TORONTO – Digitization of Canada’s economy and society, coupled with the right policies, has the potential to support the country’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and a 40% reduction by 2030, according to a new report from researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
The Telus-sponsored report suggests “digitization in Canadian businesses and homes could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by approximately 15 to 20 percent” and “incorporating ICT solutions could save 10 times the carbon emissions that they generate in deploying them,” citing research published by the World Economic Forum, Accenture, the Global…
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VICTORIA – Telus announced Thursday the launch of a second mobile health clinic in Victoria.
The mobile health clinic, in partnership with the Victoria Cool Aid Society, is supposed to address the “increasing need for primary health care and provide support for people experiencing homelessness in the capital region,” a press release said.
Those services include routine testing, contraception, women’s health services, STI treatment, harm reduction services, and mental health care and counseling, the release said.
The existing mobile clinic, which serves 25 locations on a bi-weekly rotational basis, has “enabled more than 14,000 patient encounters from citizens throughout the greater Victoria…
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Northwestel filed its own lawsuit last month alleging Iristel has not paid for telecom services
By Ahmad Hathout
WHITEHORSE – Iristel has taken Northwestel to the Supreme Court of Yukon over an alleged failure by the Bell subsidiary to provide redundant network connection points in Whitehorse and Yellowknife that it said are required by an agreement the two signed in 2012.
The two companies are bound by a master agreement signed in June 2012 that stipulates that they will share their network infrastructure. In that agreement, Iristel alleges Northwestel agreed to have signaling points of interconnection at addresses in Inuvik, Whitehorse and…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Wednesday that it will become the official telecommunications, digital health and home security partner for Canada Soccer.
The multi-year partnership kicks off by helping “ensure more women and girls enjoy the benefits of soccer” with the telecom becoming the title partner of the Telus She Can Coach program, the press release said. The program recruits, develops and trains female soccer coaches.
The release notes that “less than on per cent of women are actively working as professional coaches and decision-making members on national and provincial boards.”
“The inaugural phase of the TELUS She CAN Coach program will launch…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Rogers told the CRTC that it must act expeditiously on its request to access Bell and Telus poles because the new policy direction from Cabinet requires it.
Rogers said as much in a reply submission last week to Bell and Telus, who told the CRTC to deny Rogers’s request last Wednesday asking for interim access to attach wireless equipment on their poles.
Telus said in its submission that the expedited request is “unsubstantiated” and that Rogers allegedly failed to “demonstrate any need for the Commission to exercise its discretion to implement an expedited process…
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Bell alleges it has approached Rogers about terms and didn’t hear back
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Rogers is accusing Bell and Telus of delaying its requests to attach wireless equipment on their poles and is asking the CRTC to make an interim order granting those requests on an expedited basis.
Rogers said in a Part 1 application filed earlier this month and published Wednesday that Telus had invited it to apply for attachment permits last year, but “abruptly changed its position” on the basis that the CRTC said it would be reviewing the wireless attachment framework in a decision on wireline…
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MONTREAL – Telus and the Montreal Science Centre announced Monday that they are partnering to encourage people to give their old mobile devices for repair, recycling and refurbishing.
Telus said it has recycled or upcycled over 3.5 million devices since 2005, and uses its subsidiary Mobile Klinik to do the job. Quebec residents can drop off their old devices at any eligible Telus store.
Refurbished devices are then available for purchase from Telus backed by a one-year warranty. If the devices cannot be refurbished, they are then recycled.
“Research suggests that buying a refurbished device helps protect the environment by…
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VULCAN, AB – The federal government and Alberta jointly announced a $96-million investment to provide high-speed internet to 46 rural and remote communities across the province.
The investment will toward 14 projects to connect more than 10,000 households, 2,300 of which are indigenous.
The recipients of the money are Telus, Tough Country Communications, Stoney Nakoda Telecom, ATG Arrow Technology, Blood Tribe – Kainai Nation – Treaty 7, Missing Link Internet, Wi-fibre, and the Town of Rainbow Lake.
The federal portion comes from the Universal Broadband Fund, which partnered with Alberta to deliver $780 million to connect the entire province.
The communities to be…
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OTTAWA – Bell filed Wednesday a letter of support for the Supreme Court of Canada to review a Federal Court of Appeal decision affirming that the CRTC does not have jurisdiction over wireless attachments on municipal structures.
The one-page letter supporting Telus’s application includes a copy to Rogers, Cogeco, Quebecor, Xplornet, Ice Wireless, the province of British Columbia and opponents of the argument, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Electricity Canada.
Telus filed the appeal to the high court last month, which has yet to decide if it will hear it. The Vancouver-based telecom argued that the appeal…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The spate of acquisitions by incumbents of wholesale internet service providers in recent months is not because of a difficult market or bad wholesale access rates, Bell argued in its most recent submission to the CRTC’s wholesale internet framework proceeding, which is messaging that runs counter to what competitors have been saying.
“These acquisitions were completed for a variety of reasons, including succession planning, and the sales were made at strong valuations, not because the Resellers went bankrupt, were driven out of the market or…because of ‘the broken wholesale access model,’” Bell said, in reference to…
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