TELUS : investing $62 million in the Greater Toronto Area in 2016

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

Toronto, Ontario - TELUS will invest $62 million in new infrastructure and facilities in the Greater Toronto Area this year to enhance the speed, capacity and coverage of its wireless networks in the GTA; further enhance critical fibre optic communications links to business customers; enhance cloud computing data centre solutions; and offer innovative healthcare IT solutions.

'Our $62 million investment means people across the GTA and surrounding areas, will be able to take advantage of dramatically faster wireless speeds and enhanced network coverage,' said David Fuller, Executive Vice-President and President, TELUS Consumer and Small Business Solutions. 'For businesses and healthcare providers, this investment further builds upon the work we have done in past years to open up direct connection to our broadband network and the powerful cloud computing and Internet of Things solutions that it supports.'

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.

This year in the Greater Toronto Area, TELUS is:

• Building new wireless sites to add capacity and extend the reach of its wireless network in the GTA and throughout Ontario, 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 the Greater Toronto Area; more than 10 locations will get an upgrade 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;

• Enhancing the capacity of its advanced Internet data centres to meet the growing needs of its current and future clients in Ontario and across Canada. Combined with TELUS' expanded cloud portfolio, Toronto businesses now have 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. As the leading electronic medical record provider in the province and a partner of the Ontario government in supporting electronic health records across the GTA, TELUS Health is enabling 42,000 registered clinicians across close to 40 sites in the region to view or contribute health data, resulting in more efficient and coordinated care. This will help participating clinicians provide better care, with better outcomes, at a lower cost to Ontarians.

'We believe our investment in local organizations is just as important as our investment in technology,' added Fuller. 'Our philosophy, We Give Where We Live, is exemplified by our TELUS family of team members and retirees contributing more than $48.5 million and volunteering over 395,000 hours to charitable and community organizations throughout the GTA since 2000.'

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.

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