The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and TELUS announced a five-year partnership to transform the campus into a 5G-connected innovation hub. TELUS is investing $6 million to enable 5G technology across uOttawa's multiple campuses to accelerate cutting-edge research and innovation in the heart of nation's capital. This collaboration will not only fuel multidisciplinary research to advance global health and life-saving diagnostics and treatments and cyber security, but will also transform uOttawa campuses and enrich the student experience through new curriculums and teaching methods as students participate in cutting-edge research leveraging the power of 5G.

TELUS and uOttawa are also working on extending the partnership to include two on-campus 5G research labs that will contribute to cutting-edge research in new technologies such as applications to monitor patient health, smartphone applications for mobile monitoring, digital health systems, the detection of cyberthreats and cyberattacks in real-time, and connected vehicular data to perform real-time analytics of traffic patterns, hazardous road conditions and sudden weather events. This partnership builds on previous commitments made by both TELUS and uOttawa to fuel big ideas and strengthen cooperation among the brightest minds from tech businesses and students in the National Capital Region. Last summer, TELUS became the 5G Anchor Partner of the Kanata North Business Association's HUB350, just a few doors down from the University's Kanata-North campus in the Innovation Zone of Canada's largest Technology Hub.