Enhancing wireless coverage in the region,
bringing Optik TV to more homes
Spruce Grove, AB - TELUS will invest
$2.2 million in Spruce Grove in 2012 to expand its 4G
wireless network and introduce Optik TV to even more
homes.
"TELUS' $2.2 million will enhance our world-class
wireless network and improve Internet speeds for businesses
and households right here in Spruce Grove," said Yolanta
Miller, TELUS general manager of Customer Solutions
Delivery for the community. "TELUS is
committed to making investments in infrastructure and
technology to better serve our customers and communities.
We are deeply grateful for the hard work and outstanding
commitment of our more than 140 local team
members and retirees and for the support of our
customers."
This significant investment is part of $2 billion in
infrastructure upgrades being made across Alberta through
2014 and builds upon the $26 billion TELUS has already
invested in operations and technology throughout the
province over the last 10 years.
TELUS' commitment also extends to supporting local
charities and community organisations.
"As important as our infrastructure investments are
to our success, our commitment to local community
organisations is near and dear to our hearts. TELUS
believes deeply in the symbiotic relationship between the
success of business and the welfare of our communities,"
continued Miller. "We embrace a
simple philosophy - we give where we live - and we take
great pride in the social outcomes we are helping to
realize. Since 2000, our TELUS family of
14,000 employees and retirees in Alberta has donated over
$82 million and, more importantly, volunteered 1.2 million
hours, with our hearts and our hands, to community and
charitable organisations. Additionally, the
TELUS team will contribute a further $10 million to
local, grassroots community projects in 2012."
TELUS' $2.2 million investment in 2012 will:
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Enhance its 4G wireless network in Spruce Grove.
4G LTE is the most advanced, fastest wireless
technology available in the world today. TELUS 4G LTE
network supports manufacturers' rated peak download
speeds of up to 75 megabits per second (Mbps), with an
expected average of 12 to 25 Mbps.
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Extend Optik TV to more Spruce Grove homes this
year.By the end of 2012 TELUS will expand
the reach of its Optik TV service to reach nearly 70
percent of Alberta households. At the end of 2011 TELUS
had 509,000 TV customers, adding 56,000 in the final
three months of the year. 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
smartphones. 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.
In addition to our investment in Spruce Grove, TELUS
will connect 18 remote and geographically challenging
Alberta communities to broadband Internet. By the end of
2012, TELUS will connect Bear Canyon, Blue Ridge, Brocket,
Bruce, Donalda, Ferintosh, Hays, Holden, Hussar, Jarvie,
Keephills, Marlboro, Pickardville, Walsh, Waterton Park,
Mulhurst, Seba Beach and Wildwood. By 2014 we will connect
a further 37 communities to ensure citizens have access to
high speed Internet.
The capital investment disclosed in this release is
consistent with TELUS' overall capital expenditure
guidance for 2012.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national
telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.5 billion of
annual revenue and 12.7 million customer connections
including 7.4 million wireless subscribers, 3.5 million
wireline network access lines and 1.3 million Internet
subscribers and more than 550,000 TELUS TV customers. Led
since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS
provides a wide range of communications products and
services including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP),
voice, television, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live,
TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed more
than $260 million to charitable and not-for-profit
organizations and volunteered 4.2 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.
Forward looking statement:
This news release contains statements about
expected future events of TELUS that are forward-looking.
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 could cause actual future events to differ
materially from that expressed in the forward-looking
statements. Except as required by law, TELUS disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise forward-looking
statements.
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For more information, please contact:
Chris Gerritsen
TELUS Media Relations
(403) 808-9591
chris.gerritsen@telus.com
B-roll of TELUS infrastructure projects can be
downloaded from the following FTP site:
Username: 12-079
Password: t3lu5
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