{"id":513852,"date":"2026-03-04T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:10:12","slug":"telus-announces-new-satellite-service-partnership-with-ast-spacemobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513852\/","title":{"rendered":"Telus announces new satellite service partnership with AST SpaceMobile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">VANCOUVER \u2014 Telus Corp. says it has partnered with U.S.-based AST SpaceMobile Inc. in a deal that will bring about satellite-powered services to its customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">As part of the deal, the Vancouver-based telecommunications firm will invest in ground-based satellite infrastructure and become a shareholder of AST SpaceMobile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Telus did not specify what its investment would total or what its stake in AST SpaceMobile would amount to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Nazim Benhadid, the chief technology officer at Telus, says the move will help eliminate connectivity gaps across Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Telus says it is planning for customers to be able to use the satellite service beginning later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In February, Telus announced its CEO Darren Entwistle will retire at the end of June and be succeeded by former CIBC chief executive Victor Dodig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Companies in this story: (TSX:T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Telus Corp. says it has partnered with U.S.-based AST SpaceMobile Inc. in a deal that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[33975,49,48,203706,203708,66,306,203707,12802],"class_list":["post-513852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ast-spacemobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-satellite-infrastructure","tag-satellite-service","tag-science","tag-space","tag-telecommunications-firm","tag-telus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}