TORONTO – Looks like Telus customers won’t have to wait until December 2nd to reap the benefits of the CRTC’s new Wireless Code, as the carrier today announced new two-year plans for consumer and small business customers.
Available as of July 30, the new Telus SharePlus plans will 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 ranging from $15 for 250 MB…
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VANCOUVER – Telus says a recent phone scam affecting customers primarily in B.C. and Alberta is fraudulent and is warning its customers to hang up if they receive such a call.
The latest scam involves “spoofing,” where the caller reprograms the caller ID signal to make it appear they are calling from a legitimate business, claiming to represent that organization.
The caller claims to be from Telus or another company, saying the person they called has won a prize. Other variants of the scam ask you to press 1 to receive a prize. The customer…
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STRATHROY and GEORGETOWN, ON – Telus announced Wednesday the expansion of its 4G LTE wireless network service to Strathroy and Georgetown, Ontario.
The addition of the two Ontario communities follows last week’s 4G LTE network launch in Atlantic Canada: Annapolis Valley (Wolfville, Port Williams and Kentville), Nova Scotia, and Edmundston and Miramichi, New Brunswick.
Telus’ 4G LTE service now covers more than 70% of the Canadian population across approximately 170 markets.
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TORONTO – Reaction to last week’s news of Verizon’s entry into the Canadian wireless market has sent Telus and Rogers shares into decline, while market caps for BCE, Shaw, Bell Aliant and MTS have increased – a move that Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai Ghose calls “baffling.”
Ghose says Rogers and Telus were oversold based on the perceived risk of Verizon entering Canada. Rogers and Telus shares have dropped 10.3% and 12.1%, respectively since June 17, when the Globe and Mail first reported Verizon was looking at getting into the Canadian market by purchasing Wind Mobile. In…
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TORONTO – Telus and Rogers both announced today they are each offering the fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity, as well as the iPad mini with Wi-Fi + cellular.
Both carriers are offering the new iPads with a range of contract-free data plans to connect to either Telus’s 4G network or to Rogers’ LTE network.
The fourth generation iPad features a 9.7-inch Retina display, new Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera and ultrafast wireless performance. The iPad mini is 23% thinner and about half the weight of the third generation iPad and comes with…
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NETWORK EXPANSION NEWS
Launches this week:
Rogers-MTS agreement allows Rogers LTE Max expansion in Manitoba
TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced Thursday it will bring Rogers LTE Max to customers in Manitoba through a province-wide network sharing agreement with MTS Inc.
Starting Monday, Rogers will roll out LTE Max, an LTE network deployment that enables speeds of up to 150 Mbps, to customers in Winnipeg, Brandon, Victoria Beach, and Grand Beach. Rogers will continue to expand LTE Max coverage to additional markets in 2013, including Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, Steinbach, and Ste. Anne, with plans…
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TORONTO – Telus officially terminated its plan to buy Mobilicity today after last week’s refusal by Industry Canada to okay the deal.
The struggling wireless provider announced it will now pursue its earlier recapitalization plan, which will be voted on by Mobilicity’s debtholders at a meeting on June 25. In a statement, the company said it “will continue to provide updates as warranted. Mobilicity continues to deliver an affordable wireless experience to its customers.”
The federal government rejected Telus’ proposal of $380 million to acquire Mobilicity on June 4, stating that it would not allow…
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TORONTO – Wind Mobile CEO Tony Lacavera told folks at the Canadian Telecom Summit this week that sure, with the federal government denying the bid from Telus to take over Mobilicity he’d be interested in talking about buying the struggling wireless firm, but there was another thing he said that caught our attention.
Namely, while Lacavera said thank you to the federal government for its announcements on spectrum transfers Tuesday, he also had some advice for the feds as well: Lift all foreign ownership restrictions in telecom, then let Bell and Telus merge and go international.
“We…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is not satisfied with Telus’ proposals to address violations of undue preference regulations regarding the marketing of OUTtv, and has given the telco until June 20 to come up with a more detailed marketing plan to promote the national gay and lesbian network as part of a lifestyle extra package on its OptikTV service.
In its December 2012 decision, the Commission found that Telus failed to market OUTtv in a manner comparable to other similar services on its Optik TV distribution service and subjected OUTtv Network to an undue disadvantage. The…
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OTTAWA – The federal government said Tuesday that Telus can not buy Mobilicity right now and also pushed out the date of the auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum to January of 2014.
Mobilicity’s network is built with AWS spectrum that was set aside for new competitors in 2008 and part of the rules of that set aside meant the spectrum could not be transferred to an incumbent for five years, a period which does not expire until February 2014. "Our government has been clear that spectrum set aside for new entrants was not intended to…
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