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Telus Optik TV is a product of Telus Communications, a subsidiary of
Telus Corporation Telus Corporation (also shortened and referred to as ''Telus Corp.'') is a Canadian multinational publicly traded holding company and conglomerate, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, which is the parent company of subsidiaries— Telus Communicat ...
, that provides
IPTV Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. Unlike downloaded med ...
service in the Canadian provinces of
British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, for ...
,
Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest T ...
, and
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...
. The service offers over 630 digital channels, including more than 100 in HD. Despite its name, the service is available to both Fibre To The Node (FTTN) or Fibre To The Home (FTTH) clients, with FTTN implementations using
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s instead of fibre optics for a portion of the connection. Telus launched IPTV service in November 2005 to customers in select Alberta communities. As of February 2017, over 1 million customers are subscribed to the Optik TV. Major competitors include satellite services Shaw Direct and Bell Satellite TV, as well as various cable and communications companies across British Columbia and Alberta, such as
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, Novus and Eastlink.


Other television services


Pik TV

Telus Pik TV is an
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service that offers live TV and on demand video from 125 television networks. Pik TV is available as an add-on to residential Telus Internet customers. The service is named after the pick-and-pay television model, where customers purchase channels ''
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''. The service is available at two pricing points: * Basic includes up to 23 standard channels, plus the core Crave service or five free ''à la carte'' TV channels. * Pik Max includes up to 23 standard channels, plus Crave, ten free ''à la carte'' TV channels, three
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channels and five TSN channels. Pik Max promotions may offer the
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 4K on contract. Pik TV service is available on iPhone,
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,
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,
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, Android, and web browsers.


Satellite TV

From June 2009 to April 2018, Telus resold BCE's satellite Bell Satellite TV service in parts of Alberta and British Columbia as Telus Satellite TV. The agreement was designed to allow Telus the ability to offer a quadruple play of services in markets where it had not yet deployed Optik TV, while also allowing Bell to increase its television market share in Western Canada. The Telus-branded service co-exists with the Bell-branded version of Bell TV, which is still offered in the markets that Telus Satellite TV is offered. With the resale agreement ending March 31, 2018, Telus continues to support existing subscribers, but no longer accepts new ones.


Telus Presents

Telus Presents is a collection of, as described by Telus, "hard-to-find" international programs available
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at no additional charge to Optik TV and Pik TV subscribers in Alberta and B.C., introduced in October 2020. Programs available as part of the collection include '' I Hate Suzie'' and '' The Newsreader''.


See also

* Telus


References


External links


Official Telus Optik TV website

Official Telus Satellite TV website

Telus Quebec
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