Telus outages and service status in Farnham, Quebec

Problems in the last 24 hours in Farnham, Quebec

The chart below shows the number of Telus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Farnham, Quebec 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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  John (@BigDaddyFrom3) reported 8 minutes ago

  @BoVanston @PeterMeiszner @TELUS Yes that would literally help if everyone did it?

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  Jojo (@jojojojojobz) reported 10 minutes ago

  @EvanLSolomon Zero qualifications to handle AI and digital innovation. Wtf does a broadcaster know about LLMs? ******* gong show of a government. Tell us taxpayers how much kickback from Telus you are going to get.

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  Andre (@canandre12) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ShaziGoalie AI is being used right now, to hide the Indian accent in Telus’ customer service agent’s voices

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  hecate_strait ᔪᐊᑎ (@StraitHecate) reported 17 minutes ago

  @MarkJCarney Hooray for Telus building stuff but my concern here is that we're about to see another multi billion dollar pile of taxpayer money evaporate, just like with the EV battery mess. If the gov can limit itself to policy support, great. But lots of strikes so far leave me skeptical.

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  Mike Was Right 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽 (@MikeHumanIntel) reported 19 minutes ago

  @mario4thenorth If I call Rogers or Telus, it takes 90 minutes on hold to talk to some foreigner who will likely not resolve my problem. When I call Mint Mobile in the US, I go through a very friendly Ryan Reynolds AI attendant and talk to an American right away. Plus, they understand and resolve my problem. Canadians have no clue how bad it has become for them.

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  Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) reported 20 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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  Millennials for Democracy (@millennials4_wp) reported 20 minutes ago

  @caroltreardon @bcndp Telus is the first corp. I realized was completely unethical in Canada. We STILL need to go after corps like this. It absolutely should die off- & they sure as s*it shouldn’t have access to anyone’s medical records… 🙄😒🤔👀 Never mind any further public trust from ppl.

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  Reece Martin (@RM_Transit) reported 21 minutes ago

  How is AI policy going in Canada? Well *Telus* is going to be building a huge data center in DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER (how is this even slightly compelling) and needs federal government help . . . We are in trouble. . .

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  heiba9866 (@heiba986627073) reported 27 minutes ago

  @KaileaandTim @WestJet Westjet wanted cheap labor they got it. The agents in Telus El Salvador have a mediocre English level, they can't even understand a spelling, they work with "scripts" unnatural customer service, then they grow after 1 month of training without any experience in airlines at all

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  Dallas (@Dallas777) reported 29 minutes ago

  @MommaHood2 @TELUS That and AI disguising their Indian voices on the phone...........like WTF??