TORONTO – In seven years, newcomers to the wireless game in Canada will have about 8.2 million Canadian wireless subscribers (about 24% of the market), says a new report published Tuesday by Toronto’s Convergence Consulting Group.
And just about all of those subs will be tied to three big new wireless players, Globalive, Shaw Communications and Videotron.
At the end of 2015, those three companies “will each have a 7% share,” says the report.
Approximately 75% of new entrant subscribers will be consumer postpaid. Those customers currently comprise 53% of all Canadian wireless subscribers, but the company estimates that…
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OTTAWA – Wireless incumbents Rogers Communications and Telus have asked Industry Canada to hold a public proceeding into wireless newcomer Globalive’s Canuck bona fides.
Globalive, a Canadian VOIP operator and long-distance re-seller, backed by Egypt-based wireless supplier Orascom, bid over $440 million for wireless spectrum during the summer’s advanced wireless spectrum auction. But both Telus and Rogers say the new wireless company’s ownership structure violates the Canadian legislation which says telecom companies must be majority-owned by Canadians.
Last month, Telus requested Industry Canada hold an open public proceeding to review the eligibility of new holders of wireless spectrum to…
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VANCOUVER – The city of Vancouver has awarded Telus a contract to provide the city’s new IP telephony system and contact centre suite.
Through the $7 million deal, Telus will supply, install and support the Vancouver’s new IP telephony system and contact centre suite, which will in turn support 200 City sites including City Hall, the 311 contact centre, the Vancouver Police Department, the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Department, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and the Vancouver Public Library.
Telus’ contact centre solutions will route calls for the city of Vancouver’s new 311 contact centre, to be…
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TORONTO – A new multiplatform advertising deal between national telco Telus and Discovery channel will weave the telecom firm’s brand into all iterations of the specialty service’s newest series, Cash Cab.
Premiering today and Friday on Discovery HD, Cash Cab is modeled on the worldwide hit format of the same name where passengers/contestants in a specially designed taxi are offered the chance to win money by answering a series of trivia questions on the way to their destination.
Since the original series premiered in the U.K. in 2005, it has become an international hit. In June, Cash Cab (U.S.)…
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I’VE BEEN A FAN of your publication since its inception. You and your team do great work. Your insights and depth and breadth of coverage make Cartt.ca my preferred source of communications industry news.
Congratulations on another successful year and I look forward to enjoying Cartt.ca for a long time to come.
Colin Lachance Director – Marketing (access solutions) TELUS Partner Solutions Ottawa
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OTTAWA – Telus team members and Atlantic Canada community leaders will collaborate to donate $250,000 to local charities each year on Telus’ behalf through the Telus Atlantic Canada Community Board. General Rick Hillier will be the chairman of the board, working with Telus and the board members to develop a charitable giving and community program in Atlantic Canada. His external strategic advisory position is effective September 1.
"We are looking to the Telus Atlantic Canada community board for local insight, knowledge and inspiration," said Darren Entwistle, Telus president and CEO. "It is an honour to welcome General Hillier to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied a request from Bell and Telus to replace the basic international telecommunications services (BITS) licensing regime with a registration system. Instead, the commission has decided to leave the current licensing regime as is, ruling it allows for more effective enforcement than a registration system.
In its year-long review of the BITS licensing regime the commission received submissions from Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Bell Canada, Saskatchewan Telecommunications, Télébec, MTS Allstream Inc., Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Communications.
The BITS licensing regime for telecommunications services providers (TSPs) was put in place a…
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VANCOUVER –Telus Corp reported a 5.5% increase in quarterly profits on the strength of wireless revenue and new mobile phone and Internet subscribers, but chief executive office Darren Entwistle told a conference call with analysts that the company needs to further reduce operating expenses.
"Despite the fact that since 2001 Telus’s ongoing investment in restructuring and workforce reduction totals $1 billion, I am less than satisfied with the revision of our restructuring expense target from $50 million to $30 million," said Entwistle.
Telus earned $267 million in the second quarter ended June 30. That was up 5.5 per cent from $253.1…
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OTTAWA – Industry Minister Jim Prentice says Bell Mobility and Telus have assured him that any customers mistakenly charged for text message spam can have the charges removed from their bills.
Prentice, in a news release, says he met with the CEOs of both companies to express his "serious concerns" with the fact the plans could charge for unsolicited, unwanted spam. He also said the government has “no intention of interfering with the day-to-day business decisions of private companies or with the choices available to consumers” but added that his officials will continue to “monitor market activity.”
"I would encourage consumers dissatisfied…
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IT’S NOT USUAL FOR a reporter to ignore a story on his beat, but it’s happening right now for me.
The issue is text message fees and the decision by Bell Canada and Telus to begin charging customers who aren’t on any sort of texting or data plan 15-cents for each of their incoming text messages.
I’ve been lax in my coverage of this story because I find the stupidity at all levels of this issue is breathtaking. Maddening. Press, consumers, government and the companies themselves; there is more than enough foolishness to go around.
When the story first…
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