VANCOUVER — In its second year supporting small businesses during the pandemic through its national #StandWithOwners initiative, Telus announced today it is doubling its commitment by investing $1 million to promote Canadian small businesses in 2021.
“Small business owners have demonstrated incredible strength and ingenuity as they pivoted and innovated throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and Telus is proudly supporting them with funding, localized advertising, and mentorship as they move forward,” reads Telus’s press release.
“We continue to be inspired by the courage and determination of Canadian small business owners as they navigate long periods of lockdown and evolving restrictions to keep…
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TORONTO — Vice Media Group today announced the three docuseries being financed by the Telus Fund as part of the “Take Care” initiative, a new content incubator which funds the creation of short original docuseries focused on the mental health and wellness of young Canadians.
With the three projects heading into production this summer, each of the docuseries will be available on Vice’s online Take Care hub and social media pages later this year, says Vice’s press release. The Telus Fund is financing up to 75% of each project’s budget.
“The Take Care initiative is an opportunity for young up-and-coming…
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QUÉBEC CITY — For a rural broadband project costing $127.72 million, Videotron will receive a combined amount of $121 million in funding from the Canadian and Quebec governments, as part of the Canada-Quebec Operation High Speed initiative, to deploy high-speed Internet services to 13,300 households in the Abitibi-Témiscaminigue and Nord-du-Québec regions by September 2022.
The announcement was made today by the federal and provincial governments who have committed to providing $826.3 million in combined funding through the Operation High Speed program, first announced in March, to ensure connectivity for 150,000 underserved homes in rural Quebec by September of next year….
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Want faster, cheaper piracy measures
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The country’s largest broadcasters and telecoms want new copyright legislation to include provisions that give the courts the ability to order website-blocking, prevent the CRTC from overruling blocking orders, and to expand authority over other intermediaries to choke off infringers.
Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Cogeco, Quebecor, SaskTel, Eastlink, and the Canadian Communications System Alliance also want the legislation to reflect the courts’ ability to unilaterally order search engines to de-index infringing websites, social media platforms and to force hosts, like Cloudflare, to take down infringing services and not direct users to it,…
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CANADA’S ISPs ALWAYS want to perform well in PCMag’s analysis of the fastest speeds delivered to their customers.
The magazine regularly, with the help of Ookla and actual customers using its Speedtest, takes a look at the internet service providers across Canada to show who offers the fastest Internet service.
The upload and download speeds are given weighted scores and analyzed by PCMag according to a speed index (PCMag Speed Index or PSI). This year’s big winner was Beanfield Metroconnect, which notched huge performance gaps over its competition in Toronto.
When it comes to national providers however, Telus was the fastest.
“Last year,…
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OTTAWA — Kanata North Business Association (KNBA) today announced, in partnership with Telus and CENGN (Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks), the launch of the 5G Innovation Zone in Hub350 as part of the Kanata North Technology Park in Ottawa.
Telus is the anchor 5G partner for the Hub350 technology centre, which is expected to open this summer, and the 5G Innovation Zone will be a hub for conceptualizing, developing, testing and commercializing real-world applications for 5G, says KNBA’s press release.
The Kanata North tech park is home to the largest concentration of technologists, entrepreneurs, start-ups and post-secondary…
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VANCOUVER — To celebrate Pride Month, Telus announced today it is donating the full cost of movie rentals, up to $15,000, from the Celebrate Pride collection in its video-on-demand library to support Rainbow Railroad Canada, a community-led not-for-profit organization helping LGBTQ+ people around the world to find safety from persecution.
From now until June 30, Telus will donate the full cost of rentals from the curated Celebrate Pride collection of 39 films, which include award-winning and iconic features such as Ammonite, Boy Erased, Milk, Moonlight and Rocketman. The collection is available to all Telus Optik and Pik TV customers…
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VANCOUVER — Fobi AI (formerly Loop Insights) announced this week it signed a proof of concept with Telus to integrate the Fobi real-time data analysis and reporting platform into the Telus Insights location services data solution which the telecom company provides to its business clients.
At the end of May, Vancouver-based Loop Insights rebranded as Fobi AI. Just prior to that, Loop Insights and Telus signed a multi-year reseller agreement under which Telus will sell Loop (now Fobi) solutions directly to its business customers.
Under the new agreement, Fobi and Telus are undertaking the POC trial for 90 days,…
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Auction starts today
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The strings attached to the federal government’s 3.5 GHz spectrum, whose auction beginning today will repurpose portions of it for mobile wireless use, include a speed-to-deployment component that complements federal policy to accelerate connectivity throughout the country by the end of the decade.
Winners of the auction, which Innovation Canada said will take “several weeks,” will have to deploy the spectrum largely within the 2030 timeframe for which the federal government hopes to provide access to all Canadians to high-speed internet.
While the focus is largely on what the 3.5 GHz spectrum will do for…
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VANCOUVER — Telus today announced its new sustainability-linked bond framework, which aligns the company’s financing strategy with its goal of achieving operational net carbon neutrality across all of its global operations by 2030, says the company’s press release.
Developed in accordance with the International Capital Market Association’s Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles 2020 (SLBP), the framework outlines the process Telus intends to follow when issuing new sustainability-linked bonds. Leading independent environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics has reviewed Telus’s framework and is of the opinion it aligns with the SLBP, according to Telus’s press release.
A copy…
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