TELUS

TELUS (,) is a Canadian company of Télécommunications, the second larger carrier of telecommunications of the country after Bell Canada, with 8.4 billion annual income, 4.7 million lines of access of network, of 1.05 million subscribers of Internet, and 4.5 million subscribers without wire. The company provides a range of cable and products without wire of telecommunications and the services including/understanding of the data, IP, voice, video, and services of entertainment. It is the primary education local supplier of phone service (ILEC) in Alberta, the major part of British Columbia, as well as in parts of Eastern Quebec close to city of Quebec and the area to Gaspé; it competes with Bell and other telcos as CLEC in much of areas of Canada which are apart from areas of the ILEC of Telus.

While the name of company is not an acronym, one writes to him typically in capital letter in the internal documentation of Telus.

History of TELUS CANADA

The history of Telus started with the telephones of government of Alberta (AGT), which was established by the provincial government of Alberta under the provincial liberal party in 1907 to acquire and actuate Bell Canada operations in the province, which was limited, unsatisfactory for the increasing payments, and which it government estimated that Bell had neglected in favor of central Canada. AGT was then commissioned to develop phone services for the whole province. Edmonton, however, had a city-had utility of telephone, EdTel, which contracted for the long distance with AGT.

The tensions burst between AGT and EdTel with beginning of the year 80, because EdTel wanted more income of the basic traffic than it produced for AGT. Without any good will by AGT to negotiate, EdTel started to scramble the basic discs of invoicing so that agt could not post for calls. AGT answered by leading all the calls of beginning of EdTel by the operators, who verbally asked for the visitor for the number that they called of. Thereafter, the companies agreed on a more compensatory arrangement.

The name of Telus mark was employed the first time in 1990 while a new name for the old AGT after him was privatisé by the provincial government of Alberta. In 1995, Telus bought EdTel of the town of Edmonton, finishing the era of the carriers of state-owned property of telecommunications in Alberta and continuing the deregulation of the market of telecommunications already moving. This deregulation also led to competition starting from the companies such as the communications of Rogers, Bell Canada, Primus Canada, and much of others; at the same time, technologies quickly incipient such as the cell phones, the networks of fiber and the service of Internet forced new Telus extend to enormously and quickly its offers. In 1996, Telus " mark principale" was presented, bringing products and companies below a unified identity. The marks of telephone and AGT of ED were withdrawn. 1

A new iteration of Telus was formed in January 1999 via the fusion of the general subsidiary company BCTel of telephone and electronics (left maintenantdes communications Verizon), the former service provider of telecommunications of monopoly in British Columbia, and the version of Alberta-only de Telus. Although BCTel was largest of the two companies of amalgamation the new entity decided to maintain the name of Telus, while giving up the regional limitations of BCTel stigmatize, while increasing its extension to compete with on national scales and international. Telus also moved the majority of the functions of administration in Alberta to benefit from the lower taxes and a lessdirected labor. New Telus, however, moved its head offices with Burnaby, BEFORE JESUS CHRIST, the old head offices of BCTel.

To the top of until in 2000, Telus and its predecessors -- AGT and B.C.Tel -- had been associates with seven other Canadian companies of telephone in what started like system of telephone of Transport-Canada, became Télécommunication Canada, and was now the alliance of Stentor. In 2000, Telus decided to compete with Bell Canada, making dissolve the alliance of Stentor. required Bell Canada, in their turn, entered territories of Telus to compete with.

In March 2000, Telus obtained a majority stake in QuébecTel, a local service provider in southernmost Quebec (QuebecTel had been previously had, like BCTel, by Anglo-Anglo-Canadian Telephone Company, which was alternatively a subsidiary company of general telephone and electronics of Connecticut). Later that the year, Telus made a acquisitiond' 6.6-billion of the communications of Clearnet, a numerical supplier of mobilophone by using the same technology of cellular network that Telus based in Toronto, Ontario, that it combined with the mobility of Telus to train a service provider without wire of telecommunications with the national range. Telus tried to further increase its extension in the sector without wire from communications in May 2004 when, by its division of mobility of Telus, the company made one $1.1-billion curious offered for telecommunications about Microcell (supports of Fido, a network of GM/M and thus noncompatible with that employed by Telus). Telus was outbid by Rogers thereafter, of the Canadian media strengthen.

History of TELUS QUEBEC (In the past Quebectel, before Quebec-Telephone)

1927

Honourable Jules A. Brillant acquires the National Corporation of Telephone and carries out the incorporation of the Corporation of Telephone and Valeurs of Public utilities of Quebec which, little time afterwards, is made up in consortium to take the name of the Corporation of Telephone and Being able of Quebec.

1936

The Corporation of Telephone and Being able of Quebec amalgamates its networks to form two subsidiary companies: The Telco Portneuf and Champlain, and the National Telco.

1937

The head office of the Corporation of Telephone and Being able of Quebec is localized in Rimouski.

1947

The Corporation of Telephone and Being able of Quebec gives up its statute of holding and becomes an operating company: The Corporation of Telephone of Quebec.

1955

The legislative Parliament of Quebec promulgates a special law confirming the company name of the new company which will bear from now on the name of Quebec-Telephone.

1966

The English Canadian Telco, subsidiary of GTE Corporation, becomes majority shareholder of Quebec-Telephone.

1997

Creation of a new consortium, the Group QuébecTel Inc. The company of management holds placements in its subsidiary companies, has and exploits the second telecommunication network in importance in Quebec.

And more recently…

March 2000

TELUS, the second company in importance in Canada in the field of telecommunications, announce its intention to acquire 70% of the actions of the QuébecTel Group. The president and chief of the direction of QuébecTel, Mr Hugues St-Pierre, are named within the leadership team (Executive TEAM Leadership) of TELUS.

May 2000

The shareholders of QuébecTel vote mainly in favor of the transaction which confirms the fusion of QuébecTel and TELUS.

August 2000

TELUS acquires Clearnet Communications Inc. and then becomes the most important supplier in wireless telephony in Canada.

March 2001

TELUS launches a vast program of options to buy of actions accessible to its 26.000 employees.

April 2nd, 2001

QuébecTel becomes TELUS Quebec.

Foot-note : TELUS is not a Sigle and is written with capital letters.

External bond

Official site of TELUS

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