Telus employees prepare to strike [Jan 14-20]

An outage, potential strike motion and extra developments on Rogers’ merger with Shaw dominated telecom headlines this week.

As a recap, right here’s nearly every little thing that occurred in Canada’s telecom sector.

Enterprise

Some Bell customers in Ontario skilled a voice service outage earlier this week. The difficulty has since been resolved, and a few prospects needed to toggle airplane mode to revive service.

A CBC Marketplace investigation discovered Canada’s telecom monopoly is inflicting Canadians to pay increased cellphone payments.

The Home of Commons committee on business and expertise will study the Rogers-Shaw merger for the second time on January 25th. The committee beforehand examined the merger in March 2022, recommending towards it. The primary session was earlier than Rogers and Shaw mentioned they’d promote Freedom Cellular to Vidéotron, and the matter is anticipated to play a task within the second listening to.

Rogers, Shaw and Vidéotron filed their response to the Competition Bureau’s Appeal, calling it “collateral assaults.” The bureau is opposing the Competitors Tribunal’s choice to help Rogers’ merger with Shaw and Vidéotron’s acquisition of Freedom Cellular. The events will face the Federal Courtroom of Enchantment on January twenty fourth.

Telus staff are getting ready for a potential strike. In keeping with the United Steelworkers union, staff have been within the bargaining course of for 14 months with none decision. The union seeks job safety, native job creation, and better wages.

TekSavvy is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Committee (CRTC) to investigate Rogers’ deal to lease its broadband community to Vidéotron at a decrease charge than wholesale. TekSavvy says the transfer violates the Telecommunications Act.

A bunch of Canadian startups have completed work at Verizon and Centech’s 5G Development Hub. This system gives instruments for 5G and Cellular Edge Compute. The initiatives concentrate on manufacturing, transportation and power industries.

Globalive has launched a brand new public attraction towards Rogers’ merger with Shaw. NoMerger.ca permits Canadians to ship messages to MPs asking them to inform Minister Champagne to oppose the merger. Globalive beforehand supplied to purchase Freedom Cellular for $3.75 billion.

Offers

Koodo and Virgin are providing a $10/month low cost for 12 months for Lunar New Yr. Extra particulars can be found here.

Koodo will enhance buyer payments by $5/month in February. Study extra here. Earlier this week, Bell emailed former prospects with a $55/20GB plan offer. Verify your electronic mail to see in the event you acquired the win-back supply.

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