Apple poaches Telus executive to manage Canadian sales operations
Apple added new blood to its Canadian management team in February with the hire of Brent Johnston, a longtime Telus executive who handled the regional telco's consumer segment.
According to his recently updated LinkedIn profile, Johnston left Telus after an almost 11-year stint at the company to take on the position of Senior Managing Director at Apple Canada.
Canadian blog MobileSyrup, which reported on the recent hire earlier today, said Johnston will be managing Apple's sales department after performing similar duties at Telus. The executive has more than a decade of experience under his belt after serving as the phone provider's VP of Mobility Solutions and, most recently, SVP of Consumer Marketing.
Canada is a major contributor to Apple's North American revenue and is consistently one of the first countries to be included in popular device launches like iPhone. Unlike its neighbor to the south, however, Apple Canada is sometimes slow to adopt new services due to industry and government regulations. For example, Apple Pay went live in Canada last November, more than a year after the mobile payments solution debuted in the U.S.. Even after months of availability, Canadian Apple Pay users are still limited to certain American Express cards.
According to his recently updated LinkedIn profile, Johnston left Telus after an almost 11-year stint at the company to take on the position of Senior Managing Director at Apple Canada.
Canadian blog MobileSyrup, which reported on the recent hire earlier today, said Johnston will be managing Apple's sales department after performing similar duties at Telus. The executive has more than a decade of experience under his belt after serving as the phone provider's VP of Mobility Solutions and, most recently, SVP of Consumer Marketing.
Canada is a major contributor to Apple's North American revenue and is consistently one of the first countries to be included in popular device launches like iPhone. Unlike its neighbor to the south, however, Apple Canada is sometimes slow to adopt new services due to industry and government regulations. For example, Apple Pay went live in Canada last November, more than a year after the mobile payments solution debuted in the U.S.. Even after months of availability, Canadian Apple Pay users are still limited to certain American Express cards.
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When Visa & M/C are available in Canada via ApplePay I would say they will have a better saturation. Filtering down ONLY iphone 6 & 6s users, AND who have Amex, AND who use it where tap terminals are installed/available makes for a small number. So yes it does exist, but not as it does in other countries https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204916
I asked our finance dept to give me an average day transactions (just average day in mid January requesting no other statistical data as to retain only overall stats ): visa 2748 transactions per hour, M/C 2573 transactions per hour, debit 1822 transactions per hour, cash 1018 transactions per hour, Amex 113 transactions per hour. This is a national chain with national coverage 40% in central Canada, remainder spread throughout the rest of Canada. I am not convinced the banks are too threatened by Amex anymore.
my wife's iPhone 5 doesn't have NFC for apple pay but can use passbook for refill cards etc,BUT if she needs an apple watch just to use the function with only 1 card, ya she won't bother.
Everyone in our office has a 6 or 6s variant & honesty hope Apple Pay starts to migrate into other pay vendors, we love the idea.
i have also asked our bank and they "like the idea and are still testing" which I think is a lame excuse, why are we so behind the states in this stuff. Moreover a bank managers opinion is WAY down the list of the corporate office directive, it's far above his position where the actual decision will be made.
Heres to hoping we have more choice available, heck China even has more than us & they are a communist regime.
anyway, we digress. Good luck to the ex Telus exec now at apple Canada.