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After 14 years, Telus Corp. CEO Darren Entwistle
announced his departure from the province's biggest com-
pany in 2013, having overseen perhaps the most significant
corporate overhaul in the province's history, as an amalgam
of telephone utilities became a national wireless giant.
Forty days after taking the helm at Telus in 2000, Entwis-
tle oversaw the biggest acquisition in Canadian telecommu-
nications history, with the $6.6-billion purchase of wireless
provider Clearnet Communications. With the acquisition,
the company emerged as a western competitor to the behe-
moth Bell, based in Quebec.
End of the Entwistle Era
The head of the province's
biggest company stepped
down in 2013, having remade
the former sleepy utility into a
pioneering pure-play telecom
b y j a c o b p a r r y
t E c h & S c i E n c E
steadfast
leader Darren
Entwistle led Telus
through 14 years of
highs and lows.
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