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Articles tagged with: Telus
Canada's Telus - Payback Period at All Time Low
Canadian number three player telus took its total base to 5.568m by the end of 2007, by adding 161k new customers in Q4 2007 - its best quarterly result of the year. Total net additions for the year stood at over half a million customers, equivalent to an annual increase in proportionate terms of just over 10%. The prepaid part of the business punched above its weight in 2007 accounting for 29.3% of the net additions, thereby increasing the weight of prepaid in the mix from 19.3% at the end of 2006 to 20.2% a year later. more
Telus Corp. 4Q Net Up 66% on Favorable Tax Adjustment
Favorable tax adjustments and lower financing charges contributed to a 66% improvement in telus Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings, while revenue rose 3%. more
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Global W-CDMA base doubles as CDMA decline gathers pace
The dominance of the GSM family of technologies continued to increase in the year ended 30th September 2007 as a 25.9% increase in the number of 2G GSM customers was boosted by a 102.1% increase in the W-CDMA base. Overall the increase amounted to 28.8%, exceeding the global total of 24.2% and taking the proportion of the global customer base accounted for by the two technologies to 86.0% from 82.9% a year earlier. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, sprint-nextel, verizon-wireless, iden, lte, telstra, kddi, sprint, nextel, vivo
Canadian Operator Considering Switching from CDMA to GSM
Reports in Canada's newspapers over the weekend are suggesting that local CDMA operator, telus is considering a switch to the rival GSM technology. The move is thought to be mainly to secure an increasing share of international roaming revenues and expand the company's handset offering. more
Related Tags: wcdma, roaming, cdma2000, rogers, Canada
Canada to Hit 20 Million Subscribers, But Still Room for Growth
The Canadian market looks set to reach 20 million customers by the end of the year, having added 0.54 million customers in Q3 to hit 19.54 million at the end of the quarter. Traditionally Q4 is the strongest quarter of the year, so it will be surprising if Canada does not break the 20 million barrier in the current quarter. This impending milestone should not be treated with anything like jubilation, however, since the Canadian market is still extremely underpenetrated by reference to its socio-economic peers, with a rate of just 58.4% at the end of Q3. Since Q3 06, penetration has only risen by 4.2pp, and the total market has grown by just 8.7%. more
Related Tags: mts, arpu, rogers, bell-mobility, bell, sasktel, Canada
Canada to Allow a 4th National Cellular Carrier
Canada is preparing to allow the entry of a 4th nationwide operator in the country after the Minister of Industry, Jim Prentice has released details on how the auction for Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum, to be held next May will be conducted. Of the 105 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum to be made available, 40 MHz will be set aside exclusively for new entrants to bid on. The other 65 MHz will be available to all bidders. more
Related Tags: radio-spectrum, advanced-wireless-services, aws, Canada
Canadian Operator Launches Qualcomm Based UI on Samung Phones
Qualcomm and Canada's telus have announced the launch of a new customized user interface (UI) based on Qualcomm's uiOne offering. Commercially available on the Samsung U540, the solution enables telus to create a branded homescreen that makes it easier for customers to access telus' SPARK data services. more
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Rogers Wireless and TELUS Mobility Q3 2007 Results
First and third placed Canadian mobile operators, Rogers Wireless and telus Mobility, both recorded their best net additions of the year so far in Q3 2007, as is traditionally the case in this seasonally-affected market. telus came in very slightly short of what it achieved in the third quarter last year, with 135k net new connections, against 137k 12 months earlier. Rogers did 20% better than it managed last year, with 243k net additions (up from 203k), almost exceeding the recent records set in Q3 2005 and Q4 2006 when it registered 244k new customers. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, rogers-wireless, iden, rogers, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
Canadian businesses ready to adopt wireless technology
Research from Canada's telus and IDC shows Canadian business is on the cusp of a new wave of adoption in wireless business technology as firms move beyond the basics of mobile email and web access. More than 90% of Canadian firms now have mobile email and web access and IDC Canada reports that businesses will make changes in the coming year that improve business performance such as replacing paper forms with wireless solutions. more
Related Tags: mobile-email, idc
Canada's Rogers keeps gap with Bell to over 1m, as Telus closes up
Canadian market leader Rogers Wireless has maintained its lead over Bell Mobility at over 1m customers, despite being outperformed by its arch-rival in terms of proportionate growth for the first time in five quarters. Quarter on quarter growth at Rogers fell to an all-time low of just 0.7% in Q2 2007 whilst Bell Mobility recovered from its first ever negative quarter in Q1 2007 to post growth of 1.1%. This reduced Rogers' lead over Bell from 1.043m to 1.028m customers, as it moved onto a total of 6.91m to Bell's 5.88m. As the market leader has opened up its lead over Bell over the last couple of years, so third placed telus Mobility has closed down the gap on its nearest rival. telus trumped both companies with net additions of 128k in Q2 2007 - more than both Rogers and Bell put together - closing the margin between itself and Bell to 612k and taking 30% out of the advantage held by the larger company a year earlier. more
Related Tags: rogers-wireless, rogers, bell-mobility, bell