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.[1]
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. The "Big 5" had become "enormous media conglomerates" active across Canada in many "telecoms, media and internet markets" with "mobile wireless and internet access.".
Timeline
1990
1991
1993
1995
Telus Corporation acquires Edmonton Telephones (ED TEL Inc) from the city of Edmonton Alberta for CA$467 million.[4]
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.[4][5] 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.
See also
- Alberta Government Telephones(AGT)
- Telus Health
- Telus Mobility
- Telus International
External links
References
- According to Bloomberg, TELUS Corporation is "TELUS Corporation is a telecommunications company providing a variety of communications products and services. The Company provides voice, data, Internet, and wireless services to businesses and consumers in Canada."^
- Barbara Wickens. A falling high-tech star Maclean's, December 17, 1990, retrieved June 10, 2020^
- 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.