TELUS announced the appointment of Joe Natale as President and CEO of TELUS. Natale joined TELUS in 2003 as an executive vice president and has progressed through increasingly expansive roles, including President of TELUS Business Solutions and President of TELUS Consumer Solutions. Since 2010, Mr. Natale has served as TELUS’ Chief Commercial Officer.
TELUS also announced that Brian Canfield will retire following 58 years of exemplary service with TELUS and BC TEL. Mr. Canfield has served as TELUS’ non-executive Chair since 1999, upon completion of the merger of BC TEL and TELUS.
Darren Entwistle has been appointed Executive Chair of TELUS.
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You just read about TELUS. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Clearnet Communications built Canadian national digital mobile and wireless-data operator. What became of it?
Clearnet Communications brought Canadian national digital mobile and wireless-data operator to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by TELUS for $6.6B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside TELUS today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
