TELUS kept us busy last year with regular expansion of its 4G LTE network across Canada. 2014 looks like it will be no different. Just weeks into the year, TELUS today announced that Midland and Penetanguishene in Ontario are the latest communities to get coverage.
“Our customers in Midland and Penetanguishene are now among the more than 28 million Canadians who enjoy access to the world’s fastest wireless technology from TELUS,” said Darryl Hutton, TELUS director of sales. “TELUS will continue to invest in expanding our network across Ontario to bring LTE to even more communities, part of our drive to put customers first in everything we do.”
While TELUS has stopped calling out average download speeds in its press releases, customers can expect to see speeds between 12 to 25Mbps on average with an LTE device.
TELUS offers a wide range of LTE smartphones including devices such as the Google Nexus 5, BlackBerry Z30, Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Samsung Galaxy S4. It also offers other devices, including tablets such as the Samsung GALAXY Note 8 and data sticks like the Huawei E3276 4G LTE Mobile Internet Key.
The TELUS LTE network now covers 80 percent of Canada’s population across approximately 260 markets.
TELUS brings world’s fastest wireless technology to Midland and Penetanguishene
Midland, ON – TELUS has brought the world’s fastest and most advanced wireless technology to Midland and Penetanguishene. This expansion of TELUS’ 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) service to these communities means residents can take advantage of dramatically faster wireless Internet speeds when surfing the web, reading emails, listening to music, watching videos, or using social media sites on an LTE-enabled smartphone or wireless device.
TELUS’ 4G LTE service, which offers customers wireless data (upload and download) speeds two to three times faster than previous technology, now covers 80 per cent of Canada’s population across 260 communities.
“Our customers in Midland and Penetanguishene are now among the more than 28 million Canadians who enjoy access to the world’s fastest wireless technology from TELUS,” said Darryl Hutton, TELUS director of sales. “TELUS will continue to invest in expanding our network across Ontario to bring LTE to even more communities, part of our drive to put customers first in everything we do.”
4G LTE is the new standard for wireless technology around the world, with most new handsets built to take advantage of its superior speed, including the recently-launched BlackBerry Q5, BlackBerry Z30, Nokia Lumia 1020, Samsung GALAXY Mega, and Samsung GS4 and GS3 Minis.
For more information on TELUS 4G LTE please visit: telusmobility.com/4GLTE or check out TELUS’ coverage map at: telusmobility.com/coverage.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $11.3 billion of annual revenue and 13.3 million customer connections, including 7.8 million wireless subscribers, 3.3 million wireline network access lines, 1.4 million Internet subscribers and 776,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed more than $300 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Fourteen TELUS Community Boards lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.