IT HAS BEEN nearly two weeks since Hurricane Fiona devastated Canada’s east coast, despite which some Canadians continue to be without telecommunications services.
This is not because service providers failed to plan ahead or because restoring service was not prioritized. Rather, it goes to show just how bad the storm was when it hit.
“Hurricane Fiona was the biggest storm ever to hit anywhere in Canada,” a Bell spokesperson told Cartt.ca via email. “Our preparations ensured our core networks remained largely operational throughout, but the damage to our infrastructure in the field is the worst we have ever seen in this…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Palo Alto Networks Inc. announced today it has been selected by Telus to assist with securing the carrier’s 5G network and IoT infrastructure.
Telus “will leverage Palo Alto Networks’ hardware and software firewalls to protect high-capacity network interfaces across its 5G stand-alone core and internet perimeter as well as to provide security to its IoT customers,” a press release reads.
Palo Alto Networks “will leverage its Zero Trust approach, a security framework that is rigorously applied through to the full ecosystem of controls — network, endpoint, cloud, application, IoT, identity and more — and that many organizations…
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ATLANTIC CANADA – Telecommunications service providers are working hard to restore service to parts of Atlantic Canada impacted by Hurricane Fiona over the weekend.
“While service has begun to restore for some of our customers in Atlantic Canada, there are many who remain impacted by this weekend’s hurricane,” Eastlink posted on Twitter yesterday afternoon. “Continued power outages as well as downed trees, poles and lines may still be impacting your service. Our crews are working hard to gain safe access to affected sites so that we can get you back up and running.”
Rogers also tweeted yesterday to say…
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TORONTO — Mediapro Canada announced today OneSoccer will show live, exclusive coverage in Canada of the three international friendly matches Canada Soccer’s men’s national team (CanMNT) will play this fall in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
CanMNT will face FIFA World Cup host team and current Asian champion Qatar this Friday, Sept. 23 at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
On Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, the Canadian men will play 2018 World Cup quarter-finalist Uruguay at the Tehelné pole Stadium in Bratislava, Slovakia.
CanMNT’s third international friendly…
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RIMOUSKI, Que. — Telus announced today it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of maCommunauté, a local channel on Optik TV that showcases the eastern Quebec communities of Rimouski, the Gaspé Peninsula, Saint-Georges, Sainte-Marie, Montmagny, Baie-Comeau, Sept-Îles and surrounding communities.
“Since maCommunauté’s launch in 2012, $10 million has been invested in producing original shows locally by creators from different regions of eastern Quebec,” says a Telus press release.
“With content covering sports and cultural events, stories about prominent figures from different regions of Quebec, brief video segments on health and the outdoors, and shows on local issues, Quebec communities and their interests…
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LONDON U.K. — Canada’s national mobile operators — Bell, Rogers and Telus — have all been named as “5G Global High Performers for 5G Reach” in Opensignal’s 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2022 report, released today.
The report from Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company, compared users’ 5G mobile network experience by operator, to see how the operators stacked up globally. Data for the report was collected from Jan. 1 to June 29, 2022.
Opensignal’s 5G Reach metric “measures how users experience the geographical extent of an operator’s 5G network. It analyzes the average proportion of locations where users were…
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OTTAWA – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) last week refused an application for spectrum licences in Manitoba to be transferred from Xplore Mobile Inc. to Telus Communications.
The application included licences in the Broadband Radio Service (BRS), Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-1) and Mobile Broadband Services (MBS) bands.
“The proposed transfer raised substantial concerns that the resulting concentration of spectrum would impede the ability of future mobile competitors to provide wireless services and effectively compete in Manitoba,” reads the decision, which adds the “proposed transfer is contrary to ISED’s policy objective for spectrum management.”
Xplore Mobile announced this past July…
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VANCOUVER and MUSQUEAM, SQUAMISH and TSLEIL-WAUTUTH TERRITORIES — Telus Communications, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and Indigenous artist Carey Newman today announced the launch of a new online platform, witnessblanket.ca, which invites Canadians to bear witness to the experiences of residential school survivors.
The digital platform shares stories from the Witness Blanket, “a powerful work of art made from over 800 items reclaimed from residential schools, churches, government buildings and other important cultural sites across Canada,” explains a Telus press release.
Newman, a master carver and Indigenous artist, created the artwork “as a national monument to recognize the…
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TORONTO — Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) announced today Navin Arora (above), executive vice-president of Telus and president of Telus Business Solutions, will be the opening keynote speaker at this year’s conference, taking place Nov. 21-23 at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto.
Scheduled to speak Monday, Nov. 21 at 9 a.m. ET, Arora leads a national team of more than 6,000 Telus team members and “is accountable for the end-to-end multi-billion dollar B2B portfolio nationally, including sales, marketing, product development, customer experience, strategy and operations for all TELUS business…
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TORONTO – Organizers of The Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) today announced Pamela Snively (above), Telus’ chief data and trust officer, will give a keynote speech at this year’s conference, which is being held Nov. 21-23 at the International Centre in Toronto.
Snively, a lawyer who dedicated much of her career to the development and operationalization of privacy best practices, leads the Telus team “responsible for privacy governance and data ethics, along with data management and a number of compliance functions, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs,” an email announcing her as a speaker for the conference says.
“Pam…
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