VANCOUVER — Telus announced today the launch of Telus Health Virtual Care, the next evolution of its national, employer-focused virtual care service.
Telus Health is broadening its offering by integrating the best-in-class features of Akira by Telus Health — the company’s bilingual, on-demand virtual care service — and EQ Care — its recently acquired company that delivers specialized virtual care functionalities and advanced employee assistance features such as LifeJourney.
In addition, through a recent integration (which we reported on here), Telus Health Virtual Care is also the first service in Canada to be able to securely share patient…
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VANCOUVER — Digital marketing and audience analytics company Magnify Digital announced Tuesday morning Bell Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund and Telus Fund are joining together to support a pilot project designed to drive discoverability of Canadian content and to provide content producers with tools and insights to help build audiences for their projects.
Vancouver-based Magnify Digital says its new audience analytics platform, ViewerCentric, is a cornerstone of its so-called Audience Development Pilot Project, which aims to standardize audience development requirements and reporting periods across the three funders.
ViewerCentric aggregates and visualizes audience data from multiple sources in one dynamic platform to help…
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VANCOUVER and TORONTO — Telus’s strategic investment arm, Telus Ventures, announced today it has invested in spatial technology company Dark Slope’s immersive learning business Lumeto, which has been incubating for 18 months as it developed its Involve XR learning platform for the healthcare and public safety sectors (XR is a catch-all term for augmented reality or virtual reality-type platforms).
Alongside the public launch of Lumeto, Dark Slope announced the closing of its pre-series A round of financing which raised $3 million and was led by MaRS IAF and included Telus Ventures and Golden Ventures as new investors. Original investors…
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VANCOUVER – While the Samsung Galaxy A32 5G and A52 5G devices are now available to consumers, including through Telus, the company announced a matching program where Samsung phones will be donated to its Mobility for Good program.
Telus said for every A32 5G and A52 5G device purchased between April 23 to May 31, it will give a new Samsung smartphone to its Mobility for Good program, which supports Canada’s most vulnerable community members with subsidized smartphones and plans.
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LLOYDMINSTER, AB/SK — Lloydminster, the city which straddles the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, will receive $36 million in new fibre network infrastructure from Telus and SaskTel, the two companies announced today.
On the Alberta side of Lloydminster, Telus is investing $30 million to connect more than 90% of the city’s homes and businesses directly to its PureFibre network. Construction on the project is already underway and Telus says it anticipates the majority of households and businesses that will be covered by its PureFibre network to be connected by the end of 2021.
Telus’s gigabit-enabled PureFibre network is the largest 100%…
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QUEBEC CITY — As part of the Quebec-Canada Operation High Speed initiative, the federal and provincial governments announced today a joint investment of $45 million awarded to Telus and Sogetel which will help to deliver high-speed Internet access to more than 8,000 households in the Chaudière-Appalaches region by September 2022.
Telus will receive $13.3 million in funding to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to 2,700 homes, while Sogetel will receive $31.7 million to provide coverage to 5,400 households in the region, says the governments’ joint press release, which did not outline the service providers’ investments in these broadband projects.
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VANCOUVER – In time to celebrate Leonardo Da Vinci’s 569th birthday Telus is adding a new historical drama, Leonardo, to Telus Presents on April 15.
The new show is added to the current 16-title collection of Telus Presents – which gives Optik TV and Pik TV customers free on demand access to curated, hard-to-find programming from abroad.
The eight-episode series is from writers Frank Spotnitz (The X Files) and Steve Thompson (Sherlock) and takes viewers inside the life of one of history’s most well-known figures, showing the “drama and passion behind his genius – and keeps us hooked with a tantalizing…
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SAINT-TITE, Que. – Telus announced today it will spend close to $2 million in the Mékinac and des Chenaux RCMs (Regional county municipalities) in 2021 to accelerate the deployment of its PureFibre and 5G networks.
It includes deploying PureFibre to more than 1,200 families and businesses in Saint-Prosper, Saint-Stanislas, and Saint-Adelphe and bringing 5G to select communities in the region, including in Saint-Tite.
The company will also improve wireless coverage by bringing a new tower to Saint-Adelphe and expanding its 4G LTE network there. Telus has also submitted projects to the CRTC under its Broadband Fund program with the goal of…
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TORONTO — Telus Health announced today its employer-focused virtual care service, Akira by Telus Health, is now integrated with its own country-wide electronic medical records (EMRs) and in Ontario with Health Report Manager (HRM), the provincial report delivery system.
Telus Health currently has 30,000 EMRs users across the country, and this integration means “more informed primary care can be provided as critical patient health information is delivered seamlessly into one medical chart so patients using this virtual care platform through their employee benefits programs will effectively receive better continuity of care,” reads Telus Health’s press release.
“Until now, the process for…
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VANCOUVER — Following its $1.3-billion equity offering last week, Telus announced today a debt offering of $500 million of senior unsecured Series CAE notes with a 30-year maturity and 4.1% interest rate.
The notes are being offered through a syndicate of agents led by CIBC Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets, and together with BMO Capital Markets and Scotiabank. The offering is expected to close on or about April 5, 2021.
The notes were priced at $99.47 per $100 principal amount for an effective yield of 4.131% per annum and will mature on April 5, 2051.
“The net proceeds of this…
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