OTTAWA – Telus Communications may not charge for service poles that it doesn’t own, says the CRTC.
In a decision issued Friday, the Commission found that Telus is prohibited by its Support Structure Service tariff from charging licensees for service poles it does not own, unless the company has an agreement through which it has the right to provide licensees with access to those poles and, hence, exercises control over those poles.
Responding to a complaint from Raftview Communications dated July 24, 2014, the CRTC directed Telus to withdraw all invoices and/or provide refunds to Raftview, as appropriate, in accordance…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Telus wants to help Canadian businesses accelerate their adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology with its new IoT Marketplace, billed as an online space offering IoT solutions from cutting-edge innovators and industry-leading technology companies.
The company said that the IoT Marketplace will simplify the complexity of IoT for businesses and allow them to quickly deploy a solution to help reduce costs and enhance their efficiency, productivity and profitability. For developers and IoT technology providers, the marketplace will provide an instant sales channel, with lead generation, the support of Telus' sales and marketing teams, and integrated billing.
"IoT technology has tremendous…
Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – TVO CEO and current TIFF chair Lisa de Wilde will join the Telus board of directors effective February 1, 2015.
Telus said Thursday that the appointment reflects its commitment to further strengthen its board by recruiting candidates who bring strategic expertise and significant operational experience across key markets.
De Wilde, pictured, served as Astral Television’s president and CEO prior to being named CEO of TVO in 2005. She also worked as legal counsel to the CRTC and later, as director general of its Cable Television, Specialty and Pay Television Service. Her board experience reflects her interest in film, media and…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU – With a cost profile four times higher, an unclear applications future and potentially new access technologies, fibre to the premise (FTTP) carries far too high a risk profile to allow competitors to ride on the networks at low mandated rates, Telus told the CRTC on Monday.
The communications giant kicked off the second week of a hearing into wholesale wireline services by arguing the question about mandating access to competitors isn’t about whether such a decision will cause Telus and others to stop investing, it’s about how and where that capital would be deployed.
“These networks require care and…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – An Ontario Court is allowing class-action lawsuits against Bell and Telus to proceed.
According to a Toronto Star report Friday, the lawsuit concerns a practice in which calls are rounded up to the farthest minute. For example, a call that lasts one minute and one second is rounded off to two minutes for billing purposes.
The suit alleges that while Bell and Telus had previously billed customers on a per-second basis, they changed their practices in mid-2002 so that customers were billed on a per-minute basis, with calls being rounded up to the farthest minute. This change was…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Telus is introducing two new solutions aimed at helping Canadian businesses leverage cloud-based technology to improve how they communicate with their customers, employees and partners.
Telus Cloud Collaboration enables businesses to deploy a range of unified communication and collaboration tools like voicemail, integrated messaging, and voice and video conferencing to help their employees work more efficiently and effectively, no matter where they are. Businesses also benefit from lower upfront costs and a predictable monthly fee that scales up or down as needs change.
Telus Cloud Contact Centre is a feature-rich and scalable solution that allows businesses of…
Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Despite growth in operating revenue, Telus posted flat profits in the third quarter ended September 30, 2104.
Consolidated operating revenue increased 5.4% to $3.02 billion, while net income of $355 million was flat year-over-year. Adjusted net income increased by 6.0% to $387 million. Earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 2.9% to $1.07 billion, though EBITDA excluding restructuring and other like costs increased by 4.3% to $1.1 billion.
Telus said that consolidated revenue growth was generated by strength in both its wireless and wireline operations, with network wireless revenue up 6.6% to $1.54 billion and wireline…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Telus is the first non-Bell TV service provider to offer that company’s new video streaming service currently code-named “Project Latte”.
In a release on Wednesday, Bell Media said that it has reached distribution deals to deliver its new SVOD service to Telus Optik TV, Bell Fibe TV, and Bell Aliant FibreOp TV set-top boxes, as well as via mobile apps, the web, game consoles, and smart TVs. Designed to complement traditional television, the service is available to every TV provider in the country.
As Cartt.ca reported last week, Project Latte pledges to deliver more than 10,000 hours of non-kids TV…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Thanks to multi-billion-dollar investments in spectrum and network over the past few years, a dedicated B2B network and its Health initiative, Telus is now positioned to capitalize on the current market enthusiasm for IoT (the Internet of things), according to Sachin Mahajan, Telus’s director of IoT.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show in Toronto, Mahajan outlined some of the technological possibilities — some practical and some more whimsical — provided by IoT, or machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. Not surprisingly, Mahajan spoke about potential healthcare-related IoT solutions more than once during his presentation.
Currently, wearable fitness gadgets, such…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – “What’s the phone company doing in healthcare?”
That’s a question that Paul Lepage (right), president of Telus Health, and Michael Guerriere (left), its chief medical officer, hear often.
The answer, in short, is that healthcare is Telus’ content play. While its competitors snap up content providers or add to their list of media assets, Telus has jumped headlong into the healthcare field, investing more than $1 billion in Canadian health IT over the last six years to capitalize on what it sees as that industry's enormous growth potential.
“The other telcos and cable companies are all making investments in broadcast assets and sports teams…
Continue Reading
