TELUS : investing $30.5 million in the nation’s capital in 2016

Significant investment will increase wireless speeds and capacity, enhance high-speed Internet for businesses and help deliver better healthcare solutions

Ottawa, Ontario - TELUS will invest $30.5 million in new infrastructure and facilities in Ottawa, Hull and Gatineau this year to enhance the speed, capacity and coverage of its wireless networks; provide critical fibre optic connections to business clients; and further enhance its innovative offerings for healthcare providers.

This significant investment is part of TELUS' commitment to invest $1 billion in Ontario through 2019 to bring advanced telecommunications infrastructure to every corner of the province, enabling sustained innovation, providing access to world-class education programmes, extending critical healthcare technology to more communities, and fuelling economic growth. By the end of 2019, TELUS will have invested $45 billion in Ontario since the year 2000.

'We're nearly doubling our investment in the national capital region this year, reflecting our commitment to providing advanced telecommunications connections here, and across Canada,' said Ted Woodhead, TELUS senior vice-president of regulatory affairs. 'In connecting businesses and healthcare facilities in the nation's capital directly to our broadband network, we are opening up opportunities for them to operate more efficiently and become even more innovative in how they deliver critical services.'

This year in Ottawa, Hull and Gatineau, TELUS is:

• Building new wireless sites to add capacity and extend the reach of its wireless network, while enhancing and extending LTE - the world's fastest and most advanced wireless technology - to more than 99 per cent of Ontarians;

• Enhancing TELUS storefronts across Ottawa and Gatineau, upgrading stores to showcase emerging technology and integrated solutions including consumer health and wellness, the connected home and home entertainment, and the connected car, ensuring Canadians are connected whenever and wherever to what matters to them the most;

• Continuing to connect businesses and industrial parks directly to its fibre optic network to further stimulate economic growth and help organizations improve the ways in which they deliver their services;

• Investing in Internet-connected devices to promote the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), driving solutions that will enable all business sectors to further their global competitive advantage, reduce their environmental impact and increase worker safety;

• Investing in areas like advanced analytics, cloud-based security services and integrated security solutions to help businesses maintain strong security against a rapidly-growing number of online threats;

• Extending businesses access to a full suite of managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions that includes public and private cloud options, as well as Canada's first hybrid cloud offering built on the Industry-leading Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform;

• Expanding its healthcare solutions. Currently, TELUS provides electronic medical records to more than 15,000 Canadian physicians as well as health benefits management solutions to more than 10,000 pharmacies, 11,000 dental clinics and 33,000 extended healthcare providers across the country. TELUS Health has invested more than $1.6 billion to bring patient-centred solutions to market which are improving the flow of information across the healthcare continuum and enabling better health outcomes for Ontarians and all Canadians.

'TELUS' dedication to Ottawa extends well beyond our investments in operations and infrastructure,' continued Woodhead. 'Since 2000, TELUS and our team members, community board members and retirees who live and work throughout the nation's capital have contributed more than $15.7 million and nearly 63,000 volunteer hours with charitable organizations such as Youville Centre; Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre and Ten Oaks Project.'

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.

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

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.

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For more information, please contact:

Luiza Staniec
TELUS Media Relations
514-665-3413
luiza.staniec@telus.com