#telus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #telus, aggregated by home.social.
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Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile exposes Rogers, Telus, and Bell’s attempts to bypass new fee ban
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/07/20/freedom-calls-out-big-three-junk-fees/
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Freedom Mobile de Québecor expose les tentatives de Bell, Rogers et Telus de contourner l’interdiction des frais// Article en anglais //
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#askmastodon Anyone experienced with #cellphone #cellular #lte boost devices in #canada with #bell #rogers #telus ?
#carrier says "Can't comment on" them, vendors say "Sure, yah, works magically!".
Site is a tin can, essentially a Faraday cage. Client knew the latter term to use it, smile for the day.
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Now that Carney is PM, these predatory companies are confident they can violate citizens rights.
Telus, NO !!!
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TELUS will bring back device locking to their network starting 30 July 2026 “to prevent theft and fraud”
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/07/09/telus-crtc-phone-locking-prevent-theft/
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TELUS ramènera le verrouillage d’appareils à leur réseau à compter du 30 juillet 2026 « pour prévenir le vol et la fraude »// Article en anglais //
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More details. A coworker got this post from Rogers in another forum.
tl;dr - someone fucked up bad.
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Telus posted pictures of the cable damage that has taken down/degraded their Enterprise Fibre and phone in downtown Edmonton. Apparently it's at Jasper and 100th street. It looks like the entire right of way was ripped out. I've heard it's also affecting Rogers customers. I'm thinking this will take awhile to fix.
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@labournet_de Fuck #Telus
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#Türkei: Hasan Hüseyin, einer der von #Telus entlassenen Gewerkschaftsaktivisten muss nach Gerichtsurteil wieder als TikTok-Inhaltsmoderator eingestellt werden
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Bell, TELUS and Rogers (and their flankers) say that they will continue to charge their fees despite their ban by the CRTC, arguing that they are exempt
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/06/19/rogers-bell-telus-tell-crtc-keep-charging-fees/
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Bell, TELUS et Rogers (et leurs sous-marques) disent qu'ils continueront à facturer leurs frais malgré leur interdiction par le CRTC, argumentant qu'ils sont exempts// Article en anglais //
#Canada #Bell #Virgin #TELUS #Koodo #PublicMobile #Rogers #Fido #Chatr
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Dear @avilewis I believe you have a plank already about this… but time to turn up the volume.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #HNIC #Canada #endOligarchy #taxTheRich #eatTheRich #endBillionnaires #mediaForAll #media #Telus #rogers #bell
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Today Rogers have added national insult to our telecommunication oligarchy injury. They have taken away Hockey Night in Canada and Bell and Telus continue to fleece Canadians as well (look up their latest illegal fee…)
Enough is enough. The privatization and deregulation experiment has failed. Canadians are poorer, less cohesive, and less able to experience all that Canada and the world has to offer regardless of their station in life or technological ability. This started in the 80s. It must end now.
It is time to take back our national pastimes and restore the expectation that every Canadian can communicate through equal and free access to communications.
1) Nationalize all telecommunication infrastructure under the CRTC.
2) Nationalize Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Quebecor media assets into the CBC.
3) Restore ad free CBC broadcasts across all platforms.
4) Provide Fibre home Internet, TV, and Mobile connectivity to every Canadian for $10 a month within 5 years.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #HNIC #Canada #endOligarchy #taxTheRich #eatTheRich #endBillionnaires #mediaForAll #media #Telus #rogers #bell
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-telus-fees-rules-9.7236312 “Device handling charge”? Canadian cell providers continue in the grand tradition of rip offs. #bellcanada #Telus
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Canada’s 🇨🇦 activation fee ban is here, some carriers aren’t playing by the rules
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/06/12/canada-activation-fee-ban-live-carriers-not-following-rules/
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L’interdiction des frais d’activation au Canada 🇨🇦 est arrivée, mais certains fournisseurs ne jouent pas selon les règles// Article en anglais //
#Canada #Bell #Freedom #Fido #Koodo #PublicMobile #Rogers #TELUS #Vidéotron #Virgin
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I’m done with apps!! Every month I fight to get into my TELUS app or the website to see my bill. I’m constantly changing my password. It’s annoying as hell. Today I called them and requested a paper bill. I’m getting closer and closer to going back to a flip phone and paper communications! Ugh!! #Apps #TELUS #Paperbills
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TELUS was told that the $15 SIM card fee might be illegal by the CRTC
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/06/10/crtc-says-new-telus-sim-charge-may-violate-activation-fee-ban/
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TELUS s’est fait aviser par le CRTC que le frais de carte SIM de 15$ pourrait être illégal// Article en anglais //
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TELUS to replace network connection fees with a $15 SIM and eSIM fee. It applies to all their brands.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/06/09/telus-replace-connection-fee-mandatory-sim-charge/
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TELUS remplacera les frais de connexion réseau par un frais de SIM et eSIM de 15$. Ça s’appliquera à toutes leurs marques.// Article en anglais //
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I missed this at the time. TELUS is shutting their 3G network nationally on 1 March 2027, except Manitoba :flagmb:
In Manitoba, it’s already off the air.
https://www.telus.com/en/mobility/network/3g-shutdown
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J’ai manqué ça à l’époque. TELUS éteindra son réseau 3G au niveau national le 1er mars 2027, à l’exception du Manitoba :flagmb:Au Manitoba, le réseau est déjà éteint.
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@avilewis
I just received a water restriction notice for the #MetroVancouver area.I am now prohibited from even filling a bird bath yet Mark Carney is currently pushing for water guzzling AI Data Centers in Vancouver.
With climate warming, our community also deals with brownouts every summer. Where are Carney and #Telus going to get the power and water to run these unnecessary, resource heavy monstrosities?
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🇨🇦 Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver on Saturday to protest two planned AI data centres in the city. They were raising concerns about the amount of water and energy such facilities can use as the region faces tighter water restrictions. #telus #ai #vancouver www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Weekly output: WiFi hotspots, Android 17 + Gemini Intelligence, earning trust in AI, staying IRL in an AI world, AI image generation, photonics + data centers, Bill Gross on AI
SAN JOSE, Calif.–I’m back on the West Coast only three days after returning from Web Summit Vancouver, and my excuse for yet another transcon flight involves two different events: TechEx North America at the convention center here, where I’m moderating two panels Monday, and then Google I/O a little up the peninsula in Mountain View Tuesday and Wednesday. This is my second year at the first event but will be my 12th in-person I/O.
5/11/2026: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter
This update to this guide was originally going to review the Franklin A70 hotspot that AT&T introduced last year, but as I was about to file my edits I learned that AT&T was discontinuing that model. So I took out all of the copy assessing the A70 and restored the discussion of older models, which still left plenty of new text covering, among other things, how most high-end smartphone plans now include more data than you get with hotspot-only plans.
5/12/2026: In Android 17, ‘Gemini Intelligence’ Can Automate Tasks Across Apps, PCMag
Google dumped an enormous amount of news one week before I/O, to the point that I needed almost 1,200 words to cover it without even getting into Googlebook laptops, since PCMag’s Michael Kan wrote up that part of Google’s news. I trust that Google left something else to announce onstage at I/O Tuesday.
5/12/2026: Data done right: Earning consumer trust in an AI-first world. Web Summit
This was the second year in a row I had a Web Summit Vancouver panel featuring Pamela Snively, chief data and trust officer with Telus Communications. Knowing my fellow speaker’s conversational style made this panel easy; the topic was also a good one to explore.
5/12/2026: The Analog Renaissance, Why Human Connection and IRL Is the Most Radical Innovation, Frontier Collective
I showed up 5 minutes late to this offsite panel hosted by a local tech group because my floatplane joyride ended almost 30 minutes later than scheduled, a timing failure that in retrospect seems like something I was asking for. I then had a fun discussion with my fellow speakers–Raven White, TED’s director of audience development and community; Heather Odendaal, WNORTH CEO and founder; and Johnny Rodgers, a founding principal engineer at Slack–but I feel bad about inflicting “where is Rob?” uncertainty on the organizers and forcing emcee Theodora Jean to field my position for the first few minutes.
5/13/2026: What it actually takes to train frontier models, Web Summit
This was a late addition to my schedule, leaving no time for a prep call beforehand with Black Forest Labs co-founder Tim Dockhorn. That, in turn, meant I only discovered on stage that he can answer questions exceedingly briefly–which required me to improv a bunch of new questions. This sort of thing has happened on panels before; this time, I didn’t feel like I was flailing around onstage quite so much.
5/14/2026: Can Photonics Make the AI Data Center Boom More Palatable?, PCMag
Since my research for this started at NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in mid April, I was happy I finally got this written–including quotes from my interview of the photonics firm Taara’s CEO at Web Summit Vancouver that helped this post be about more than just the expenses-comped NTT event. I was not so happy to discover that I left two errors into the copy, one about the distances that Taara’s silicon-photonics chipset can send data through the air and another about this firm’s spot in the extended Google corporate universe.
5/15/2026: Bill Gross thinks AI companies are running out of ways to avoid paying creators, Fast Company
This is the first time in a long time–maybe ever, actually–where I wrote a story from an interview as an edited transcript instead of writing a more-structured piece with selected quotes plugged in where I saw fit. I enjoyed the challenge of finding the most enlightening exchanges about the longtime Silicon Valley founder and investor’s new venture ProRata and the state of AI in general out of 6,000-plus words of AI-generated transcript from my phone’s Google Recorder app (which I then checked by playing back the original recording).
#Android17 #BillGross #BlackForestLabs #FrontierCollective #GeminiIntelligence #GoogleIO #IOWN #MiFi #MountainView #NTTResearch #photonics #ProRata #SanJose #Taara #TechEx #Telus #Vancouver #WebSummitVancouver #WiFiHotspot #Wirecutter -
AI data centre project will help build ‘soveriegn’ computing, minister says
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Finally cancelled our Telus “Home Security" plan. We have our own webcams that are nicer anyway and fully controlled by us for free. Versus their cloud system for $21/mo (actually $41/mo but we had -20 in discounts promotions)
We had originally got it on a bundle or something...
Just have to remove the Telus camera from our outside area and pack it up to send back. They threaten to charge you $100 if you don’t send it back by their 'deadline’.
Customer Service. It's a thing...
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I haven't actually seen a total on bandwidth used on my home network through my ISP for quite awhile.
9.073TB is a fair bit. lol.
tbf: that includes three webcams streaming 24/7 and other image transfers happening regularly.
Hooray for free/discounted unlimited bandwidth.