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TELUS Launches New Wireless Tool for Canadian Financial Institutions That Lets Their Customers Bank on the Fly

Vancouver, BC, March 27, 2007--(T-Net)--TELUS Mobile Customer Self Service is coming to Canadian financial institutions, a new product that will let their customers bank on the fly on their cell phones.

Offered exclusively in Canada by TELUS, Mobile Customer Self Service is the only solution for two-way interaction between financial institutions and their customers that does not require downloading additional software onto mobile devices. TELUS Customer Self Service leverages the messaging capabilities already on mobile handsets, including short message service (SMS), wireless email and the mobile browser.

It allows secure banking transactions on mobile communications devices - regardless of carrier, manufacturer, operating system or wireless transmission standard.

For retail banks, credit unions, brokerages, and credit card companies, TELUS Mobile Customer Self Service easily integrates with their back-end systems and can be customized to offer a host of new features to power retail banking services for their customers.

These customer services include:

- Actionable alerts (such as questionable account activity or transaction approvals)

- On-demand access to account information

- No-hold customer service which uniquely allows customers to get into the call centre queue without waiting on hold, simply by text messaging their bank.

"TELUS is offering financial institutions a new way to help their customers, providing them with a tool that offers the ultimate in banking convenience in a secure IT environment," said Luc Vilandré, vice-president, TELUS National Application Solutions. "The addition of Mobile Customer Self Service to our dynamic offering of wireless application services reinforces TELUS' position as Canada's wireless market leader with best-in-class technology and differentiated solutions for business."

Mobile Customer Self Service is a software solution developed by ClairMail, Inc., a leader in mobile phone-based customer interaction solutions based in Novato, California.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $8.7 billion of annual revenue and 10.7 million customer connections including 5.1 million wireless subscribers, 4.5 million wireline network access lines and 1.1 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. Committed to being Canada's premier corporate citizen, over the last six years TELUS has contributed more than $76 million to charitable and non-profit organizations, and has established seven TELUS Community Boards across Canada to lead its local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

For further information

Allison Vale, TELUS Media Relations, (416) 629-6425, Allison.Vale@telus.com

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