CALGARY – If you’re unable to attend tomorrow’s Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert, you can watch the event on Telus’ YouTube channel.
Telus announced that it will webcast the Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert live and free of charge for viewers across Canada. The four-hour event, happening in Calgary at McMahon Stadium, kicks off at 6 p.m. MT (8 p.m. ET) Thursday. Telus says it is the largest benefit concert of its size to be live-streamed on the Internet.
Hosted by Canadian comedian Brent Butt, the benefit concert includes artists Jann Arden, Randy Bachman, Tom…
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TORONTO – Thirty industry experts are on the roster of seminar speakers at this year’s Canadian Wireless Tradeshow being held September 25-26 at the Toronto Congress Centre.
Speakers at Canada’s biggest B2B tech, telecom, and wireless networking event include Rob Auld and Sachin Mahajan, national sales director and M2M director, respectively, from Telus. BlackBerry developer Manny Elawar will provide an introduction to development on the BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Richard Trinder, Google’s head of industry for the tech sector, will talk about today’s wireless shopper.
The complete list of speakers can be viewed here.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – Telus announced today it is launching a new fund to help finance the creation of digital and TV productions focused on promoting health and well-being.
The Telus Fund, which will be an independently governed not-for-profit, plans to support 10 to 20 projects a year with up to $250,000 per project. Its mandate is to encourage the development and production of Canadian content showcasing social and technological innovation in the field of health and wellness.
“The Telus Fund reflects another step in our continuing commitment to realize social and technological innovation in this critically important sector….
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NETWORK EXPANSION NEWS
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Telus invests $600,000 for coverage along Vancouver Island highway
COWICHAN VALLEY, B.C. – Telus announced today it has invested $600,000 to bring new wireless coverage to more than eight kilometers of the Island Highway between Shawnigan Mill Bay Road and Lakeside Road located on the southern part of Vancouver Island.
The project is part of the 10-year Connecting British Columbia agreement signed with the Province of B.C. in 2011. Under the terms of the agreement Telus will connect more than 1,700 kilometres of unconnected highways with wireless service.
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OTTAWA – Saying the Minister of Industry has no right to change the policies governing the 2008 Advanced Wireless Spectrum auction now, Telus has filed an application in Federal Court asking for a judicial review of the June 28th spectrum transfer policy framework released by then-Industry Minister Christian Paradis.
(We predicted such a legal backlash in April when Industry Canada told the Canadian wireless companies then that it wanted to add new restrictions on the sale of wireless spectrum that had been cleared to be sold after a…
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TORONTO –Telus’s new two-year phone plans are available as of today, effectively replacing all previous three-year plans from the carrier.
The new Telus SharePlus plans feature unlimited nationwide talk and text and the ability to share data with multiple subscribers on the same account. Customers can choose their own mobile device (which comes with unlimited talk and text), and then select from a range of data plans starting at $15 for 250MB.
Since first announcing the new plans two weeks ago, Telus has actually reduced rates for its higher-end 3GB, 6GB, and 10GB data…
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OTTAWA – A non-partisan group made up of 150 CEOs from Canada’s leading companies is appealing to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to makes changes to federal telecommunications policy to ensure it does not discriminate against Canadian companies and unduly favour foreign wireless carriers.
In a letter sent Friday by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, council president John Manley (who is also a Telus board member) called on the PM to consider levelling the wireless playing field by amending policy to grant Canadian incumbents the same access to bid on wireless spectrum as it…
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NETWORK EXPANSION NEWS
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Bell Aliant continues FibreOp expansion with $20 million investment in North Bay, Timmins
NORTH BAY and TIMMINS, ON – Bell Aliant’s new $7 million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) expansion in Timmins announced Wednesday brings the total of the regional telco’s recent investments in Northern Ontario to $20 million. The FTTH network will reach approximately 15,000 premises in Timmins.
Last week Bell Aliant also announced it is investing $13 million to launch its FibreOP network to about 20,000 households and business in North Bay.
While both communities are part of Bell Aliant's operating…
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Vancouver, B.C. – Taking aim at standard TV remotes, Telus says its Optik Smart Remote app turns users of Android or Apple devices into power surfers by enabling them to swipe when browsing the guide and tap to change the channel once they link their mobile device with their digital box.
Telus claims you can also spend less time channel surfing by using guide filters to show only what you’re looking for including your favourite shows or what is most popular. You can also navigate the interactive program guide without interrupting the show you are viewing…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Tuesday it is doubling the scope of its share buyback program to $1 billion from $500 million.
The company’s board of directors approved an increase in Telus’ normal course issuer bid previously announced on May 21 to $1 billion, to be completed by the end of this year. Telus will repurchase approximately 4.9% of the company’s outstanding shares (about 31.9 million common shares).
As of June 30, Telus had bought approximately 8.4 million shares for a total of about $281 million, at an average of $33.40 per share.
In a…
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