VANCOUVER – Telus announced today it will support the B.C. High School Boys’ Basketball Association with a four-year, $260,000 title sponsorship of its annual AAA provincial tournament, starting with this year’s Telus BC Boys’ AAA Basketball Championships March 7 – 11 at the PNE Agrodome.
The sponsorship also includes the creation of $7,500 in annual scholarships the association will distribute to B.C. basketball athletes each year.
"Telus is thrilled to support this tournament, and we wish the athletes competing from across B.C. the best of luck," said Steve Podborski, Telus assistant vice-president of sport marketing. "Supporting this outstanding annual…
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VANCOUVER – Community initiatives around the Lower Mainland will receive a $500,000 boost from Telus every year thanks to the new Telus Vancouver Community Board.
Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle today announced the launch of the board as part of a new national philanthropic program. Charitable organizations are invited to apply for up to $20,000 in one-time funding for projects in the areas of health and wellness, education and sport, and arts and culture, with a focus on youth and the innovative use of technology.
"We are looking to members of the Telus Vancouver Community Board for the…
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IT WAS A LUCKY DAY to be in Vancouver, what with the announcement by Shaw that it’s launching VOIP here and that Telus is spending $15 million on a shiny new headend.
So, we took the opportunity to have a short visit with Fred Di Blasio, vice-president consumer product marketing (he’s in charge of the Telus TV rollout, among other things) to get a bit more than what was in the press release on Wednesday.
What follows is a conversation between Di Blasio and www.cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien at the Telus Learning Centre in Burnaby, B.C….
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VANCOUVER – After alluding to it in an earlier story on www.cartt.ca, Telus today announced a long-term video on demand agreement with Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox.
Telus TV will now offer the studio’s movies such as Fantastic 4, Kingdom of Heaven, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Robots, and other classic Hollywood movies, will be offered on a video on demand basis.
www.telus.com
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VANCOUVER – After alluding to it in an earlier story on www.cartt.ca, Telus today announced a long-term video on demand agreement with Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox.
Telus TV will now offer the studio’s movies such as Fantastic 4, Kingdom of Heaven, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Robots, and other classic Hollywood movies, will be offered on a video on demand basis.
www.telus.com
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VANCOUVER – After alluding to it in an earlier story on www.cartt.ca, Telus today announced a long-term video on demand agreement with Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox.
Telus TV will now offer the studio’s movies such as Fantastic 4, Kingdom of Heaven, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Robots, and other classic Hollywood movies, will be offered on a video on demand basis.
www.telus.com
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VANCOUVER – Not wanting to let Shaw have the news all to itself this week, Telus announced today that it will build a brand new $15 million digital headend north of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley.
The headend, which will be operational by this summer, will deliver Telus TV to subscribers in B.C. and Alberta.
It will initially provide Telus TV customers with more than 200 video and audio channels once it is fully operational – growing to well over 300 channels within a year. In addition to eight satellite dishes, with room for three more, Telus is installing Internet…
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TORONTO – Registrations for the 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit are tracking well ahead of last year’s sell-out crowd.
Delegates will be able to join 500 of their colleagues to listen to executive presentations from around the world from those who have the greatest influence on the direction of Canadian telecom.
For three full days, June 12 to 14, to the Canadian Telecom Summit will deliver thought-provoking insight from the prime movers of the industry such as Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Vonage chairman Jeffrey Citron, IBM Canada president Dan Fortin, Allstream president John MacDonald, Ericsson CEO Mark Henderson, Mitel chairman…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – The Canadian CommTech Trade Show & Training Seminars supplier tables are now 40% sold out.
This brand new, much-anticipated two-day trade show and seminar series will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 17 & 18. The full hotel and its facilities have been reserved due to the anticipation of this trade show being a sell-out.
It is anticipated that this greatly expanded trade show should attract approximately 40 to 50 technology, communications and outside plant suppliers from Canada and the U.S. Cable companies, telecommunications providers, sub-contractors and telcos will be…
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CHUM WILL BE SOLD. Shaw, too. Telus will buy Bell. Foreign ownership rules will be abolished. CRTC regs, too.
Now those are some seriously fearless predictions for the new year. They’re all poppycock, too. Made ’em up (although a couple could happen).
The slowdown time during the 14 days or so around Christmas and New Years (and Hanukkah, too), coupled with the fact that a new year is beginning, spawns all sorts of lists and predictions and reviews in the media. I didn’t want to be left out, but I didn’t want to try to add to the M&A…
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