Manitoba Telecom Services : MTS to offer iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2 and Apple Watch Series 1 in Canada beginning on Friday, September 16

Winnipeg, MB - (TSX:MBT) MTS today announced it will offer iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the best, most advanced iPhone ever, featuring an all-new advanced camera system, dust and water resistant design, stereo speaker system and the A10 Fusion chip which is the most powerful chip on any smartphone while delivering the best battery life ever in an iPhone.

MTS also announced it will offer Apple Watch Series 2, the next generation of the world's most popular smartwatch and Apple Watch Series 1, beginning the same day. Apple Watch Series 2 is packed with incredible fitness and health capabilities including a water resistance 50 metre rating for swimming and built-in GPS. Apple Watch Series 2 also features the brightest display Apple's ever shipped and a powerful dual-core processor, in addition to the performance enhancements of watchOS 3.

'MTS is proud to offer our customers the amazing iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus with a range of flexible and attractive data plans on our extensive 4G LTE network,' said Heather Tulk, Chief Customer Officer, MTS. 'Customers purchasing iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus from MTS will enjoy the most robust data user experience in Manitoba thanks to our Flat Rate data option, innovative MTS Total Internet service and the reach of our 4G LTE network.'

Customers can purchase iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus Apple Watch Series 2 and Apple Watch Series 1 beginning Friday, September 16. iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will also be available. For complete details on pricing, please visit: mts.ca. For more information on iPhone and Apple Watch, please visit: www.apple.com.

About MTS

At MTS, we're proud to be Manitoba's leading information and communications technology provider. We're dedicated to delivering a full suite of services for Manitobans - Internet, Wireless, TV, Phone Service and Security Systems plus a full suite of Information Solutions, including Unified Cloud and Managed Services. You can count on MTS to make connecting your world easy. We're with you.

We live where we work and actively give back to organizations that strengthen our communities. Through MTS Future First, we provide sponsorships, grants and scholarships, value-in-kind support and volunteer commitment in Manitoba.

MTS Inc. is wholly owned by Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (TSX: MBT). For more on MTS' products and services, visit mts.ca. For investor information, visit www.mts.ca/aboutus.

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This news release includes forward-looking statements and information (collectively, the 'statements') about MTS's products and services that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. As a consequence, actual results in the future may differ materially from any conclusion, forecast or projection in such forward-looking statements. Therefore, forward-looking statements should be considered carefully and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Examples of statements that constitute forward-looking information may be identified by words such as 'believe', 'expect', 'project', 'should', 'anticipate', 'could', 'target', 'forecast', 'intend', 'plan', 'outlook', 'see', 'set', 'pending', and other similar terms.

Factors that could cause anticipated opportunities and actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, matters identified in the 'Material assumptions' section and the 'Risks and uncertainties' section of the Company's 2014 Annual Management's Discussion & Analysis and 2014 Annual Information Form, both of which are available on SEDAR www.sedar.com.

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Jeremy Sawatzky
Corporate Communications
MTS Inc.