Telus is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, voice, entertainment and video.
The company is based in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Telus Communications Alberta was created in 1990 by the government of Alberta as a holding company in order to facilitate the privatization of a crown corporation.
In 1995, it acquired Edmonton Telephones from the City of Edmonton making Telus the owner of all telephone service in the province. In 1996, Telus was introduced to the public as the consumer brand, replacing AGT and EdTel.
In 1999, Telus Corporation was created by the merger of Telus Alberta and BCTel with the new entity retaining the Telus name. As a result of the merger Telus became Canada second largest telcom of market share compared to Bell Canada
In the 1999 2000 period Telus acquired through merger the high performing Clearnet Communications, a cellular company that was based in Scarborough Toronto Ontario, which gave it foothold in the highly competitive central Canadian market.
The company had its origins in nearby Pickering and was by 1997 outperforming the other Toronto Ontario based cellular companies through its easily accessible product the actual phone sold in various stores and its high tech marketing strategy of its time, that emphasized uncluttered simplicity and a bright future outlook through its nature and animals motifs.
In 2008, Telus discontinued its analog mobility phone network due to the lack of available parts for the equipment. A Telus spokesperson said they believed they were the last major mobility carrier to do so.
Telus has offered a cost sharing arrangement to bring landlines to customers who are affected by the analog network shutdown in rural areas as digital signals do not work as well as analog ones in such areas.
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