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Grand Prairie, AB. – From February 8 until August 8, 2012, TELUS will give $25 to support the building of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum for every new customer signing up for TELUS Optik TV or activating a TELUS smartphone in Grande Prairie*.

“We are pleased and excited to have TELUS as a partner in this very special community project,” said Brian Brake, museum project executive director. “The TELUS contribution will help provide a legacy of culture, education and tourism in northwestern Alberta for future generations.”

The Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative was established to facilitate the creation of a world-class dinosaur museum near Wembley, Alberta, in 2013, called the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. The museum will be built in proximity to the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Bonebed, which is regarded as one of the most significant deposits of horned dinosaur fossils ever discovered.

Glen Lovas, TELUS director of customer solutions delivery for Grande Prairie said, “The TELUS team is excited to support the building of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum — and so are our kids!  Grande Prairie has such an amazing wealth of artifacts that contribute to our understanding of the early history of our planet, something we should all be proud of as members of this community. It’s exciting that every new customer who activates a TELUS smartphone on our 4G wireless network or subscribes to Optik TV can now also support this important project.”

Since 2000, TELUS, its team members and retirees have contributed more than $350,000 and volunteered 10,000 hours of service to Grande Prairie charities and community organizations.

TELUS offers Optik TV, powered by the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom, in Alberta and British Columbia communities. TELUS invested $1.3 billion in infrastructure in these two provinces throughout 2011 to increase Internet speeds, introduce Optik TV to more communities, and expand its advanced 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. Last year TELUS invested $6 million in Grande Prairie as part of the company’s planned $650 million infrastructure investment across Alberta.

This community campaign is available to all Grande Prairie residents who activate a TELUS smartphone or subscribe to Optik TV between February 8, 2012 and August 8, 2012. For more information, or to locate a TELUS store, please visit telusmobility.com or call 310-MYTV.

* Up to a maximum of $100,000 for smartphone activations and $70,000 for TELUS Optik TV subscriptions.

About The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum will preserve and display the unique fossils of northwestern Alberta and serve as a regional centre of excellence for tourism, science, heritage preservation and education. Major outcomes of the proposed cultural and scientific institution include enhanced economic and cultural development and increased knowledge of the Cretaceous geology that forms the bedrock of Alberta’s oil and gas industry. The museum, with a footprint of 41,000 square feet, will be located on a 10-acre site in the Town of Wembley, Alberta and adjacent to the Alaskan Highway. 

The facility will have a significant positive impact on the local area’s learning opportunities in the fields of culture, heritage and science, through its interactive displays, resident experts and curriculum-based educational programs. The museum will house two classrooms, a 64-seat theatre, restaurant with drive-thru service, gift shop, conference room, tourism visitor services, 12,000 square feet of interactive and interpretive displays, a scientific laboratory and fossil curatorial space, and a 120-vehicle parking lot.

About Optik TV

Optik TV provides never before seen functionality and features as well as more than 500 channels, including more than 100 in High Definition (HD). Optik TV is an IPTV based service and features applications like Facebook and remote record, an application that allows subscribers to manage their PVR recordings from any Internet connection or select smartphone. One PVR is all you need to enable every digital box in your home with the ability to pause, rewind and replay live TV, schedule recordings, access existing recordings, and pause a show in one room and pick it up in another room from the same spot. A single PVR can record up to three shows at once. Optik TV also offers Picture-in-Picture browsing, on-screen Call Display, HD Movies On Demand, and HD Pay Per View. It also features an improved search capability that enables effortless searches for shows and movies by actor, director, show title or sporting event, for immediate viewing or recording in the future. With Optik TV, TELUS customers can even use their Xbox 360 as a digital television box. It’s easier and more flexible than ever.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.3 billion of annual revenue and 12.6 million customer connections including 7.2 million wireless subscribers, 3.6 million wireline network access lines, 1.3 million Internet subscribers and more than 450,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $245 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.1 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Eleven TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.

For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

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For more information, please contact:

Chris Gerritsen                                                                       

TELUS Media Relations                                              

(403) 808-9591                                                          

chris.gerritsen@telus.com                                          

Erika Sherk

Communications and Marketing Manager

Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative

(780) 512-6113

esherk@countygp.ab.ca