VANCOUVER – Telus and Calgary-based Worldplay Communications today announced partnership aimed at giving Canadian businesses and consumers a new platform to connect virtually.
Consumers will have the ability to stream live events online and through the Optik TV platform, including community events, cultural or faith-based services and local sporting events, while businesses can evolve the delivery of virtual conferences, connect through secure video solutions, and create branded content pages where they can engage with their partners and customers, reads the press release.
“(W)e work closely with thousands of charities and grassroots organizations nation-wide and this new platform presents an exciting opportunity…
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VANCOUVER — Telus International’s initial public offering (IPO) of 37 million subordinate voting shares started trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange, with the company setting the initial IPO price at $30.70 (or US$25) per share.
At the end of Wednesday’s trading day, Telus International’s share price closed at $39.95 (up 30.13%) on the TSX and US$30.40 (up 21.6%) on the NYSE. The subordinate voting shares are trading under the ticker symbol “TIXT” on both stock exchanges, and the offering is expected to close on February 5, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions.
The company says…
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VANCOUVER — To honour Black History Month, Telus announced today it will donate the full cost of the rental of 50 curated films in its Celebrating Black History collection in the Telus Video on Demand library, up to $10,000, to the Black Health Alliance.
The special collection of films featuring Black artists or Black history is available now through March 1 to all Optik and Pik TV customers. The selection of Black biographical and historical films includes award-winning titles such as 12 Years a Slave, Harriet, Hidden Figures and Selma. Rentals cost between $5 and $7.
“Black History Month presents an…
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cloud-based software and services company Synacor today announced its work with popular health and fitness platform Openfit to make the company’s trainer-led workout content available to millions of Telus subscribers.
Openfit is using Synacor’s Cloud ID identity management to seamlessly authenticate Telus subscriptions and quickly extend access to millions of potential subscribers. This allows Telus subscribers to explore new content experiences outside the typical pay-TV viewing lineup, explains Synacor’s press release.
Telus subscribers can add Openfit to their Optik TV package or choose an Optik TV bundle that already includes Openfit. By adding Openfit, subscribers will enjoy…
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VANCOUVER — As Telus prepares to take its Telus International subsidiary public, the company announced today the expected share price for the initial public offering (IPO) as well as the subsidiary’s preliminary fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results.
Telus International is offering 33.33 million of its subordinate voting shares in the IPO, including 21.93 million from treasury and 11.4 million from Telus Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia (its selling shareholders). Telus says the IPO price is currently expected to be between US$23 and US$25 per share.
Following the IPO, Telus is expected to hold approximately 66.6% of the combined voting…
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VANCOUVER and TORONTO – This week, Telus announced the expansion of its innovative mobile Health for Good clinic program with its community health partner, Kílala Lelum Health Centre in Vancouver, and the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (CHC) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Social Medicine Program in Toronto.
The mobile clinics are specially-equipped vans whose staffers in Vancouver will provide trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive primary medical treatments, Indigenous Elder-led cultural care, mental health services, and addiction support directly to the underserved citizens of Vancouver.
In Toronto, the clinics “provide essential primary health and harm reduction services directly to underserved persons in neighbourhoods…
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But really, everyone is pretty good, winning in one metric or another…
SEATTLE — According to Seattle-based Ookla’s latest Speedtest Global Index, Telus was the fastest mobile operator among the top Canadian providers in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Using Speedtest Intelligence data from October to December 2020, Ookla gave Telus a speed score of 87.88 (calculated using results from devices built on modern chipsets). The next-highest speed score in Q4 2020 was awarded to Bell (84.51), followed by Rogers (73.05), Rogers’s flanker brand Fido (71.64) and Shaw’s Freedom Mobile (35.62).
In terms of latency, Freedom Mobile had the lowest…
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OTTAWA and BELMONT, Calif. — Telus and RingCentral, a provider of global enterprise cloud communications and contact centre solutions, today announced they are expanding their partnership to enable Canadian small businesses to transition their legacy phone systems to the cloud using Telus Business Connect.
An all-in-one communications solution for message, video and phone, Telus Business Connect is now available in two new plans — Business Connect Voice and Business Connect Voice Plus — specifically built for small businesses who want to replace their basic legacy services with “a cost-effective, trusted business solution and richer functionality that enables remote work and…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Back in August 2020, the CRTC found both Telus and Iristel in violation of the Telecom Act and after Iristel issued a Review and Vary (R&V) application, Telus filed one of its own, in November.
While Iristel had been determined guilty of traffic stimulation with area code 867 calls, Telus was accused of taking matters in its own hands and ending the practice by not connecting what it identified as dubious calls.
Iristel retorted on December 14, arguing that Telus was, in fact, violating the Telecommunications Act and restated the case of a lady, living…
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VANCOUVER — Telus today launched its Mobility for Good for Seniors program which provides Canadian seniors on the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) a free smartphone and subsidized mobility rate plan.
Available now, the program includes a free refurbished smartphone, unlimited nationwide talk and text, and 3GB of data for $25 per month. Mobility for Good for Seniors is entirely subsidized by Telus, with no cost to the government or taxpayers, the company says in its press release.
Across Canada, 2.2 million seniors receive the GIS from the federal government, and are eligible for Telus Mobility for Good for Seniors. To get…
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