Telus outages and service status in Calling Lake, Alberta

Problems in the last 24 hours in Calling Lake, Alberta

The chart below shows the number of Telus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Calling Lake, Alberta and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Telus Issues Reports

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  Jon Cowley | Decision Tech + AI Founder (@whatifi_io) reported 11 minutes ago

  I don't think @TELUS @TELUSsupport realizes how much their constant sales/slop support phone calls are destroying their business brand. I just got a call from one of their reps overseas asking me for feedback, even after I filled out a monstrous feedback form yesterday online. After I had previously told multiple TELUS reps that I was only a customer because I am trying to shut down my father's accounts after his passing and to stop calling me and trying to sell me new services, given my situation. When I tried to explain this to the person who just called, they made a bunch of inappropriate and juvenile sounds and then hung up on me. There is zero chance that I would move any of my services to TELUS at this stage. This is the hidden cost of outsourcing sales and support and making every phone call into a pseudo sales call. I still have several services to wind down with Telus on my parents behalf - home security, internet, home phone - an I cringe thinking about how much time I will spend on the phone and the quality of those upcoming experiences.

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  BlueCrabGames (@BlueCrabGaming) reported 13 minutes ago

  @globeandmail Doesnt matter when 95% of in person storefront enployees are also thick accent indians who scam the customer every chance they get, to increase their commission. Oh and 100% of the csa on the phone are indians. Even when a Telus employee has to call into their special emplyee only line, its all indians. I quit Telus/koodo explicitly because of the indians, one in particular that was a district manager and the most scum snake oil salesmen person i'd ever met.

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  world_citizen (@worldcitizenOG) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CoJoHendo @sitkamedia @JarrydJaeger Misinformed comment. You've probably never heard of the Telus Garden office

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  Heldy (@HeldyCarvalho) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Shawhelp Thanks. I have been trying to use the chat since 9AM. The auto log out feature every 10 minutes is brutal when you have to hold for support for at least hours. The only reason I stayed with Shaw is because you have had better support than Telus, historically.

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  T Saunders (@TSaundersql) reported 17 minutes ago

  @mario4thenorth Telus, can’t Telus anything. That’s been my slogan for them for the last 15-20 yrs, after they tried lying to me on what an issue was with my service.

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  TastyGizmo (@tastygizmo) reported 18 minutes ago

  Never in my wildest dreams did I envision scam baiter (Kitboga) tactics to be used by Telus to scam us.

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  I Love Myself ~~ Pooja (@poojabnf) reported 21 minutes ago

  Breaking this down so it makes sense: BREAKING: Telus and feds to build big AI data centres in B.C. 1/

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  c • she (@indicarys) reported 24 minutes ago

  vancouver/lowermainland-ites. what ******** are we gonna do about these ridiculous data centers that telus is planning to rely on bchydro for

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  Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) reported 26 minutes ago

  I am the Director of Voice Experience Innovation at Telus International. Six months ago, my team deployed a real-time accent harmonization layer across our Southeast Asian call centers. The agent speaks. The system listens. The customer hears Ohio. I keep a demo reel on my laptop. Before and after. The before sounds like a woman in Manila who went to university in Quezon City and has been resolving billing disputes for nine years. The after sounds like a woman who might be in a strip mall in Columbus. Same words. Same syntax. Same problem-solving. The only thing we change is the part that makes the customer hang up. The metrics are on slide eleven of my board deck. I'm looking at it right now: Customer satisfaction: up 23 percent. Average handle time: down 40 seconds. Escalation requests: down 31 percent. My VP asked what drove the improvement. I said, "Reduced communication friction." Which is technically true. The friction was that our customers don't like talking to people who sound foreign. We didn't fix that. We made it so they never have to know. The system processes voice in 11-millisecond intervals. It maps phonemic patterns to General American English midpoint targets. Internally we call these targets "anchor voices." The anchor voices were generated from 4,000 hours of NPR pledge drive recordings. We picked NPR specifically because listener studies show it's the accent American consumers trust most with their credit card number. (The agent hears themselves the whole time. Their own voice in their own headset. They just know that somewhere in those 11 milliseconds, a machine decides that what they actually sound like isn't something a customer in Phoenix will tolerate for the length of a billing inquiry.) Employee 7734 in our Manila hub asked to hear the output. We played it for her in a breakout room — the one with the motivational poster about "Bringing Your Whole Self to Work." She listened for six seconds. Pulled her headset down around her neck. Went quiet. Then she said, "Is that what they need me to be?" Her CSAT scores are in the 94th percentile. She clocks in every morning at 7:45. I should explain the economics because they're elegant: we hired agents in the Philippines at $4 an hour. We spent $11 million on a system that makes them sound like they cost $35 an hour. The delta is the product. We don't sell accent correction. We sell the gap between what a worker costs and what a customer requires them to sound like. The system doesn't work in reverse. If a customer with a heavy accent calls in, we don't smooth their voice for our agents. Harmonization flows one direction. Toward the customer. Away from the worker. Always uphill. Three agents requested transfers to text-based channels last quarter. They said they felt "disconnected from their own calls." My HR partner coded it as an engagement issue. Recommended a team outing. Bowling, I think. Every morning, 14,000 agents open their mouths and a machine makes a decision about what comes out the other end. They perform the labor. We perform the correction. The customer performs their preference. Nobody performs anything wrong.

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  Mark Topham (@MarkTopham83949) reported 29 minutes ago

  @TELUS the level of disgust I feel over your handling of the lawsuit regarding 911 and Dean Switzer death was easily sufficient for me to terminate my account.