TELUS TO DROP AGT NAME
By Adnews Staff
Alberta's telephone company, Telus Corp., is dropping AGT from the names of its subsidiaries. For the past 93 years, the letters have abbreviated the company's original name, Alberta Government Telephones. The move is being made to unite the company under a single brand name. AGT adopted the name Telus in 1990 after the province decided to sell shares in the Crown corporation to the public. AGT started operating in 1906, marking the first time a government got directly involved in the phone business in North America. The province began backing off from the business in 1958 when it established the Alberta Government Telephones Commission, which managed the system and became responsible for long-term financing.
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