BROWSING: TELUS

TORONTO-Canadian wireless carriers are bracing for tougher times as they gear up for faster 2.5-generation (2.5G) services. The four national carriers-Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility-posted disappointing second-quarter results, reflecting the overall slowdown in the market."Canadian pricing is even more competitive...

SEATTLE, United States—Just a month after Canadian carrier Telus Mobility announced it would switch from an airtime billing system to a pay-per-use system, the carrier added Mforma Corp.'s games and entertainment package to its content offerings. Under the agreement, Mforma will offer its content...

MARKHAM, Ontario—Telus Mobility said it has agreed to use Lucent Technologies' SurePay Prepaid Service for Mobile Networks to standardize its prepaid calling management platform."Standardizing with Surepay across our entire national prepaid base provides us with the ability to offer all our Pay and Talk...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. completed the sale of its directory information services business to Verizon Information Services, a Yellow pages and online directory provider.Telus said it would use the $527 million in gross proceeds to pay down debt and help finance its national growth...

SEATTLE-Applications management and platform provider ViAir Inc. said Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will integrate ViAir's WirelessInbox messaging application with its mobility office inbox product, a move which will give Telus' customers wireless access to Outlook and Lotus Notes, the companies said.

AustraliaTelstra Wholesale and Vodafone Australia announced a new three-year generic access agreement deal that they said will replace previous agreements and further enhance the ongoing relationship between the two companies. The new agreement, which takes effect immediately, is for transmission and interconnect products.CanadaSiGEM Inc.,...

In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...

INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. plans to take advantage of debt capital markets in both Canada and the United States as it struggles to develop a long-term debt financing plan.The Canadian telecommunications company said it has appointed two underwriting syndicates in connection with concurrent public...

BURNABY, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications company Telus Corp. recently released its first-quarter 2001 results, posting a revenue gain of 21 percent to almost $1.17 billion, compared with the year-ago quarter's $9.65 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization grew 8.5 percent, totaling $428 million...

TORONTO-It is clear that Canada's dominant trunked radio network is going to get much more dominant.Last year's C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) blockbuster deal by Telus to acquire Clearnet Communications means a big boost in Mike, Clearnet's dispatch network. With Mike's iDEN proprietary digital dispatch...

SCARBOROUGH, Ontario- Telus Mobility, the national wireless telecommunications business unit of Telus Corp., announced what it said are record first quarter wireless subscriber results.The "results represent an all-time record first-quarter for Telus Mobility, and in fact are the highest number of first-quarter net additions...

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp., a Canadian telecommunications company, has extended its employee stock options to every employee in the company.A three-year plan called "Team TELUS Options" has been launched that provides more than 20,000 employees with 100 stock options in Telus non-voting shares at...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless and Telus Mobility will partner to develop a next-generation CDMA Type II PC card for use in laptops and handheld devices.According to the companies, the new card will provide voice and data communications up to 144 kilobits per second, a...

TORONTO-The established Canadian wireless fraternity scooped up most of the available spectrum licenses contested in the February auction. All told, Industry Canada's auction for wireless spectrum in the 2 GHz band raised US$964 million for federal coffers.Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility were the two...

At the end of bidding last Thursday, total bids among the five Canadian companies still vying for 40 megahertz of additional spectrum in the 2 GHz frequency band had reached about $557 million.A second company dropped out last week, leaving only five of the...

After nine rounds of bidding, Industry Canada's auction of 62 individual personal communications services licenses covering 16 markets across Canada garnered $142.3 million in total high bids.Seven companies qualified for the bidding, including the country's four incumbent operators, Bell Mobility Inc., Rogers Wireless Inc.,...

Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun.The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to "transform wireless devices into personal entertainment terminals...

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. and Clearnet Communications Inc. announced all of the conditions for Telus' offer to purchase Clearnet's debentures have been satisfied, and Telus will take up and pay for the debentures that have been deposited.

TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology.In January, KDDI launched international roaming services in Canada in cooperation with Telus Mobility, a major Canadian carrier. Canada will become the fifth country...

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. announced plans to make an offer to acquire all of the 574,000 outstanding Clearnet Communications Inc. warrants in exchange for Telus warrants.

OTTAWA-Seven companies will participate in a spectrum auction in Canada set to begin 15 January. Forty megahertz of spectrum in the 2 GHz band will be awarded.Mobile incumbent carriers Bell Mobility Inc., Microcell Telecommunications, Rogers Wireless Communications and Telus Corp. will all participate in...

TORONTO-Wireless carriers Clearnet Communications and Microcell Telecommunications have won a key regulatory battle to gain competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) designation in Canada. The change in status will allow the two companies to offer their wireless subscribers free listings in the white pages, a...

TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...