VICTORIA — Telus Health announced today it is expanding its mobile Health for Good program by partnering with Victoria Cool Aid Society to deliver services through one of its mobile health clinics to underserved and at-risk people in the Victoria area.
“The Cool Aid Mobile Health Clinic, powered by Telus Health, is a specially equipped clinic on wheels that provides trauma-informed, primary medical treatments, mental health services, addiction support as well as Covid-19 assessments and testing directly to people who need it most,” says Telus’s press release.
The mobile clinic is equipped with Telus Health’s electronic medical record (EMR) technology, Telus…
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CityWest, meanwhile, seeks to be its own last-mile provider
By Ahmad Hathout
Shaw Communications wants to, in some capacity, get involved in British Columbia’s $45.4-million Connected Coast fibre project, according to a briefing note obtained by Cartt.ca.
The company has asked the project’s main proponents, Prince Rupert’s CityWest and the Strathcona Regional District, to “partner to accelerate the delivery of service and/or as a key wholesale customer,” according to the note, written ahead of a February 3, 2021 meeting between company officials and B.C.’s Ministry of Citizens’ Services, which manages broadband in the province.
CityWest and Strathcona had chosen Baylink Networks as the prime…
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RED DEER, LETHBRIDGE and OKOTOKS, Alta. — As part of its $14.5 billion investment in infrastructure and operations across Alberta through 2024, Telus today announced it is investing $16.6 million this year to bring 5G to the communities of Red Deer, Lethbridge and Okotoks.
Telus is investing $9 million to enable Red Deer residents and businesses to access its 5G network, while investments of $5.5 million and $2.1 million will bring 5G to Lethbridge and Okotoks, respectively.
The company says 153 Alberta communities including 31 First Nations will have access to Telus’s 5G network by the end of…
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VANCOUVER — Telus International today announced it acquired Bangalore, India-based Playment, “a leader in data annotation and computer vision tools and services specialized in 2D and 3D image, video and LiDAR (light detection and ranging),” says a Telus International press release.
Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Playment acquisition follows Telus International’s recent purchase of Lionbridge AI, and builds on the company’s expertise and experience in data annotation, “uniquely positioning Telus International to support technology and large enterprise clients developing AI-powered solutions across a variety of vertical markets,” says the release.
“As one of the key enabling technologies…
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Rebuild already planned
By Amanda Oye
LYTTON, B.C. – Following record-breaking temperatures approaching 50 degrees celsius, a wildfire that began last Wednesday has wreaked havoc on Lytton, B.C., destroying much of the village, including its communication infrastructure.
“Our fibre network is totally torched,” said Daniel Mundall of Lyttonnet in an interview Monday.
As we reported in a feature story in 2018, Lyttonnet is a community cable, wireless and internet provider that spearheaded an initiative to build a community-owned fibre optic network in 2014 with the help of local volunteers. This was a significant advancement, since many in the Lytton community still relied…
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LONDON, U.K. — While rural Canadians have seen slight improvements in average mobile download speeds over the last 12 months, the gap between rural users’ download speed experience has become more prominent compared to networks in large urban centres, according to the latest analysis from analytics company Opensignal.
Generally speaking, Opensignal says rural users on Bell, Rogers and Telus’ mobile networks experience average download speeds which are less than half than those of its users in large population centres (PCs) on all three carriers.
For its analysis, Opensignal compared the mobile network experience of rural users, which make up almost 20%…
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CALGARY – As part of its Alberta investments announced last month, Telus said today it is directing $2 billion of that spend to connect more than 90% of Calgary homes and businesses to its PureFibre network, while also launching PureFibre X, what it is calling Canada’s fastest Internet speed tier with upload and download speeds of 2.5 Gbps.
The company’s 100% fibre to the home network is what allows it to deliver the speed. As well, PureFibre X Internet plans include the latest Wi-Fi 6, enabling better quality connectivity and connections throughout the home, which means it can provide…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC today announced it has approved recommendations made in a report submitted in October 2020 by the CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee’s (CISC) Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG), which now requires facilities-based wireless service providers to take steps to implement handset-based location technology in Canada by March 1, 2022.
With approximately 80% of 9-1-1 calls now being made on wireless devices, according to the Commission, wireless location information is critical when providing assistance to callers in emergency situations.
Advanced mobile location (AML) is a handset-based location protocol which can be used to find caller location for 9-1-1 calls made…
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Say letters telecoms sent to ISED in order to get funds
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Rogers and Videotron have promised Innovation Canada they will implement several key policies that will speed up and cheapen access to subsidized support structures if granted money from the $2.75-billion Universal Broadband Fund.
The two companies propose to participate in frequent meetings of a co-ordination committee of owners of passive infrastructure; streamlining and accelerating permit reviews, administrative processes and contracts; and establishing a “dig-once” policy, whereby other carriers will be able to lay their fibre down at the same time that their own infrastructure is being…
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To be an open-access network
BROOKS, AB — Brooks, Alberta, announced this week it has reached an agreement with a consortium led by Community Network Partners, a subsidiary of Crown Capital Partners Inc., for the construction and operation of a next-generation, fibre-optic broadband network capable of delivering 10-gigabits-per-second service to every household and business in the community.
The southern Alberta city of 14,400, which is about halfway between Medicine Hat and Calgary, will invest $5.3 million in the project and will own the backbone network. Community Network Partners will invest $15.7 million to connect residents and business locations to the backbone,…
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