless customers for 30 additional…
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