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11 unusual facts about Telus


2007–08 QMJHL season

At the season-opening press conference, the QMJHL announced in partnership with Telus, all 630 regular season games would be available by internet broadcast.

Cameron Bright

His first acting job was in a commercial for Telus, which was soon followed by a guest appearance on the television series, Higher Ground.

Enderun Colleges

Joined by Daniel Perez, an alumnus of Les Roches International School of Hotel Management, with prominent business leaders Jean-Henri Lhuillier of PJ Lhuillier, Inc., Rosanna Fores of TELUS International Philippines, John Tiu of JTKC Group of Companies, Alvin Lao of Chemrez Technologies, and senior US-based executives from Hyatt Corporation.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company

International voice traffic is carried for GT&T by Verizon; international collect calling is provided through agreements with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Call Home Telecom, Bell Canada, Telus and British Telecom.

Northern Saw-whet Owl

After an online "Critter Vote", the Saw-whet Owl became the new star of Telus' mobility campaign in the summer of 2011.

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

2006 - The Western Division was renamed the Telus Division, under a sponsorship agreement with the Telus Corporation.

Skins game

It is currently sponsored by Telus and is officially known as the Telus World Skins Game, hosted at a different golf course each year within Canada.

Steve Podborski

In 2003, Podborski joined the Telus telecommunications firm, leading to a position of National Director, Community Sports.

Telus

For the Christmas season in 2005, an ad campaign was launched involving a hippopotamus named Hazina from the Greater Vancouver Zoo, accompanied by the song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas".

Timeline of Edmonton history

1994 – Telus, the city's publicly owned telephone company is privatized after 91 years of service.

XPress Telecom

XPress's sister company Bravo Telecom operates the same system in neighboring Saudi Arabia, one advantage of that is that customers of either network can place international push-to-talk calls, similar service is available between Sprint Nextel iDEN network subscribers and their counterparts in other countries such as Nextel in Mexico and Telus iDEN subscribers in Canada.


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Allstream Inc.

At the time of the decision, Alberta's AGT (later known as Telus) also had come under federal regulation, and all other Canadian carriers followed before the end of the 1990s.

British Columbia Technology Industry Association

High-profile members of the BCTIA include companies such as Sierra Wireless, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, PMC-Sierra, Bell Mobility, Electronic Arts (Canada) Inc., IBM Canada, Maximizer Software, the Microsoft Canada Development Centre, Nokia, Sony Canada, Sun Microsystems, Telus, and Ballard Power Systems.

Canadian online media

The Canadian service would include MLSE, UFC, Vevo, Rogers on Demand, Telus OPtik, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, MSN Canada and the involvement of other companies.

Clearnet

Clearnet Communications, a mobile telecommunications company that merged with Telus in 2000

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

GTE

When BC Tel merged with Telus (the name given the privatized Alberta Government Telephones (AGT)) to create BCT.Telus, GTE's Canadian subsidiaries were merged into the new parent, making it the second-largest telecommunications carrier in Canada.

Multichannel television in Canada

The introduction of IPTV services by telephone providers such as Bell (Fibe TV), MTS (MTS TV), SaskTel (MaxTV), and Telus (Optik TV) brought additional competition to the multichannel television industry in Canada as an alternative to incumbent cable providers.

Robert Cecil Palmer Secondary School

Recently, the senior basketball team have made it to the 63rd Annual Telus-BCHSBBA Boys Provincial Basketball Championships, held in the PNE Agrodome.

Rossdale, Edmonton

The Edmonton Trappers also called Telus Field home up to the end of the 2004 season, when the franchise was moved to another city.

Service Improvement Plan

For example, Northwestel and Telus more clearly defined the service boundary between Wonowon and Fort St. John, British Columbia.

The Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta area was transferred to Northwestel as a result of an order in 2003, since it could be served by Northwestel at a much lower cost than by Telus.

Tbaytel

Tbaytel has domestic roaming agreements with providers Rogers, MTS Allstream, TELUS (CDMA only), Bell (CDMA only), Bell Aliant (CDMA only) and SaskTel (CDMA only).

Telecommunications Workers Union

In early September 2005, an automobile accident knocked out phone service to about 70 Telus customers on Gabriola Island, one of whom required a direct 9-1-1 line due to a medical condition.

Telus Field

Telus Field uses natural grass in the outfield and FieldTurf in the infield; originally AstroTurf was used but it was replaced in 2005 with the more modern type of turf, FieldTurf.

Tera-play

In developed markets, patients will be able to access connected health or telehealth services via remote monitoring systems and “virtual doctor visits” supported in Canada by TELUS and in Germany by Deutsche Telekom.

UBC War Memorial Gymnasium

The gymnasium has hosted the likes of the Harlem Globetrotters, the B.C. high school basketball championships, Billy Idol and is the current venue for the finals of all division of the TELUS Basketball Classic.