MONTREAL – Bell Canada today announced it will, effective immediately, “be waiving all Home Phone and consumer Mobility Postpaid Long Distance charges for calls from Canada to Ukraine until March 31, 2022,” according to a tweet from its @Bell_Support Twitter account.
“This will be applied automatically,” the tweet says.
This applies to the company’s flanker brand Virgin Plus as well. The @VirginPlus Twitter account sent out the same tweet as @Bell_Support.
Throughout the day, Rogers, Telus and Videotron made similar announcements.
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced today on its @TELUSsupport Twitter account it is waiving long-distance charges for calls and texts from Canada to Ukraine effective immediately, until March 12.
Due to the current events in Ukraine, Telus wants to help customers stay connected to family and friends in the country, the tweet explains.
This applies to the company’s flanker brand Koodo as well, which sent out the same tweet from the @Koodo Twitter account.
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LONDON, U.K. — In its latest comparison of the 5G experience across Canada’s three national carriers, U.K.-based mobile analytics company Opensignal finds Rogers Communications remains ahead of competitors Bell and Telus in overall 5G experience.
According to its 5G Mobile Experience Awards included in its Canada 5G Experience Report, February 2022 (please see chart above), Rogers is the outright winner of Opensignal’s awards for 5G availability, 5G games experience and 5G upload speed. Rogers is also a joint winner with Bell for the 5G reach award, and a joint winner with Telus for 5G voice app experience.
The remaining two…
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Telus claims Videotron subsidiary propped up to get western Canadian 5G licenses
By Ahmad Hathout
TORONTO – Telus argued in federal court earlier today a Videotron subsidiary in western Canada was propped up to qualify it for a slice of 5G spectrum outside of its home territory.
Fibrenoire, the subsidiary used by Videotron to qualify for a piece of 3.5 GHz spectrum that was set-aside for smaller bidders last summer, was not actively providing telecommunications services when it won the licenses that will allow the Quebec-based telecom to set up mobile wireless infrastructure in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, Telus told the…
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VANCOUVER — Ahead of Pink Shirt Day tomorrow, Telus Communications today announced the premiere of its first short animated children’s film, Skookum and Chums, which explores the importance of inclusivity and anti-bullying.
Produced with the support of Telus, the 11-minute animated film (pictured above) features Skookum, a flying turtle, who takes their animal friends on a trip into a magical forest.
“As a proud member of the Huron-Wendake Nation, filmmaker Fred Di Blasio took inspiration from his Indigenous heritage and identifies with the turtle as a bringer of insight and wisdom to children,” explains a Telus press release.
This short film “is…
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SEATTLE — The fibre offerings from Bell and Telus far outperform all other fixed broadband providers combined at the provincial level and in major Canadian cities, according to a recent report from Seattle-based fixed broadband and mobile network testing company Ookla.
The report uses new data from Speedtest Intelligence for Canada during Q4 2021 to analyze the speed advantage of fibre compared to other fixed broadband technologies such as DSL.
As Bell and Telus serve different parts of the country with their fibre offerings, Ookla “analyzed each province with an eye to how much faster the relevant fiber provider’s offerings…
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TORONTO — Just in time for Family Day weekend, WildBrain Television announced it will premiere three new exclusive series during its upcoming free preview across WildBrain’s entire English network, which includes Family Channel and Family Jr.
The freeview runs from Feb. 18 to March 31 for all Bell, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, Telus, Eastlink and Cogeco subscribers, and from March 1-31 for Videotron subscribers.
On Sunday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. ET/PT, The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy will premiere exclusively in Canada on Family Jr. Commissioned by WildBrain in July 2021, this 26-episode cabaret-style show is hosted by Toronto…
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VANCOUVER — Magnify Digital, a Vancouver-based digital marketing and audience analytics company, announced today it is renewing its Audience Development Pilot Project with Bell Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund and Telus Fund.
The three independent production funders first announced their support for Magnify Digital’s pilot project in April 2021.
“Using Magnify’s first-of-its-kind audience analytics platform ViewerCentric, the project will help Canadian producers collect data to increase discoverability of their content and drive success,” reads a press release.
“We are thrilled to advance this important collaboration to help producers and media businesses build audiences. ViewerCentric is growing in terms of its features, database…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC today dismissed an undue preference and undue disadvantage complaint from Telus against TLN Media Group.
The complaint was made in July 2020. Telus was seeking to distribute some of TLN Media Group’s third-language services, however, “the parties have been engaging in challenging negotiations,” the CRTC’s decision says.
Under the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations, Telus must carry one Canadian third-language service for every non-Canadian third-language service it offers. If possible, the services are supposed to be in the same principal language.
Telus previously carried TLN, which had Italian-language programming, to meet this requirement, however the programming service became an…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced today its fourth quarter 2021 results, which reports approximately $4.9 billion in consolidated operating revenues and other income for the quarter ended Dec. 31 – a 20% increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.
This was partly due to a $410 million pre-tax gain from the sale of its financial solutions business, excluding which the increase to Telus’ operating revenues and other income for Q4 2021 would have been 9.9%, according to a press release.
The company also reported adjusted EBITDA increased 7.6% to $1.5 billion in Q4 2021 compared to the same quarter the…
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