VANCOUVER – In lieu of Telus’ Employee Charitable Giving Campaign (ECGC) for 2005, Telus Communications has decided to provide 100% of this year’s funding, $2 million.
Funding is normally provided through the annual campaign, which encourages employees and retirees to make charitable contributions that are matched by Telus dollar for dollar. For 2005, the company will provide all of the funding.
Last year, as part of the 2004 ECGC, Telus employees and retirees donated $1 million, which was matched by the company for a total of $2 million that was disbursed to charities in communities across Canada.
However, because of…
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TORONTO – CanWest Interactive has acquired certain assets of CanadianRetail.com, the largest online recruiting site for the retail sector in Canada, from Bjork Enterprises Limited.
The purchase included the domain name of CanadianRetail.com, customer contracts and intellectual property contained on the web site. Tre price of the transaction was not disclosed.
The acquisition is part of the strategy of CanWest Interactive’s working.com to provide both employers and job seekers with relevant local search results and depth in specific employment verticals. Similar deals this year included a partnership with Nurses4Ontario as well as the New Car Dealers Association of British Columbia….
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SCARBOROUGH – Telus Mobility clients in five major urban centres across Canada can now access the Internet, e-mail servers and other data networks at speeds at least six times faster than previous mobile data services.
Telus’ wireless high speed offers customers in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, “broadband data access they’ve become accustomed to on their desktops, but now they can take that speed on the road. With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 megabytes per second, Telus Mobility’s Wireless High Speed network offers clients the speed…
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TORONTO – While Telus was announcing the roll-out of its newer, faster wireless EVDO network in five major Canadian cities, Bell Canada today announced the availability of its new EVDO network in Western Canada, Telus’ back yard.
The technology is the third generation (3G) of wireless networks and delivers data at unprecedented download rates of up to 2.4Mbps.
Bell Mobility users in Vancouver, British Columbia and both Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta (same cities Telus has its EVDO launched) “will now immediately enjoy the benefits of a 3G network, related products and services,” says the press release.
Bell’s EV-DO network…
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. – MobiTV, Inc. Monday announced the strategic hire of longtime music industry executive Nancy Levin as its executive producer of Music Television.
MobiTV is the enabling technology behind the mobile video service currently in the market from Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility and Rogers Wireless.
“Levin’s talents will be instrumental in building momentum in music content and music industry related media available through MobiTV’s global service,” says the MobiTV release.
Levin brings over 15 years of experience in senior management roles at several major record labels — including Warner Bros., Priority/EMI and MCI/Universal/Vivendi. Levin was most recently president…
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VANCOUVER – With its labour woes (hopefully) finally behind the company, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle said Thursday the company is moving quickly on two new technologies: its new wireless EVDO network, and its digital television solution, Telus TV.
During a quarterly conference call with financial analysts, Entwistle said beginning next week, Telus will launch its EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) high speed wireless network in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal. The new net will allow wireless data speeds of more than 700 Kbps, about six times faster than its current offering.
And launching this month, is Telus TV, its…
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TORONTO – We’ve seen e-commerce, t-commerce and plain old commerce, but thanks to an intiative by the country’s big three wireless operators, we’re about to see m-commerce.
Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, today announced the launch of Wireless Payment Services. The jointly-owned venture “will act as a mobile commerce, or m-commerce, gateway, facilitating secure wireless payment transactions while standardizing the user experience across Canadian wireless providers, devices and payment mechanisms,” says today’s press release.
"With anytime, anywhere payments representing the next frontier of wireless service, Wireless Payment Services’ mandate is to develop standardized, secure and easy-to-use mobile…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union have reached a memorandum of settlement, it was announced Sunday evening.
The memorandum contains the terms of a negotiated five-year collective agreement that will now be submitted to TWU members for ratification.
The TWU executive council and bargaining committee are recommending its members accept the agreement which, if ratified, is expected to be effective from November 17, 2005 to November 16, 2010.
TWU members are to vote by a mail-in balloting process. Ballots are expected to be mailed out by priority post beginning Monday, November 7 and returned by Tuesday, November…
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WINNIPEG – The media supply chain is irrevocably more complicated and potentially scary for Canadian broadcasters, according to two sessions on personal media on Monday at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention.
The morning session was called “Personal Media Models: Who will supply the media-savvy consumer” and the afternoon session was entitled: “New Models, New Rules: Managing the personalized media revolution.”
On demand technology of all sorts, delivered from all platforms, is irrevocably altering the way media companies do business and on demand, specifically wireless on demand, content was front and centre for panelists as they discussed how…
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I THINK WE’VE ALL HIT the point of severe fatigue when it comes to talking about telecom policy.
A number of senior telecom executives rehashed their recent regulatory presentations this week in Toronto during the third annual Canadian Telecommunications Forum, put on by Insight Communications.
The sessions featured all the usual suspects from Telus (EVP Janet Yale), MTS (SVP Chris Peirce), the CCTA (president Michael Hennessy) and others. But in their sessions on Monday, let’s just say the spark was missing that has been there at other times this year.
Bell’s main regulatory honchos, Lawson Hunter and Mirko Bibic actually…
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