CALGARY – Telus Corp. is telling its customers not to give out personal information to people who call, and to hang up on them as a phone scam has emerged in British Columbia, Alberta and Alberta.
The scam involves someone calling who claims to work for Telus and offers a deal on a phone service. The scam artist asks for personal information, such as social insurance number, credit card number and Telus account numbers.
Telus warns that those customers who hand over the requested information could suffer identity theft or other fraud.
“Any legitimate Telus agent calling you will have…
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BURLINGTON, ON – White Radio said Thursday it has filled three sales and support positions: Robert Burke as business development manager of the Atlantic Region, Pat George as product manager, wireless and John Mitchell as application engineer.
Burke has 13 years experience in technical sales and distribution, including at Telus and EMJ Data Systems. George has a lot of technical experience, and has previously supported companies such as Execulink and Total Network Services. Mitchell worked as in telecom technical customer service for White Radio before his promotion.
“Sales and support is the foundation of our value proposition,” stated Jack…
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GATINEAU – Allarco Entertainment Inc.’s pay-per-view Super Channel will finally be launching on Shaw Communications’ cable systems and on its direct-to-home satellite distributor Star Choice in late April and early May respectively, according to the broadcaster.
The news was revealed following Allarco’s appearance Wednesday at the CRTC’s three-week-long hearing into pay and specialty services and broadcast distribution undertakings – at which executives complained it was proving impossible to get carriage, even though Super Channel had been granted must-carry status by the regulator.
“It’s easy to get a licence, but very difficult to execute it,” said Allarco chair Chuck Allard….
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Saturday it will be giving Canada’s snowboarding team members a total of $50,000 for reaching the podium at World Cup events or other key events during the 2007-2008 snowboard season.
The money will be divided among Maelle Ricker (North Vancouver), Jasey-Jay Anderson (Mont Tremblant, QC), Drew Neilson ( North Vancouver), Rob Fagan, (Cranbrook, B.C.), Tom Velisek (Squamish, B.C.), Dominique Maltais (Montreal, QC), Derek Wintermans (Vancouver, B.C.), Mike Robertson (Canmore, AB), Ryan Hickey (North Bay, ON), Matt Morison (Burketon, ON), Brad Martin (Ancaster, ON), Jeff Batchelor (Oakville, ON), Crispin Lipscomb (Whistler, B.C.), Sarah Conrad (Halifax, NS),…
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VANCOUVER – TELUS announced on Thursday a proposed offering in Canada of $500 million worth of seven-year senior unsecured Notes.
The Notes will be sold through a syndicate of agents led by Scotia Capital Inc. and that includes RBC Capital Markets Inc., BMO Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc. and HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc.
The Notes will mature on April 15, 2015. The interest rate and other terms will be determined through negotiation with the agents.
Telus said the money raised through the offering will be used “for general corporate purposes, including repaying amounts under the…
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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE highest profile issue CRTC commissioners will tackle beginning next week’s policy hearings on broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services is fee-for-carriage. That is, paying a new subscription fee for over-the-air broadcast stations.
As the rules now stand the regulatory bargain is such that cable and satellite and telco TV must carry conventional local TV stations low in their channel lineups and must substitute Canadian signals over top of American ones when the programming is the same. We’ve come to know that part as simultaneous substitution. In return, distributors have not ever had to pay the…
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TORONTO – Telus Corp. has launched a new low-cost, no-frills mobile service, called Koodo Mobile, that offers talk and text options.
Koodo Mobile’s cheapest plan costs $15 a month for 50 minutes at any time of the day, and 50 text messages. Voicemail, call display, and an unlimited text messaging cost $5 a month or $10 a month for all three.
A media release refers to the service as “fat-free mobility” because it doesn’t feature more bandwidth intensive features such as television, video calling and satellite radio. There is no activation fee and no fixed-term contract. Billing is per…
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WE HAVE SOME questions for everyone. Feel free to answer, if you like, at editorial@cartt.ca. Answers will remain confidential – unless you’d like us to make them public… ************ 1. Quick, what’s a two-syllable word, ending in “o” that is a low-cost Canadian wireless brand? With the launch of a new name, Koodo, on the Telus network, we now have three answers to that question – counting Bell’s Solo and Rogers’ Fido. Can someone in marketing can explain to me the reasons why cheap Canadian wireless brand names apparently must end in o? Why is that such a…
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KELOWNA – The Canadian CommTech Trade Show is urging delegates to book soon to take advantage of registration savings. Delegates registering by March 14th can save $10 a day for the show and seminars in Kelowna on May 14-15th.
The show has increased its exhibitor forum by over 30% and will offer 25% more technical training sessions. The early bird rate of $80 per day includes a casual lunch, beverage breaks trade show and 26 training sessions to choose from.
Session topics range from GPON trial updates from Telus and Sasktel to outside plant line conditioning and deep fibre…
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VANCOUVER – With the completion of a final wireless installation on Mount Byang,
near Port Alice on northern Vancouver Island, most Telus cellphone customers in B.C.
and Alberta now have access to wireless high speed Internet service.
As a result of a three-year, $100 million investment program, Telus has installed
hardware at more than 1,100 cell sites in B.C. and Alberta, providing wireless service to
about 95 per cent of residents.
The company said they’ll now have access to the Internet at speeds approaching home
Internet service.
“Western Canadians can now enjoy access to wireless broadband Internet pretty much…
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