EDMONTON – As wildfire continues to ravage Slave Lake, Telus announced plans to help the displaced residents and emergency services.
The telco said Tuesday that it is donating $25,000 to the Red Cross in support of relief efforts in the area, and has launched a text-to-donate initiative whereby customers can text "REDCROSS" to 30333 to donate $5 to The Canadian Red Cross Society’s efforts. Telus is also offering free wireless long distance calling to all residents in the community for at least the next week, plus is shipping 1,500 kits packed with toiletries to the Red Cross for distribution at evacuation…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has ordered the country’s telcos to pay over $215,000 to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in order to cover its costs during the obligation to serve hearing last fall.
The consumer group asked the Commission that it be reimbursed for legal fees, consultant fees, expert witness fees, disbursement fees and tax while representing the organizations Canada Without Poverty, Option consommateurs, and Rural Dignity of Canada, an amount that it said totaled $216,795.66.
On Monday, the CRTC agreed that PIAC should be paid $215,276.46, and that the amount should be divided up among all telecommunications service providers…
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TORONTO – The future of TV in the digital age will be debated by senior representatives from Telus, Rogers, Corus, the Canadian Media Production Association, Google TV and Boxee at this year’s Banff World Media Festival.
Moderated by Michael Hennessey, chair of the Festival’s Foundation in addition to SVP regulatory and government affairs at Telus, the panel will discuss what role traditional television infrastructure and new digital technologies will play in the living room of the future, as well as what is at stake for the Canadian and international media ecosystem in these changes.
Panel participants will include David Purdy, vice-president…
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CALGARY – According to almost 1,000 Calgarians who took the “Mobilicity Network Challenge” over the last two weeks, administered by the company, most found the new network as good as or better than what they hear on the networks of the likes of Telus, Rogers or Bell.
“In fact, 41% of participants in the western city could not tell a difference between the Mobilicity network and a Big Three carrier network. And, of those who said they could tell a difference, 78% preferred the call made on the Mobilicity device,” says a Mobilicity press release.
"The fact that over 40% of…
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TORONTO – Telus has signed a new five-year agreement, an extension of its original 2006 contract, with the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Government Services to provide, manage and supply the provincial government’s portfolio of telecommunications, voice and data services, including IT security, for the entire network of the Government of Ontario.
"Telus was the first to bring a national internet-protocol network to Canada, and the Ontario government has leveraged this state-of-the-art technology to provide highly secure, cost-effective, leading edge network services across the province,” said Joe Natale, Telus’ chief commercial officer, in the press release.
The company will continue to…
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ONE THING BECAME CLEAR pretty quick when I sat down to with Phil Lind a not long ago. He wanted to talk about fee-for-carriage.
The vice-chairman and executive vice-president, regulatory, at Rogers Communications gets a little animated and agitated when it comes to fee-for-carriage(or the renamed value-for-signal). Over four years ago, when we said (wrongly at the time) that it seemed inevitable the CRTC would grant OTA broadcasters the right to charge a fee for their signal, he called me up out of the blue to tell me in no uncertain terms how wrong I was.
For that particular proceeding,…
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VANCOUVER – First quarter profits at Telus climbed by 20% which the company attributed to growth in wireless and wireline revenues, both driven by strong data revenue growth.
Consolidated revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 was $2.5 billion, an increase of 6.5% from $2.3 billion year-over-year, the telco announced Thursday. Net income for the quarter was $328 million, up 20% from $273 million in the same period in 2010.
Telus ended the quarter with just over 7 million wireless customers, including 52,000 new postpaid wireless subscribers, as smart phone loading continued to accelerate. Prepaid subscribers declined 20,000.
The company added 44,000…
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TORONTO – The speaker list at the Canadian Telecom Summit gets better and better.
Bell Canada CEO George Cope will give the lunchtime keynote address on Thursday, June 2nd, the organizers, Mark Goldberg and Michael Sone, announced today.
Cope joins the likes of CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein, Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie, Rogers Communications’ Rob Bruce, Telus’ CFO Robert McFarlane, Nokia Siemens’ CTO Hossein Moiin, Microsoft Canada president Eric Gales and a host of others (including Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, who will moderate the Regulatory Blockbuster Panel on Wednesday, June 1).
To learn more or to register, click…
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THE INCENTIVES FOR THE great, big vertically integrated Canadian cabletelbroadcellcasters to act unfairly towards everybody else has become too great to ignore and new protections against potential perils are needed, say many companies in their submissions to the CRTC ahead of June’s hearing into vertical integration.
(Editor’s note: This preview originally ran on April 29th. We’re re-running it here as a preview of the hearing, which gets under way Monday in Ottawa with Rogers first up. As usual, Cartt.ca will be there. But if you can’t be there, it will be streamed live on cpac.ca – and available for…
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VANCOUVER – Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle is the 2011 recipient of the Fraser Institute’s T. Patrick Boyle Founder’s Award in British Columbia.
The Fraser Institute is an independent Canadian public policy research and educational organization with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal and ties to a global network of 80 think-tanks. It gives the award to recognize outstanding achievements in entrepreneurship, the promotion of free markets, and philanthropic support for private-sector, non-profit enterprises.
"Darren is very deserving of this honour for his remarkable achievements at Telus”, said Fraser Institute president, Brett Skinner, in Thursday’s announcement. “He has built…
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