History of Telus

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This is a timeline of Telus Corporation (also referred to as Telus Corp.), a publicly traded Canadian multinational holding company offering a range of telecommunications, health, safety, and security products and services. The company operates Telus Communications Inc., which offers telephony, television, data and Internet services, Telus Mobility, a division that offers wireless services, Telus Health, which operates companies that provide health products and services, and Telus International which operates worldwide, providing multilingual customer service outsourcing and digital IT services. [Notes 1]

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By 2014, Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, Telus, Shaw Communications, and Quebecor Media—the "Big Five"—were the largest telecommunications companies in Canada, in that order. [1] The "Big 5" had become "enormous media conglomerates" active across Canada in many "telecoms, media and internet markets" with "mobile wireless and internet access.". [1]

Timeline

1990

1991

1993

1995

Telus Corporation acquires Edmonton Telephones (ED TEL Inc) from the city of Edmonton Alberta for CA$467 million. [3]

1996

In their 2003, report Telus said that their approach to the market is to work as a "united team, under one brand" a "single", "consistent" TELUS "identity", to contrast with "confusing corporate structures and brand proliferation" and to avoid the duplication of "resources and expertise". The brands ED TEL and AGT were retired in 1996. [3] [5] :8 TELUS, capitalized, refers to either Telus Corporation or Telus Communications.

1997

On May 8, TELUS Cable Holdings Inc. (TELUS), won Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval under the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, to start multimedia service trials in Edmonton and Calgary. [6]

1998

1999

On 21 January 1999, BC Telecom shareholders, upon the unanimous recommendation of its board of directors overwhelmingly voted to merge with Telus Corporation who had earlier in the week on 19 January 1999 received similar approval from its shareholders. The US based carrier GTE who had owned 56% of BC Telecom would retain 26% of the new company. The merger was worth CA$8 billion, had a combined work force of 25,000 employees, and created Canada's second largest telecommunications company behind Bell Canada. This effectively may have been the precipitous that would redraw the map for Canada telecommunications industry, which until now had major players who were part of the Stentor Alliance and constricted within their traditional provincial boundaries and facing increasing outside pressures brought upon them by the industry's deregulation. Initially the merger was registered as BCT.Telus Communications Inc. and later the new company adopted the Telus name and moved its corporate offices to BC Tel's former headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. [9] [10]

2000

2004

2005

2007

2008

2011

In April 2011, Telus Corporation re-introduced Clearnet as a discount brand in Western Canada. [21]

2012

In June 2012, Telus Corporation decided to stop activating customers under the Clearnet brand. [22]

2013

In October 2013, Telus Corporation received Industry Canada approval to purchase Public Mobile , acquiring 280,000 customers in Ontario and Quebec. [23]

2014

In March 2014, Telus Corporation made the decision to shutdown Public Mobile stating the need to move its customers from an outdated network and to ensure the survival of its brand. [24] The move would anger affected customers who would need to purchase new cellphones to migrate onto the Telus 4G network, and would create further criticism from consumer advocates and further fuel the ongoing debate about the lack of competition in the industry in Canada. [25]

2014 In a 2014 report by the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project (CMCRP), Telus ranked third with 15.9 percent of media market share, out of the 5 largest telecommunications companies in Canada, along with Bell Canada (BCE) with 27.9 percent, Rogers Communications 16.4 percent, Shaw Communications 7.8 percent, and Quebecor Media 5.3 percent. [1] Their combined revenues account for 73.3 percent of all telecommunications revenues in Canada. [1] According to the CMCRP, the "Big 5" "have built enormous media conglomerates that have a reach across many telecoms, media and internet markets across Canada" with "mobile wireless and internet access" as their "nucleus" or "pipes". [1]

2015

2017

In October 2017, Telus International announced that it had signed a deal to initially purchase a 65% stake in Xavient Information Systems, an information technology consulting firm headquartered in California, with the right to acquire the remaining interest on or before 31 December 2020 for a total of US$250 million. At the time Xavient had a workforce of 8,000 employees located in the United States and India. [27]

2018

2019

2020

See also

Notes

  1. According to Bloomberg, TELUS Corporation is "TELUS Corporation is a telecommunications company Archived 11 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine providing a variety of communications products and services. The Company provides voice, data, Internet, and wireless services to businesses and consumers in Canada."
  2. Neldner also served as on the boards of utility companies—ATCO Ltd., Canadian Utilities Limited, Alberta Power Limited, CU Power International Limited, and the manufacturing company—ATCO Structures Inc.
  3. CBC described Telus as the "Vancouver-based telecom conglomerate".

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