TELUS brings Canadians the BlackBerry Storm smartphone

Research In Motion's revolutionary touch-screen smartphone now available

Starting today, TELUS is offering the BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) at select TELUS stores across Canada. To celebrate, TELUS customers who buy the BlackBerry Storm smartphone will receive the gift of music this holiday season with a limited-time offer of exclusive pre-loaded songs and music videos from some of Canada's hottest artists. The songs and videos will come on an eight gigabyte microSDHC memory card made possible through TELUS' collaboration with Arts & Crafts, one of Canada's most-respected independent music labels.

The memory card puts top Canadian artists such as Stars, Broken Social Scene, The Stills, Constantines, Kevin Drew, Jason Collett and Brendan Canning at Canadians' fingertips via the BlackBerry Storm smartphone's innovative touch-screen. Plus, the 8 GB memory card leaves users with plenty of extra storage space for their favourite multimedia files.

The BlackBerry Storm smartphone will be available at select TELUS stores across Canada in limited quantity starting today, with availability in additional TELUS stores in January.

"We've experienced unprecedented interest in the BlackBerry Storm smartphone and are pleased that Canadians are just as excited about the BlackBerry Storm as we are," said John Watson, president of TELUS Consumer Solutions. "With exclusive TELUS content and excellent plans for every kind of BlackBerry smartphone client, we're able to take the touch-screen experience to new heights, while reinforcing TELUS' position as Canada's smartphone leader."

The BlackBerry Storm smartphone's SurePress touch-screen depresses ever so slightly when pressed, giving customers tactile feedback and making navigation and typing more precise. It also sports the features and reliability BlackBerry smartphone users have come to love - easy-to-use email and instant messaging, full HTML Internet browsing, and integrated access to Facebook and MySpace, all on Canada's largest 3G network.

The BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone is available from TELUS for as little as $249.99 on a three-year contract or $599.99 without a contract. Combined with TELUS' affordable data plans, uploading photos from a night on the town to Facebook or exchanging emails at high speeds on TELUS' 3G network helps clients enjoy life on the go.

Limited quantities are available in select TELUS stores across Canada. For more information about the BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone and TELUS products and services available for the holidays, please visit www.telus.com.

About Arts & Crafts Productions

Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as a record label, management firm, merchandiser, and music publisher both in Canada and internationally. Launched in 2002 with the release of Broken Social Scene's critically acclaimed album, You Forgot It In People, Arts & Crafts has released forty albums from nineteen artists, earning nine JUNO Awards along the way. For more information about Arts & Crafts, please visit arts-crafts.ca.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.5 billion of annual revenue and 11.5 million customer connections including 6 million wireless subscribers, 4.3 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $113 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 2.1 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

SOURCE: TELUS Corporation

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