VANCOUVER and NEW YORK – Telus has tapped U.S. content-management service provider Mediamorph to help streamline its contract management and programmer fee calculations in Canada’s à la carte TV ecosystem.
Mediamorph said that it’s cloud-based content-orchestration and financial-processing platform brings together contract, financial, and rights information in a single platform to help customers better understand content value, optimize how content is used, and provide value and optimal outcomes for consumers.
“Telus is committed to offering our customers the most compelling and flexible content packaging and pricing options available so they can choose how best to experience their favourite entertainment,” said…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has approved some, but not all, of Telus’ ideas on how the telco should use the remaining $1.34 million of its deferral account funds to improve access to mobile wireless telecommunications services for persons with disabilities.
The Commission said Monday in Telecom Decision 2017-252 that Telus' initiatives will increase access to accessible wireless handsets for Canadians with disabilities, as well as provide them with the product information necessary to make informed selections of wireless products and services.
The decision comes after a proceeding last year when Telus was asked to show cause why it should not be…
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TORONTO – Telus is offering Canadian businesses a new cloud-based call-handling solution for smartphones and tablets.
In tandem with enterprise cloud communication and collaboration solutions provider RingCentral Inc., Telus said Thursday that Telus Business Connect Mobile makes the features of an enterprise-grade PBX phone system available on smartphones and tablets, eliminating the need for a landline or expensive on-premise equipment.
This solution is designed to drive productivity and cost savings for businesses of any size with mobile or remote workforces through features including:
– an easy setup and an administrative self-serve web tool;
– an auto-attendant feature to answer every call…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is test driving a new pilot project with B.C.-based mobile app company eBrake Technologies to help curtail distracted driving.
eBrake is a new, Canadian-made mobile innovation for Android and iOS smartphones that completely blocks a driver from using their device while driving, but grants passengers unrestricted use. When it detects vehicle-related motion, the software-based solution locks any device it is installed on and blocks incoming notifications. To unlock the device, the user must complete eBrake's patent pending Passenger Unlock Test, something a driver cannot complete while driving. It is this test, continues the news release, that…
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TORONTO – TNW Wireless is asking the CRTC to compel Bell and Telus to provide it with wholesale roaming agreements in order to further the rollout of its proprietary iPCS technology that it says will offer Canadians a new low cost mobile service.
The company says that Bell and Telus have refused to sign roaming agreements with it, contrary to the Commission’s regulatory framework for wholesale mobile wireless services, because the two big incumbents “believe TNW will allow permanent roaming on their respective networks”. But that is not the case, continued TNW, which has also asked the CRTC to rule…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and Huawei say that they have achieved a significant breakthrough in the race to 5G after completing a 5G wireless connection using the global 3GPP technology standards platform at their joint 5G "Living Lab" in Vancouver.
The successful pilot not only demonstrates the dramatically faster wireless speeds customers will enjoy as 5G technology becomes mainstream – up to 200 times faster than current LTE networks, says the release, it also showcases the potential for 5G technology to deliver Wireless-to-the-Premise (WTTx) connectivity with speeds and reliability necessary to power the smart homes and businesses of tomorrow.
The pilot network was…
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TORONTO – Telus said Thursday that it will be the preferred Canadian carrier and retail partner of the new Essential Phone, available in store and online this summer.
The premium smartphone, the first from Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s new company Essential, will debut in Canada and the United States. The Essential Phone is expertly crafted using titanium and ceramic, and features an edge-to-edge full display and dual camera system that eliminates any 'camera bump' in the industrial design, reads the news release. It also comes with top-of-the-line specs and 128GB of memory. The device will be part of a modular…
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TORONTO – Telus has struck a technology and innovation partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to support its conservation efforts in all 10 provinces.
The three-year, $750,000 agreement will provide NCC with internet connectivity, data capacity, hardware, a wide area network (WAN) and new phone systems, to help more effectively protect nearly 3,000,000 acres (1,214,056 hectares) of natural spaces. This will support direct protection of habitats for more than one-quarter of Canada's most imperiled plants and animals, including 75 of Canada's most endangered species, reads the news release.
"We are proud to be the official technology partner of…
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EDMONTON – Telus will invest $4.2 billion in new communications infrastructure and technology across Alberta through 2020, including $900 million this year alone, the company said Monday.
Telus said that the funds will be used to extend its gigabit-enabled Telus PureFibre network directly to thousands more homes and businesses in rural and urban communities, further strengthen 4G LTE wireless service, and continue development and testing on next-generation 5G wireless service, plus support healthcare and education services with new technologies.
These investments are consistent with Telus' capital expenditure guidance for 2017, reads the press release.
"Our sustained investment across Alberta underpins our unwavering…
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VANCOUVER – Telus will invest $4.7 billion in new communications infrastructure and technology across British Columbia through 2020, including $1.2 billion this year alone, the company said Wednesday.
Telus said that the funds will be used to extend its gigabit-enabled Telus PureFibre network directly to thousands more homes and businesses in rural and urban communities, further strengthen 4G LTE wireless service and continue development and testing on next-generation 5G wireless service through the 5G Living Lab in downtown Vancouver, plus support healthcare and education services with new technologies.
Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday, Telus said that by year end…
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