Telus announced Tuesday it has obtained the required permits — following a consultation process with Indigenous communities — to deploy a buried submarine cable between Sept-Îles and the Gaspé Peninsula, a major project originally announced in 2020.
Telus said in a press release it will start deploying the submarine fibre cable this fall, with commissioning of the cable expected in the weeks following its deployment. The new link is designed to ensure redundancy and network security along Quebec’s North Shore between Baie-Comeau and Lourdes-de-Blanc Sablon, Telus said.
“This new, state-of-the-art…
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The Telus Friendly Future Foundation and CIBC Foundation announced Wednesday a $2-million partnership to launch the multi-year Telus Momentum Student Bursary, powered by CIBC Foundation, that will support up to 500 young changemakers from the Black community.
Each foundation is contributing $1 million to the program, which aims to “unlock access to education and career pathways for young Black leaders, whose talents and community leadership are critical for helping solve pressing social issues,” a Telus press release reads.
Bursaries will be awarded to students who are facing financial barriers and…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Telus is asking the CRTC to ensure that all Canadian distributors get a fair shot at negotiating carriage of content held by Rogers and Bell.
“It ensures that Canadians nationwide will have competitively priced access to readily discoverable Canadian content that should be accessible to Canadians across the country at fair prices because it precludes vertically integrated companies like Rogers and Bell from keeping important content to themselves,” Daniel Stern, Telus’s associate general counsel, said Thursday.
The overarching Telus position is that service providers must be able to bundle television and internet to compete against these VIs. The…
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By Ahmad Hathout
In an extraordinary legal filing, Bell is accusing Telus of training and using door-to-door salespeople to pitch an unlicensed IPTV application to get customers to switch to Telus internet services.
The activity is allegedly taking place in areas where Telus wholesales internet service from Bell, according to a statement of claim in Ontario Superior Court, filed Thursday.
The representatives “promote, facilitate, authorize, and assist in the installation of an illegal, unlicensed IPTV application … that reproduces and retransmits Canadian and international programming, including works and signals in which Bell and its affiliated programmers hold copyright,” the statement alleges.
The representatives…
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Telus alleges Bell complaint a delay tactic
By Ahmad Hathout
Bell is alleging that Telus is unduly disadvantaging its newly branded television networks after the broadcaster signed a deal in March to carry Rogers’s Warner Bros. Discovery programming.
In the partially redacted complaint, dated late April but only made public by the CRTC last week, Bell says its USA Network, Oxygen True Crime, CTV Nature, CTV Speed, and CTV Wild services are being treated unfairly because the broadcaster is allegedly looking to remove the services from some packages containing Rogers’s Discovery content.
“We are not trying to maintain a de facto access right…
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Telus announced last week it has submitted a non-binding indication of interest (IOI) to the board of directors of Telus Digital (formerly known as Telus International) to acquire all of the outstanding subordinate voting shares and multiple voting shares of Telus Digital not already owned by Telus for a proposed price per share of US$3.40.
To be paid in cash, Telus common shares or a combination of both, the proposed price represents a premium of approximately 15 per cent to Telus Digital’s closing share price on the New York Stock…
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The CRTC has asked Telus via a June 5 letter to provide a public summary of a 911 service outage Telus experienced from March 22-24 this year that impacted wireless 911 calls trying to connect to the public safety answering point (PSAP) in Brandon, Manitoba.
The commission initially requested information regarding the outage from Telus in an April 11 letter asking for weekly progress reports on the Vancouver-based telecom’s investigation of the cause of the outage, steps taken to resolve the outage, the impact of the outage, and plans put in place…
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Telus announced Friday that it successfully tested 5G slicing technology that allowed it to provide a dedicated traffic lane for Edmonton police during the Oilers’ playoff run.
The Vancouver-based telecom said the slicing demonstration showed “flawless performance of critical surveillance systems even during periods of extreme network congestion,” a press release said.
“During periods of high congestion, the 5G priority slice maintained 100 per cent service availability, ensuring uninterrupted, and high-quality video streams from strategically placed CCTV cameras across downtown Edmonton,” it added.
“While standard networks faced potential slowdowns during peak traffic, these priority-connected cameras consistently delivered real-time visual coverage, providing Edmonton Police with the…
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Telus announced Tuesday applications are open for its #StandWithOwners contest, returning for its sixth consecutive year, which will provide more than $1 million in prizing and rewards to support Canadian small businesses.
Until Sept. 3, small business owners can apply at telus.com/StandWithOwners for a chance to win one of five grand prize packages valued at more than $200,000 each. These prize packages include $75,000 in direct funding, $80,000 in advertising and business exposure, $35,000 in Telus technology along with a Samsung technology package, and $10,000 in Telus Health wellbeing support. In addition,…
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The parties are currently engaged in a carriage dispute
By Ahmad Hathout
Corus is suing Telus in the Ontario Superior Court for allegedly breaking its distribution agreement by withholding and refusing to repay roughly $2.5 million in service fees.
Corus filed the claim this week revealing the parties are currently engaged in a dispute over the terms for carrying Corus’s services, which Telus continues to distribute per a regulatory standstill.
Crucially, the existing agreement, which continues to govern the parties during the dispute, includes a section that stipulates that Telus “shall not deduct or set-off any amounts for any reason from Service Fees…
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