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TELUS Investing $1 Billion Through 2019 to Extend Advanced Communications Infrastructure Across Ontario

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 04/11/16 — TELUS intends to invest $1 billion in new communications infrastructure across Ontario through 2019. This year alone, TELUS will invest $245 million in the province to enhance the speed, capacity and coverage of its wireless networks in both rural and urban communities, provide critical fibre optic connections to business clients, and further enhance its innovative offerings for Ontario businesses and healthcare providers.

“By the end of 2019, TELUS will have invested more than $45 billion to provide Ontario citizens businesses, healthcare providers and educators with access to critical next-generation health, education, business and government services and solutions,” said Darren Entwistle, TELUS President and CEO. “The TELUS team is dedicated to helping advance Ontario–s economy by expanding the world–s fastest wireless technologies to more communities across the province, enabling businesses to compete on a local, national and global basis.”

TELUS has also paid and remitted $2.2 billion in sales, income, property and other taxes in Ontario since 2000. More importantly, in support of the company–s philosophy to give where we live, TELUS and its more than 8,000 team members and retirees in Ontario have contributed more than $80 million and 540,000 volunteer hours to charitable and community organizations throughout Ontario since 2000.

TELUS– infrastructure and technology investments will advance services for the benefit of all Ontarians. In Ontario, TELUS is:

The investments announced in this media release were reflected in TELUS– capital expenditure guidance for 2016, which was issued on February 12, 2016.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T)(NYSE: TU) is Canada–s fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $12.5 billion of annual revenue and 12.5 million customer connections, including 8.5 million wireless subscribers, 1.5 million residential network access lines, 1.6 million high-speed Internet subscribers and 1.0 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada–s largest healthcare IT provider.

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TELUS in Ontario:

TELUS is planning to invest more than $1 billion in new infrastructure and facilities across Ontario over the next four years. By the end of 2019 TELUS expects to have invested more than $45 billion in Ontario since 2000 to extend the reach of advanced wireless and wireline telecommunications infrastructure throughout the province. The TELUS Health team is leveraging technology innovation to deliver better health outcomes for Ontarians as the province–s leading provider of electronic medical records for physicians and as a partner of the Ontario government in supporting electronic health records across the Greater Toronto Area.

In support of the company–s philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, team members and retirees have contributed more than $80 million and 540,000 volunteer hours to charitable and community organizations throughout Ontario since 2000. Created in 2005 by President and CEO Darren Entwistle, TELUS has 15 local community boards dedicated to supporting local projects. The two Ontario community boards in Ontario have donated more than $12.4 million in support of more than 820 local charitable projects since inception, in partnership with regional TELUS Community Action Teams.

Forward-looking statement:

This news release contains statements about expected future events, including TELUS– projected multi-year capital and operating expenditures that are forward-looking. The investments described for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 are subject to the ongoing review and approval of TELUS– Board of Directors. By their nature, forward-looking statements require the Company to make assumptions and predictions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. There is significant risk that the forward-looking statements will not prove to be accurate. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a number of factors (such as regulatory and government decisions, the competitive environment, economic conditions, our ability to purchase spectrum licences through auctions or third parties, and our earnings, free cash flow and financial position) could cause actual capital and operating expenditures to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, this news release is subject to the disclaimer and qualified by the assumptions (including the assumptions for our 2016 annual guidance, semi-annual dividend increases through 2016, ability to sustain and complete our multi-year share purchase program through 2016), qualifications and risk factors referred to in the 2015 Management–s Discussion and Analysis for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, which are specifically incorporated by reference herein, and in other TELUS public disclosure documents and filings with securities commissions in Canada (on SEDAR at sedar.com) and in the United States (on EDGAR at sec.gov). Except as required by law, TELUS disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements.

Contacts:
Luiza Staniec
TELUS Media Relations
514-619-3600

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