VICTORIA – Telus will donate $100 for every new Telus TV customer on Vancouver Island to a home away from home for children requiring medical treatment and their families in Victoria.
The initiative, which will run through June of 2010, is in addition to a $100,000 donation from the 2010 Telus World Skins Game to The Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children for the planning and development of Jeneece Place.
Telus partners with local charitable organizations every year around the popular golf tournament, which next year will be held at Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria from June 21 – 22. Funds are generated…
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OTTAWA – Janet Yale said that it just “seemed like a good time” to make the transition to politics from her 20 plus year career in the cable and telecom industries in Canada.
Yale, now on leave as the executive vice-president of corporate affairs for Telus, announced earlier this week that she is seeking the federal Liberal nomination for her home riding of Ottawa-Centre.
Well know to Cartt.ca readers through her roles at Telus, the now defunct Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA), AT&T Canada and the CRTC, Yale said that her background and experience should prove invaluable as she…
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TORONTO – Bankruptcy courts in Ontario and the US have given the green light for LM Ericsson to purchase Nortel Network’s wireless business unit for US $1.13 billion.
The Swedish telecom-equipment maker outbid two other companies for Nortel’s code division multiple access (CDMA) business and almost all of Nortel’s long term evolution (LTE) access assets. The division, frequently referred to as the crown jewel of Nortel’s assets, counts telecom giants Bell Canada, Telus and Verizon Wireless among its North American customers.
The deal still requires federal regulatory approval before it can close later this year, however, there is growing pressure on…
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OTTAWA – Telus executive Janet Yale has announced that she is seeking the federal Liberal nomination for the riding of Ottawa-Centre, where she has lived for the last 28 years.
Yale, currently the executive vice-president of corporate affairs for Telus, once headed up the now defunct Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA). She has more than 20 years of government and regulatory experience through senior leadership positions at AT&T Canada, the CRTC and the Consumer’s Association of Canada.
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TORONTO – Telus wireless customers will be able to catch some of CTV’s most-watched television programs via Telus’ new mobile video streaming service, the companies announced Thursday.
CTV has signed on as Telus’ first content provider for its new streaming video-on-demand service, meaning customers can use their mobile or smart phone to see shows like MTV’s The Hills, The Comedy Network’s South Park, or top stories and highlights from CTV News, TSN and BNN. Content will be updated on a regular basis, and will be available on demand in easy-to-stream clip format, the press release said.
“Two thirds of Canadian households have…
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OTTAWA and TORONTO – For a guy whose new company is about to jump into the competitive world of mobile communications – but only after it has been scrutinized in a very public review by the CRTC – Globalive Holdings chair and CEO Anthony Lacavera seems pretty relaxed.
Calling the upcoming review of Globalive’s ownership and control “fairly standard procedure”, Lacavera told Cartt.ca that his only moment of concern came when he read that the CRTC could take up to 120 days after the close of the hearing in September to render a decision, which could have pushed back his launch…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will review the structure service rates charged by some of Canada’s biggest telephone companies.
Telus sent an application to the Commission last October asking for it review the rates, terms, and conditions of the support structure service tariffs of the large incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs).
The ILECs would like to increase the rates they can charge, currently $9.60 per year, to rent their poles to other customers such as cable companies. Telus’ application noted that the Ontario Energy Board had approved a hydro pole rate of $22.35 per year.
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TORONTO – Canada’s first mobile payment service is now available for download on the BlackBerry Storm smart phone.
Zoompass, launched last month by mobile commerce company EnStream, offers Canadians a fast and secure way to send and receive money by linking their mobile phone to their personal bank accounts or credit cards.
"The Zoompass mobile application for the BlackBerry Storm smart phone marks the final step in providing the user-friendly Zoompass interface for a broad range of BlackBerry smart phones," said EnStream president Robin Dua, in the press release. "We are excited to work with RIM and look forward to continuing…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has decided to proceed with a review of wireless newcomer Globalive’s ownership to determine whether it is truly Canadian owned and controlled.
The Commission announced Monday that it will initiate a ‘Type 4’ review of Globealive’s ownership and control, given the complexity of Globalive’s corporate structure and financing arrangements, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2009-429 reads.
A Type 4 review consists of an oral, public, multi-party proceeding, and occurs when the CRTC finds that a company’s ownership and governance structure “is of a complex or novel nature, such that in the Commission’s view its determination…
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OTTAWA – Due to the “flawed” overall structure of last year’s advanced wireless spectrum auction, Canada’s wireless companies collectively paid over two billion dollars too much, and that is sorely needed cash which could have been put to far better use than just being handed over to car companies, says Telus.
In time for its reply comments to Industry Canada’s spectrum auction consultation which were due in yesterday, the number two wireless carrier filed a report by NERA Economic Consulting which examined at the structure of the 2008 AWS auction (comparing it to others around the world and past…
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