VANCOUVER – Telus announced its second quarter results today, which includes a 9.5% increase in adjusted EBITDA over the same period in 2020, to $1.5 billion.
The company further reported consolidated operating revenues and other income increased to $4.1 billion – a 10% increase from the same period last year, according to a news release. Telus had 223,000 customer net additions, which is up 82,000 over last year, and 89,000 mobile phone net additions, representing an increase of 28,000 over last year.
“We’re obviously very proud of the quarter,” said Jim Senko, president of mobility solutions at Telus, in an…
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TORONTO — The Telus Friendly Future Foundation announced today it has donated $200,000 to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation to support the development of The Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health virtual hub at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
The donation will help accelerate the expansion of this first-of-its-kind virtual hub, which hosts trauma-informed, culturally sensitive health information and tools for Indigenous communities from trusted Indigenous sources, says a press release.
The hub will directly support healthcare practitioners, hospital staff, learners, students, patients, partners and as many as 10,000 community members through direct partnerships and at least 50,000 people…
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VANCOUVER — Telus International, a leading provider of digital customer experience solutions for global brands, announced today the launch of Intelligent Insights, which the company describes as “a tool-agnostic platform to monitor and manage robotic process automation (RPA) solutions and bots.”
Intelligent Insights lets companies track their digital operations on a single platform to monitor effectiveness, cost savings and opportunities for innovation, says a press release.
“Over the past year and a half, we have seen businesses significantly increase their spending on automated solutions to stay connected with their customers, ensure business continuity and realize efficiencies as a way to address…
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FORT MCMURRAY – WOOD BUFFALO, AB – Telus announced yesterday it is collaborating with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on a $21 million project to connect several communities directly to the Telus PureFibre optic network.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo will contribute $13.2 million, making this “one of the single largest partnerships between Telus and a municipality to expand connectivity to benefit local residents and businesses,” according to a press release.
The project will connect residents and businesses in Draper, Janvier, Fort McKay, Conklin, Anzac and Gregoire Lake Estates directly to gigabit Internet speeds and will expand cellular…
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VICTORIA and QUEBEC CITY — Telus Communications announced today it is investing more than $100 million combined in Victoria, B.C. and the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec this year to further support residents and businesses in those communities through the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recovery.
In Greater Victoria, Telus is investing $63 million in 2021 as part of its $13 billion investment in infrastructure and operations across British Columbia through 2024. The company’s investments in Greater Victoria include expanding its 5G network, building new wireless infrastructure, and connecting more households and businesses to its gigabit-enabled PureFibre network, says a Continue Reading
VANCOUVER and ST. LOUIS — Telus Agriculture, the ag-tech business unit launched by Telus in November 2020, and Rabobank, a global food and agriculture bank, today announced they have jointly acquired Conservis, a Minneapolis-based company “that integrates disparate farm technologies into one streamlined interface to manage the business of farming,” according to a press release.
With its farm management system platform, “Conservis enables family and institutional farms to organize data from different sources, eliminate error-prone manual entries, create winning business plans, and confidently manage costs, production and marketing throughout the entire year,” reads the release.
Rabo AgriFinance, a Rabobank subsidiary…
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Rogers, Telus and Bell have all put out new low-cost and occasional-use wireless plans in compliance with a CRTC directive to do so by today.
The directive was part of the outcome of the CRTC’s recent review of mobile wireless services and required each of the three national companies to provide customers with three new low-cost mobile plan options.
The Commission mandate says the carriers must include unlimited Canada-wide calling, unlimited text messaging, and a minimum of 3 GB of data. Fido (owned by Rogers), Koodo (owned by Telus) and Virgin (owned by Bell), are all…
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VICTORIA — Telus Health announced today it is expanding its mobile Health for Good program by partnering with Victoria Cool Aid Society to deliver services through one of its mobile health clinics to underserved and at-risk people in the Victoria area.
“The Cool Aid Mobile Health Clinic, powered by Telus Health, is a specially equipped clinic on wheels that provides trauma-informed, primary medical treatments, mental health services, addiction support as well as Covid-19 assessments and testing directly to people who need it most,” says Telus’s press release.
The mobile clinic is equipped with Telus Health’s electronic medical record (EMR) technology, Telus…
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RED DEER, LETHBRIDGE and OKOTOKS, Alta. — As part of its $14.5 billion investment in infrastructure and operations across Alberta through 2024, Telus today announced it is investing $16.6 million this year to bring 5G to the communities of Red Deer, Lethbridge and Okotoks.
Telus is investing $9 million to enable Red Deer residents and businesses to access its 5G network, while investments of $5.5 million and $2.1 million will bring 5G to Lethbridge and Okotoks, respectively.
The company says 153 Alberta communities including 31 First Nations will have access to Telus’s 5G network by the end of…
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VANCOUVER — Telus International today announced it acquired Bangalore, India-based Playment, “a leader in data annotation and computer vision tools and services specialized in 2D and 3D image, video and LiDAR (light detection and ranging),” says a Telus International press release.
Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Playment acquisition follows Telus International’s recent purchase of Lionbridge AI, and builds on the company’s expertise and experience in data annotation, “uniquely positioning Telus International to support technology and large enterprise clients developing AI-powered solutions across a variety of vertical markets,” says the release.
“As one of the key enabling technologies…
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