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Home > About Us > News Room > News Releases > TELUS Renews TRLabs Membership TELUS Renews TRLabs Membership
November 09, 2007 -- Edmonton - TELUS has announced a five-year membership renewal in TRLabs, Canada's largest information and communications technology (ICT) research and development consortium.
"TELUS has chosen to work with TRLabs for the past two decades and into the future as they have proven an excellent partner in TELUS' continuing pursuit of innovation," said Jim Slevinsky, TELUS director of Applications Architecture. "Through working with TRLabs, TELUS has been able to tap into the extensive knowledge and expertise housed in the leading research and development organization."
"We're pleased to be in a position to continue to build on TRLabs' extraordinary 20-year partnership with TELUS," said TRLabs President and CEO Dr. Roger Pederson. "Our relationship with TELUS pre-dates mass consumer adoption of the cell phone and the Internet, and together we have contributed to their emergence as a social and economic dynamo."
TRLabs has made several operational adjustments to strengthen its value to industry members as a source of skilled graduates and innovation, including a re-focusing of the research program around vertical market opportunities of growing interest to industry, adoption of a more flexible membership structure, creation of subscribed research and development activity for shorter term initiatives, amendments to intellectual property policy to deliver a full service innovation menu to industry, and doubling of graduate student scholarship values to nurture attraction of the best and the brightest to TRLabs.
TELUS has benefited from the knowledge gained from TRLabs research results on 10 projects, and has hired 28 TRLabs alumni. TELUS also has significant personnel ties with TRLabs, including TRLabs President and CEO Dr. Roger Pederson who is a TELUS secondment, and TRLabs VP Research Dr. Rainer Iraschko who joined TRLabs in 2007 after a three-year tenure at TELUS as an Optical Networking Strategist.
About TRLabs
TRLabs fast tracks innovation to market by creating innovative technologies, training students, and working with its partners to accelerate technology commercialization. Labs in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, and Winnipeg employ 200. With 58 partner members representing a unique synergy of industry, government, and university, technology and applications research focuses on three research themes: Connected Media; eHealth; and eHome. In its 21-year existence, TRLabs has trained 865 highly skilled university graduates, created 330 technologies adopted for use by companies, and generated 95 patents issued or filed.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.0 billion of annual revenue and 11.0 million customer connections including 5.4 million wireless subscribers, 4.4 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. Committed to being Canada's premier corporate citizen, we give where we live. Since 2000, TELUS and our team members have contributed more than $91 million to charitable and non-profit organizations and volunteered more than 1.7 million hours of service to local communities. Eight TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.