TELUS Mobility 3G EV-DO Wireless High Speed Network

Canada : TELUS Mobility launched its national Wireless High Speed Network, offering clients in five major urban centres across Canada access to the Internet, e-mail servers and other data networks at speeds at least six times faster than previous mobile data services.

Broadband data speeds

Wireless High Speed offers clients the broadband data access they've become accustomed to on their desktops, but now they can take that speed on the road. With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 megabytes per second, TELUS Mobility's Wireless High Speed network offers clients the speed they need for powerful mobile computing applications.

"By uniting the broadband access speeds of our Wireless High Speed network with the newest portable computing products, TELUS Mobility is providing clients across Canada with the most powerful mobile data solution available today," said Wade Oosterman, TELUS Mobility's Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

TELUS Mobility plans to extend Wireless High Speed service to other urban centres in 2006. Based on the CDMA 1xEVDO standard, the newest Third Generation (3G) wireless data technology available, Wireless High Speed was built with network infrastructure solutions provided by Lucent Technologies and Nortel.

Seamless cross-network roaming with TELUS Connection Manager

TELUS Connection Manager Software, also launched today, provides mobile computing clients using portable PCs and a TELUS Mobility PC card with one-click access to the best available wireless network - including TELUS Mobility's Wireless High Speed, 1X and Hotspot systems.

TELUS Connection Manager Software also offers built-in acceleration software that can increase data access speeds by two to three times on Wireless High Speed or 1X data networks through data compression. TELUS Connection Manager software is available for download by clients at the mytelusmobility.com client portal.

Wireless High Speed data products

TELUS Mobility has a wide variety of Wireless High Speed data devices available now and in the near future. All are "backward compatible" with the ability to operate on TELUS Mobility's national 1X data network, which covers more than 90% of the Canadian population, when outside Wireless High Speed coverage areas.

Sierra Wireless AirCard 580: Wireless High Speed is available to clients with the Sierra Wireless AirCard® 580, a PC card that allows clients high-speed mobile access to the Internet and other data networks from their portable PCs. Thousands of TELUS Mobility clients have already purchased the Sierra Wireless AirCard 580 in preparation for the launch of Wireless High Speed, and require only a simple, free software upgrade available at telusmobility.com to access the service. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 580 costs $99.99 on a three-year contract or $249.99 with no contract.

UTStarcom Pocket PC 6700: Offering e-mail and more, the UTStarcom Pocket PC 6700 running Windows Mobile 5.0 will be available next week, featuring wireless always-on access to e-mail with Microsoft® Office Outlook® Mobile, applications such as Microsoft Office PowerPoint® Mobile (to view presentations on-the-go), Microsoft Office Excel® Mobile (with new chart support), and multimedia and internet access via Internet Explorer Mobile and Windows Media Player. It also features a full sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with video, built-in Wi-Fi capability, and Bluetooth wireless technology for use with headsets and car kits. TELUS Mobility is the first carrier in Canada to offer the UTStarcom Pocket PC 6700.

Kyocera Passport KPC650: The Kyocera Passport KPC650, a PC card providing broadband-like access to the Internet and other data networks for clients using portable PCs, will be available within the next few weeks to clients across Canada.

RIM BlackBerry 7130e: The BlackBerry 7130e(tm) will offer complete BlackBerry® functionality including support for phone, e-mail, Internet, text messaging, organizer and data applications, all in a compact traditional wireless phone form factor. The BlackBerry 7130e can also be used as a tethered modem to connect laptops to the Internet over TELUS Mobility's Wireless High Speed network. The BlackBerry 7130e will be available to TELUS Mobility clients later this year.

About TELUS Mobility

TELUS Mobility provides its more than 4.3 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its PCS and Mike digital wireless networks. For more about TELUS Mobility products, please visit telusmobility.com.

TELUS (TSX: T, T.NV; NYSE: TU) is a national telecommunications company with more than $8.0 billion of annual revenue, 4.7 million network access lines and 4.3 million wireless clients. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, voice and wireless services across Canada, utilizing next generation Internet-based technologies.

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