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Four Quebec school boards select TELUS as their technology partner of choice5 February 2005
TELUS, Canada's IP technology
leader, continues to make significant inroads in the field of education in
Quebec with the recent signing of four agreements with school boards in the
Greater Montreal and Quebec City areas. The total value of the agreements
exceeds $3 million, and TELUS now serves more than 30 of the provinces 72
educational institutions.
The contracts call for deployment of a number of state-of-the-art
communications and network solutions including IP telephony, dedicated fibre-
optic links, voice messaging systems, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and
enhanced call centre functions. School boards will benefit from enhanced
quality and flexibility of their data and voice transmissions as well as
achieve significant cost savings.
In Quebec City TELUS signed a contract with the Commission scolaire de la
Capitale, the region's largest school board. The board serves 30,000 students
in 72 facilities throughout the Quebec City area.
In the Greater Montreal area, TELUS has finalized agreements with the
Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Ile, the Lester B. Pearson School Board
and the Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Iles.
The Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Ile contract calls for TELUS to
replace the existing voice system including 500 business lines and ensure the
maintenance of the board's entire telecommunications network for its 73
schools.
TELUS will modernize the Lester B. Pearson School Board's Administrative
Centre's telecommunication network and supply state-of-the-art IP telephone
systems for the board's 62 schools. Long distance service will be routed on
TELUS' Next Generation Network (NGN), based on IP protocol infrastructure.
The agreement with the Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-
Iles, of Saint-Eustache, calls for TELUS to replace the board's existing
telephone system with an IP-based network. TELUS will also supply a dedicated
fibre-optic Internet access link as well as local and long-distance service.
The school board has 85 facilities serving 42,000 students.
"It is essential that schools and school boards are equipped with the
best available communications solutions so they are better able to fulfill
their role of preparing our young people for the future," said Yves Salvail,
TELUS Vice President, Government and Public Sector Markets. "We are very
pleased these four school boards have joined a growing family of public sector
organizations that have partnered with TELUS to take advantage of the latest
in data, IP and voice solutions."
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.NV; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company
in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, with $7.5 billion of
annual revenue, 4.8 million network access lines and 3.8 million wireless
customers. The company provides customers with a full range of
telecommunications products and services including data, voice and wireless
services across Canada, utilizing next generation Internet-based technologies.
For more information about TELUS, please visit www.telus.com .
Source: Canada NewsWire
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