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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NETWORK EXPANSION NEWS
Launches this week:
Telus continues investing in western Canada: $1 billion in B.C., $17 million more in Manitoba
VANCOUVER – Following its announcement Monday of a $700 million investment to upgrade its network in Alberta, Telus is continuing with its push into western Canada today with further investments of $1 billion in infrastructure and facilities in B.C. and $17 million to expand its 4G LTE network in Manitoba.
The $1 billion B.C. infrastructure investment is part of a three-year, $3 billion commitment made a year ago, and builds upon the…
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Ontario Superior Court of Justice today approved Telus’s proposed $380 million acquisition of struggling wireless carrier Mobilicity.
The court granted approval for the deal to proceed under the Canadian Business Corporations Act.
In a statement, Telus chief marketing officer David Fuller said the decision puts the company “another important step closer to completing this acquisition, which will allow Telus to save the jobs of Mobilicity’s 150 employees and continue service for their 250,000 customers without the disruption that company’s current financial issues could cause.”
Telus made the announcement to acquire Mobilicity…
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EDMONTON and CALGARY – Telus announced today it is investing $700 million to connect hundreds of Alberta homes and businesses to its fibre optic cable network.
Today’s announcement is part of the telco’s three-year, $2 billion infrastructure and facilities investment made a year ago. Since 2000, Telus has invested $26 billion in operations and technology throughout the province
This year’s infrastructure investment of $700 million will be used to connect homes and business to Telus’s Gigabit Passive Optical network (GPON), which offers internet speeds of up to 50 MB per second, and to further extend…
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VANCOUVER – As thousands of Telus employees get ready to take part in the company’s eighth annual day of giving this weekend, Telus announced today they are extending the invitation to customers and business partners to take part in the event.
On May 25, almost 13,000 Telus employees and friends will volunteer to help with more than 500 activities all over Canada, such helping at children's hospitals, feeding homeless citizens, sorting thousands of pounds of food bank donations and completing ecological face lifts at community parks.”
From now until June 15, Canadians are invited to…
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TORONTO – Mobilicity announced today that its debtholders have approved the plan for Telus to acquire the wireless carrier for $380 million.
“This is a significant step towards final approval of the plan through which the business, combined with the financial strength of Telus, can be continued in a way that will benefit our customers and employees,” said Mobilicity president and COO Stewart Lyons in a prepared statement.
In a separate release,Telus CMO David Fuller said of today’s vote: “Today’s positive vote is an important step on the road to allowing Telus to sustain service…
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