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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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OTTAWA – The phrase ‘you win some, you lose some’ rang true this week for Sun News Network after it won one application for final offer arbitration with Telus, but lost another such application with Rogers.
In final offer arbitration, the Commission examines the final offers submitted by the parties and selects one in its entirety. The Commission’s decision is binding on the parties, though in rare instances, where neither offer is in the public interest, the Commission may reject both offers.
In its decision between Sun News Network (SNN) and Telus, the Commission said that it considered rates paid by…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and Vancouver-based Mojio announced a partnership Tuesday that will bring connected-car technology to Canadians later this year.
Connected cars are touted as the next big thing for consumers when it comes to Internet of Things (IoT) technology. While this technology will one day be the norm in new vehicles, Telus and Mojio will allow Canadians to turn their existing cars into smart connected cars now.
As a cloud-connected device for the car and an app for the smartphone, Mojio includes a small cellular device that plugs into a car’s onboard diagnostics port and connects to the Internet via…
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VANCOUVER – Telus has added more than 50 CTV programs to its Optik TV lineup, making the likes of Amazing Race Canada, The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy and new shows such as Gotham and Forever available on demand and on the go.
Viewers can watch full episodes on demand and live stream programs whenever and wherever they are, either at home through their Optik TV digital box or on the move on their smartphone or tablet by accessing Optik's on the go app. Optik TV subscribers can also access live and on demand programming including CTV and CTV Two's complete schedules…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is offering $1.2 billion of senior unsecured notes in two series, the first with a 10-year maturity, the second with a 30-year maturity.
Offered through a syndicate of agents led by RBC Capital Markets, BMO Capital Markets, and CIBC World Markets, the notes offering is expected to close on or about September 15, 2014.
The 3.75% 10-year notes, Series CQ, were priced at $99.775 per $100 principal amount for an effective yield of 3.777% per annum and will mature on January 17, 2025. The 4.75% 30-year notes, Series CR, were priced at $99.291 per $100 principal amount for…
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VANCOUVER – Telus Health has acquired electronic-prescription technology ZRx Prescriber from Quebec-based ZoomMed, making it the first Canadian healthcare technology company to offer insurance coverage validation nationally at the moment of prescription.
ZRx Prescriber is an intuitive web-based prescriber that allows physicians to use a mobile device to quickly and accurately write and deliver prescriptions for patients while accessing the patient's insurance coverage information directly at the moment of prescription. The technology will also allow physicians to prescribe within the patient's plan parameters when possible, speeding up the insurance claim and improving the patient's experience during the dispensing process.
This agreement,…
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