Telus Communications Inc

TELUS COMMUNICATIONS INC was created in 1998 from a merger of BC Telecom, owner of BC Tel, then Canada's second-largest telephone company, and Telus Corp, an Alberta telephone company. The objective of the merger was to create a firm large enough to compete with Bell Canada, the country's largest phone company. The new company, based in BURNABY, had revenues of $8 billion in 2005 and is one of the largest private-sector employers in BC.

Following the patenting of the telephone in 1876, its use...

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