Canadian telco Telus put its head above the parapet at the FutureNet World conference last week, to give a keynote speech on the fabled transition from ‘telco to techco.’ Telus, like the other large Canadian operators, needs new sources of income, and highlighted healthcare and agriculture as opportunities for growth. Investor sentiment in Telus, BCE, and Rogers has fallen off a cliff since 2022, when interest rates started to rise and stock market investors moved their focus to more fruitful investments. Since April 2022, Telus shares dropped steadily by a total of 37%, while BCE fell 38%, and Rogers fell 26%. Alongside the impact of interest rate rises, Telus must find revenues in a sector of increasingly tepid growth –…