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as a holding company to facilitate the transfer. In 1991, the province of Alberta sold its remaining ownership interest in AGT to Telus for $ 870 million. Telus acquired Edmonton Telephones Corporation (Ed Tel) from the city of Edmonton in 1995; Ed Tel had been created only five years earlier from a
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Alberta Government Telephones was directly managed by the province's Department of Public Works as a public utility until 1958, when it was transformed into the
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In 1969, AGT built what was then Edmonton's tallest skyscraper as its new headquarters, joined by a second tower in 1971 - together known today as
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reorganization of a department of the city. In 1996, the AGT and Ed Tel brands were retired in favour of the Telus name. Telus merged with
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in 1906 following the acquisitions by the government of several independent telephone companies. In 1908, AGT acquired the
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675,000. It eventually served almost all telephone customers in Alberta outside of the
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area, where telephone service was operated by the Edmonton municipal government.
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Deregulating Telecommunications: U.S. and Canadian Telecommunications, 1840-1997
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Calgary, Canada's frontier metropolis : an illustrated history
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of the Progressive Conservative Party, began the process of
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Telecommunications companies disestablished in 1991
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Telecommunications
Telus
Edmonton
telephone
Alberta
Liberal
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Bell Telephone Company
$
Edmonton
crown corporation
CKUA
ATB Place
Don Getty
privatizing
Telus Communications
BC Tel


Deregulating Telecommunications: U.S. and Canadian Telecommunications, 1840-1997
ISBN
0-8476-9825-4


"Alberta Government Telephones"



Telus Company History

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