VANCOUVER – The Canadian Football League has teamed up with Telus to create a 100th anniversary replica Grey Cup, made from pennies, called The Fan Cup. Cast from the copper of Canadian pennies, The Fan Cup will be engraved with the names of thousands of CFL fans from across Canada and live inside The Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a symbol of appreciation for a century of loyal fan support.
Fans will create The Fan Cup trophy during The Grey Cup 100 Tour by using a custom-built Telus Penny Press to make their own 100th Grey Cup Game collectable…
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TORONTO – Telus has announced a five-year agreement with Free The Children as national co-title sponsor of We Day, a series of events held across Canada to inspire youth to create change in their communities and around the world. In addition to its sponsorship, Telus is launching a Phones for Good campaign on September 7, giving $25 from the sale of every Samsung Galaxy SIII or Samsung Ace Q to Free the Children.
Telus is also giving young Canadians the opportunity to attend the We Day event in their city through a special Earn Your Way to We Day initiative….
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TORONTO- Building on successful launches in the U.S. and U.K., Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has announced its Sony Movie Channel and AXN Movies will launch in Canada today on Hollywood Suite as part of Hollywood Suite's four HD movie channels.
Sony Movie Channel is SPT's movie network features award-winning films, cult favorites, family comedies and dramas, while all-movie network AXN showcases action and epic adventure films.
With access to Sony Pictures' library of feature films, Sony Movie Channel offers a variety of programming selected from more than 3,500 Sony Pictures movies.
Already the exclusive home of WarnerFilms and MGM Channel in Canada,…
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VANCOUVER and NEW YORK – Telus is vowing to launch legal proceedings to quash a plan by U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital to hold its own shareholder meeting hours before the shareholder meeting that Telus has scheduled.
Earlier this month, Telus called a court-approved shareholder meeting for October 17, where all of its shareholders, including Mason, will vote on its share exchange proposal. On Friday, Mason announced it had called another meeting for earlier that same day in order to establish a minimum premium to Telus’ voting shares to be paid to shareholders in any transaction to have one…
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WE DRILL DOWN into the analytics of our content quite a lot at Cartt.ca, studying what resonates with our valued readers and what doesn’t. We learn a lot and try adjust our coverage accordingly. So, to give you a peek at what the folks in the cable, radio, television and telecom business have been paying the most attention to for the past year, we publish the top 25 stories of the past 12 months on the day after Labour Day.
As those in the TV business will tell you, September is really the beginning of the year – and September…
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CALGARY – Intriga Mobility has finalized a new partnership with Rogers dealer Imagine Wireless that will allow it to offer Rogers products to its customers across Canada.
With offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Intriga Mobility is a corporate mobility provider that boasts 100 customers and 20,000 end users. It also has partnerships with authorized SaskTel, Telus and Bell dealers.
"This partnership ultimately allows us to improve hardware delivery to end users”, said president Jeff Hayter, in the announcement. “We are excited to be partnered with this impressive organization. Together we will be able to improve customer service and build a…
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THE BACK-AND-FORTH paper war between Wind and Telus will not abate until the CRTC says one way or another whether it will call a hearing into the matter.
On one side we have Wind (also known as Globalive Wireless), which spent two years fighting off allegations from Telus, Public Mobile and others that its level of Canadian ownership did not satisfy Canadian regulations. That battle went all the way to the Supreme Court. On the other side we have Telus, which has run into some unexpected rough waters trying to convert its two share structure into…
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TORONTO – Telus Community Ambassadors in the Greater Toronto Area are helping ease some of the back-to-school financial strain for families throughout the region by donating free backpacks filled with school supplies to 740 students.
The initiative is part of the company’s ‘Kits for Kids’ program, an annual tradition through which thousands of backpacks are distributed to young students across Canada. Since 2006 nearly 60,000 ‘Kits for Kids’ backpacks have been given to kids in need.
"Programs such as Telus’ Kits for Kids are incredibly important for families in need”, said Crystal Brummell, president of the Central Toronto Community Ambassadors, in…
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TORONTO – There is a growing awareness among Canadians that they can use their smartphones to pay for products and services at the point of purchase, says a new report from Solutions Research Group.
In fact, among those who are already reaching for their phones to do their banking – current users of mobile banking apps, who represent 36% of all Canadian smartphone users, accounting for nearly 4 million people – awareness has reached critical mass.
Of those users, 56% of them are aware of an upcoming service that would allow them to swipe their phone to pay for goods and…
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DESPITE THE OPPOSITION to its planned purchase of Astral Media, Bell Canada remains steadfast that this deal is good for Canada and Quebec – and will foster innovation and competition to the benefit of Canadian media consumers.
In its reply comments submitted to the CRTC last week (the final paper stage before the public hearing in Montreal starting September 10th, Bell takes a hard line especially against those standing utterly opposed to its $3.4 billion purchase of the company which owns such brands as The Movie Network, Super Écran, HBO Canada, Family Channel, Virgin Radio, NRJ Radio, Rouge FM and…
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