Telus
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| Company type | Public TSX: T NYSE: TU |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1999 with the merger of Telus (Alberta) and BC Tel |
| Headquarters |  Burnaby, British Columbia |
Key people | Darren Entwistle, President and CEO |
| Revenue | C$9.074 billion |
| C$1.974 billion | |
| C$1.257 billion | |
Number of employees | 39,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.telus.com |
Telus (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a Canadian company that provides phone, internet, television, and cellular phone service. They are a very large company, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Canada. Telus logo is stylized as TELUS. Telus' head office is in Burnaby, British Columbia.
History
Telus was made from a merger of BCTel, the main phone company in British Columbia and Alberta Government Telephones, better known as AGT. AGT was owned by the government of Alberta. AGT wanted to separate from the government and formed a company called Telus in 1990. After that, they combined with BCTel to form the current Telus company in 1999. That remaining Telus company purchased Clearnet Communications, a cell phone company. Clearnet gave them the current style of their advertising, including the slogan ""The future is friendly."" Telus uses colorful animals to advertise their services.
Services
Telus has cell phone, internet, phone and telephone services. They have a CDMA network for most of their cell phones, but on November 5th, 2009, they started up a new HSPA network, similar to Rogers cell phone network. They have started this with Bell. It allows a very large selection of cell phones.[source?]
They have television and internet service based on ADSL service.[2] Telus is the major landline telephone service provider for British Columbia and Alberta.
References
- ↑ "Company Profile for Telus Corp (CA;T)". Retrieved 2008-10-02.
- ↑ Unfair use of spectrum across the spectrum: local ISP, The Review Newspaper
