Telus outages and service status in Smithers, British Columbia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smithers, British Columbia

The chart below shows the number of Telus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smithers, British Columbia 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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  FraserValleyToday.ca (@chwknews) reported 3 minutes ago

  @_northwords I'm in the Sardis Library right now on 5G, with Telus no less, and I can't watch a 30-second basketball clip. I know, first world problems, but I can't access work mail in the Community Forest area. Whereas my wife had cell coverage atop Kilimanjaro and in rural China.

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  theredlion (@thered_lataleph) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TELUS Don't get involved with this company. They are the worst for customer service. They have apps that don't work and if you ask for a paper bill you get zero information on it. Then you try to leave them and they harass you and charge you hundreds of dollars. Think illegal

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  pinkiepie (@pinkiepie111) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Ayan604 @TELUS @TELUSsupport Damn! Makes me wish I didn’t decline the call I got from them yesterday lol

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  Tony (@intrepidudon) reported 9 minutes ago

  @PsudoMike Seems like a big bath. Telus just bought back Telus digital after spinning it out. New ceo taking a big write down so big bonuses and results later on. Lower expectations, outperform.

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  Alex Maclean (@canmaclean42) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TaraArmstrongBC The bean counters and Wildfire operations are married but sleep in different rooms. The ministry is actually one of the poorer agencies of the government and sort of like the US marines there is rarely all the equipment and personell one wants but generally people are gung ho and will always make do. There are some internal skirmishes and rivalries like contract vs ministry firefighters, or between crews but generally it's friendly and all in all BC has one of the most professional and world class wildfire suppression systems. I can say that because I've been doing it for 10 years and have worked with firefighters from a dozen countries and half the provinces and territories. When it comes to finances it's a different world. For example some idiot thought it would be a great idea for Telus (the phone company) to do the ministries payroll, a universally hated arrangement by crews. After all on a slow year there are a thousand firefighters sitting around on base or doing make work projects on the governments dime. Why bother with additional funding, it doesn't buy votes. On a hot year one does what can be done with resources available until a state of emergency is declared and then the money rolls in and the millions flow. Probably costing considerably more than if sufficient crews and equipment were allocated in the first place. I'm not in management but the solution is probably in training and maintaining an additional 1000 ministry firefighters, expansion of the Para program, a few additional air assets and properly funding the type 2 and type 3 contract resources instead of a chronic loss of professional firefighters leaving the profession because there is no work or incentive to stay on a slow year. On a forest management perspective perhaps allowing green belts (natural fire breaks) to grow instead of spraying glyphosate (dries out the forest) for profit, or hiring enough Rangers to police the logging companies to get them to actually stay in line and manage the forests the way they pretend they do. Current logging practice drops water tables. But that's a conversation nobody wants to have

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  LET GO Habs (@habby44) reported 12 minutes ago

  Man @TELUS sucks for cable or internet trying to get answers on why your bill jumped $50 for no changes. They are like the friend you lent a $100 and can’t get a hold of!!!!

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  Mike Brennan (@MikeBre58407055) reported 15 minutes ago

  @MPelletierCIO If she was managing my money, I would redeem my investment. I'm guessing she isn't an actual Telus customer, so is clueless. The problem is the hideous customer service, they would be better if nobody picked up the phone. I cancelled my cable, took weeks.

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  TELUS Support (@TELUSsupport) reported 15 minutes ago

  @zulutruckeryyc Apologies, and that's definitely not the experience you should be having with your TELUS PureFibre service. To clarify, your internet services are no longer working?

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  Lerick (@LerikLord) reported 24 minutes ago

  @jamajama711 @MkoTheComedian Can you help me with Telus

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  Bonnie & Stephen (@bonnewillbonne) reported 26 minutes ago

  @MeaghieC Pharmacists can do emergency refills in BC. Hopefully you will have some luck with Telus or another telehealth provider. Or show up at an urgent care clinic. Not sure where you live, but the one in Chemainus BC is really good.