December 11, 2003

TELUS becomes first Canadian ISP to offer legal digital music download service

Vancouver, B.C. - TELUS today announced it has become Canada's first Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer a legal music download service called Puretracks from TELUS. TELUS has launched this new service through a partnership with Moontaxi Media Inc., a leading North American online music distributor dedicated to delivering high quality music content in both streaming and download formats.

“TELUS is committed to introducing a wide selection of value-added entertainment services to our broadband customers,” says Mark Pezarro, vice president, Broadband Applications, TELUS. “This exciting new downloadable music service offers considerable new benefits to music lovers.”

Puretracks from TELUS has built an extensive music catalogue and will continually add new releases and backdated content:

• Each song costs $0.99 and entire albums costs only $9.99. (Prices may vary slightly.)
  
• Over 175,000 titles; download individual songs or entire albums
  
• Preview 30 second samples of every song before purchase
  
• Burn music to CDs or transfer to portable devices
  
• 196 Kbps better than CD quality downloads
  
• Legally licensed from the largest music labels in the industry
  
• Guaranteed virus-free files
  

Puretracks from TELUS offers customers an incredibly simple yet robust way to browse for music. Customers can:

• Discover new music and find personal favourites with ease
  
• Search the extensive catalogue by specific genre, album, artist, and song title
  
• Read through album descriptions, reviews, and notes highlighting the significance of the album to the career of the artist/group, most influential songs, and more
  
  Customers interested in accessing Puretracks from TELUS can visit www.telus.com/music or www.myTELUS.com.
  
  About TELUS
  TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, with over $7 billion of annual revenue, 4.9 million network access lines and 3.3 million wireless subscribers. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, voice and wireless services across Canada, utilizing next generation internet-protocol-based network technologies. TELUS was a premier founding supporter of the successful bid to bring the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to Canada.
  
  About Puretracks
  Puretracks is Canada's first and only digital music download service provider. With a rapidly growing catalogue of songs from all five major record labels and a growing list of Canadian and international independents, Puretracks allows music fans nationwide to search and download high quality Windows media-format digital music, from 99 cents a song. Puretracks was developed by Toronto-based Moontaxi Media www.moontaximedia.com, a leading North American online music distributor dedicated to delivering high quality music content in both streaming and download formats.
  
  

  For more information, please contact:
  Karen Dosanjh
  TELUS media relations
  (604) 697-8176
  karen.dosanjh@telus.com