VANCOUVER — Telus announced Tuesday it has decided to continue with the company’s current remote working arrangements for its employees until 2021, in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
“Telus feels it is important to provide team members and their families with the necessary information, clarity and support as to the continuation of the current work arrangement remaining in place from now to the conclusion of 2020 at a minimum, so they can manage the logistics and responsibilities of their professional and personal lives through the back-to-school period and the fall/early winter timeframe,” reads the Telus news release.
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By Greg O’Brien
VANCOUVER – As expected, Telus executives said their company is very well positioned to weather whatever storm the newly launched Shaw Mobile releases into the Albert and British Columbia telecom marketplace.
Pointing to its long-term track record, relationships with its customers and solid distribution channels (Telus has 300-plus retail stores in the two provinces compared to 19 for Shaw, although the latter does have additional retail partners like Wal-Mart), company executives on its second quarter results conference call with financial analysts on Friday sounded pretty confident they have prepared well for this new competitive brand.
“We’ve been…
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Adds 141,000 new customers
VANCOUVER – Telus today reported consolidated operating revenue of $3.7 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a 3.6% increase over the same period a year ago.
However, earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization decreased by 1% to $1.4 billion while adjusted EBITDA was down 2.9%. This decline reflects the financial impacts arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, said the company’s press release, mainly thanks to lower wireless roaming revenue (partly offset by growth in wireline data service margins), expanded services and subscriber growth, an increased EBITDA contribution from our organic Telus International (TI) business, and…
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VICTORIA – As part of its PureFibre rollout, Telus said today it is investing $90 million to connect more than 90% of homes and businesses in the District of Saanich (pop 113,000), which is just outside of Victoria, B.C.
Construction is already underway, and the company anticipates the majority of homes and businesses will be connected by the end of 2022.
“Telus is proud to make this generational investment in Saanich, providing the technology to bridge geographic and socio-economic divides right now, and well into the future, connecting citizens to the people, resources and information that matter the most to them,”…
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GATINEAU — Telus today received approval from the CRTC for a broadcasting licence to operate a national on-demand TV channel, which according to Telus’s application proposes to air a variety of general interest content.
Update: The wording of this new licence confused us and others a little bit, but we’ve been informed by Telus this is simply a licence to operate its own pay-per-view service.
Some of the English-language programming indicated in the application includes live and tape-delayed professional and amateur sports, and live and tape-delayed special events including programs of comedy sketches, improvisations, unscripted works, stand-up comedy, music and dance,…
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TMG CEO says deck is stacked against him
By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Telus has filed a complaint against Telelatino Media Group, accusing the ethnic broadcaster of undue preference, undue disadvantage and tied selling, in violation of the CRTC Wholesale Code. Telus is also asking for leniency from the Commission because it has been in non-compliance with BDU regulations because of this dispute.
In its regs, the CRTC says a distributor which carries a third-language, foreign-owned service must also carry, in the same tier, a Canadian service serving the same ethnic group as long as one is available. It’s known as…
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VANCOUVER — Smartphone users can now track pets, purses, backpacks and other items (including the people carrying them) with the new Track+ device launched by Telus today.
Track+ can be used in Canada and the U.S. anywhere 4G LTE wireless network coverage is available. Users don’t need to be Telus wireless subscribers to purchase and use the tracker device. The Track+ app can be used on iPhones (iPhone 5 or newer with iOS 11.0 or newer) and newer Android smartphones (with Android 5.0 or newer).
The retail price for the device is $120, but the Telus Track+ plan allows customers to…
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TORONTO – Telus today was named the fastest internet service provider (ISP) in Canada by PCMag.
The publication recognized Telus as the fastest among the major ISPs. Rogers placed second and Bell, third, among the six large ISPs PCMag recognizes in Canada. The magazine used results from 33,782 tests in Canada taken between June 1, 2019, and June 2, 2020.
“We take 80 percent of the download speed, 20 percent of the upload speed, and add those numbers to generate a PCMag Speed Index (PSI). That number makes it easy to perform an at-a-glance determination of exactly which ISP is the…
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KIBBUTZ SHEFAYIM, Israel and VANCOUVER – Deep-learning medical imaging analytics company Zebra Medical Vision announced today it has entered a strategic collaboration with Telus Ventures to grow Zebra-Med’s presence in North America.
With FDA clearances and Health Canada approvals in hand, the company’s technology “provides a fully automated analysis of images generated in the imaging system using clinically proven AI solutions trained on hundreds of millions of patient scans to identify acute medical findings and chronic diseases,” reads the press release. The company’s AI solution has also been deployed for Covid-19 detection and disease progression tracking.
“Zebra-Med is deeply committed…
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VANCOUVER and RIMOUSKI, Que. — Telus announced Tuesday it is expanding its Internet for Good program to support people living with disabilities who receive financial disability assistance from the provincial governments in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec.
The Internet for Good program (known as the Internet for the Future program in Quebec) currently provides high-speed broadband Internet at home for only $9.95 per month ($10/month in Quebec) to families receiving the Canada Child Benefit from the federal government.
In order to help more Canadians, Telus has expanded the program’s eligibility to also include more than 110,000 British Columbians and…
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