VANCOUVER — The Telus Friendly Future Foundation is making a $200,000 donation to the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada to help support its Covid-19 Crisis Support Fund.
More than 93% of former youth from care of the child welfare system who applied last month to the Children’s Aid Foundation’s Covid-19 Crisis Support Fund sought emergency assistance to pay for food and housing, according to the news release.
This contribution builds on Telus’ ongoing partnership with the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada through the Telus Mobility for Good program, which provides free smartphones and data plans for two years to young…
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VANCOUVER – This week Telus officially launched Call Control, an new service the company says is an improvement on the CRTC’s best practices for call filtering services and universal call blocking.
Call control is a free feature available to home phone customers in B.C. and Alberta – and now to all wireless customers nationally which blocks the majority of autodialed calls from reaching customers.
The majority of nuisance calls, including scams, are generated by computer-dialers that enable spammers to dial many numbers at once and are normally unable to respond to the Call Control message. Of the first group of…
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CALGARY and EDMONTON – Telus announced today it will help bring virtual summer science camps to Canadian kids this summer.
The company, along with Telus Spark, Telus World of Science – Edmonton, and Microsoft announced they have joined forces to bring science camps online with the launch of Virtual Summer Camps powered by Telus.
“As social distancing guidelines evolve at different paces throughout the country, these camps will ensure children across Canada will have access to a world-class STEM-based learning program this summer,” reads the press release.
The camps will be run by the experts at Telus Spark and Telus World of…
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OTTAWA — Through its Data for Good program, Telus said today it is working with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to support government efforts in Canada to flatten the curve and reduce the spread of Covid-19.
NSERC is the largest funder of natural science and engineering research in Canada. Telus will share insights with NSERC researchers free of charge and provide “supervised and guided access to strongly de-identified and aggregated network mobility data” to be used by NSERC-eligible researchers studying and assessing the Covid-19 crisis, says the news release.
For research projects that qualify, NSERC will offer…
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VANCOUVER and TEMPE, Ariz. — Telus and cyber safety expert NortonLifeLock have partnered to launch today Telus Online Security, which features Norton 360 Basic and Norton 360 with LifeLock Basic Plus, providing cyber safety, device security and online privacy services.
This marks the Canadian debut of NortonLifeLock’s full-service identity restoration and protection services and is an exclusive offering to Telus Internet customers in British Columbia and Alberta at launch, according to the news release. The product will be exclusive to Telus home internet customers at launch.
“NortonLifeLock has a stellar track record of helping protect consumers’ devices and online privacy,…
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By Ken Kelley
OTTAWA – An exchange between a Telus executive and a Calgary MP got a little heated late Thursday during a virtual meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
The bulk of the tension stemmed from a line of questioning directed at Telus EVP and chief customer officer Tony Geheran by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel-Garner (Calgary Nose Hill).
After asking the executive for the company’s cost per gigabyte when it comes to serving its customers (something Geheran said he didn’t have at hand and offered to send after the meeting) and noting that the figure doesn’t seem…
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Licensing of business could be “lucrative,” says CEO Entwistle
By Ahmad Hathout
VANCOUVER – Telus CEO Darren Entwistle said there is an opportunity for the company to reach global markets with the proprietary health business it has built over the years, as the company reports a massive surge in demand for its virtual healthcare applications this year.
The Vancouver-based telecom has invested over $2.5 billion over 10 years toward digital progress in the Canadian healthcare space, building a portfolio of products including electronic prescription business PrescribeIT, medical information sharing service MedDialog, and virtual healthcare applications Akira and Babylon.
Now, it’s beginning to reap…
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QUESNEL, B.C. – Telus has acquired independent broadband, wireless, telecom and TV provider ABC Communications, Cartt.ca has learned. The company is said to be the largest privately-held telecom provider in the province. The deal closed on May 1st.
Founded originally as an office telephone supplier 1989 in Quesnel, B.C., where its head office remains, in 1994 ABC was one of the first companies to offer Internet in the province. While not well known in the east, the company’s operations are province-wide.
Its wireless network includes over 200 transmitter sites across the province. ABC provides broadband service to customers in remote and…
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VANCOUVER — Telus will focus on helping the Covid-19 pandemic during its Telus Days of Giving activities this year.
The company is also hoping to inspire Canadians to give back in their own way and share their acts of giving on social media with the hashtag #StayGiving. Telus made the announcement in a news release Monday.
One of the activities Telus is encouraging Canadians to do is to make a mask for themselves or a loved one, with the goal of creating more than 100,000 masks for Canadians.
“For 15 years, our Telus Days of Giving have inspired our extended Telus…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced today it is extending its program of crediting health care workers for two months of free wireless service from Telus or flanker brand Koodo to front line workers in B.C. working with Vancouver Coastal Health and the Fraser Health Authority.
The company previously launched this in Ontario and Quebec and will soon do so in Alberta, says the press release.
“The incredible strength, resiliency and compassion our remarkable frontline healthcare workers have demonstrated during this public health crisis is nothing short of extraordinary,” said Darren Entwistle, president and CEO, in the company press release. “One…
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