TELUS SELECTS CANQUEST AS PREPAID TRANSACTION PROVIDER

(Edmonton, AB) October 23, 2003 – TELUS Communications, Inc., the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, has selected Canquest to provide Point-of-Sale Activation services, PrePaid long distance switching and PrePaid Internet authentications.

Under the Agreement, TELUS will license some of Canquest’s copyrighted technologies to deploy PrePaid technologies throughout their vast distribution network with those that have advanced POS networks. By utilizing each other’s strengths, national multi-lane retailers throughout the country will now be able to merchandise and bring a suite of PrePaid products into mainstream.

“We’re excited that TELUS considers Canquest as an approved technology provider for their PrePaid products,” cited Mike Pugh, Senior Vice President Corporate Planning & Development for Canquest. “As part of the service agreement with TELUS, Canquest will be providing copyrighted point-of-sale activation services, PrePaid long distance switching over the TELUS network and PrePaid Internet authentication services, all of which will be supported by our in-house 24/7 multi-lingual call centre.”

“It’s going to be exciting having the opportunity to expand our PrePaid offerings into mainstream Canada,” stated Barb Keylor, Portfolio Manager for PrePaid Applications at TELUS. “Canquest will enable advanced point-of-sale activation services at locations that cannot practically carry our products today.”
Said Barb Keylor, Prepaid Applications Portfolio Manager at TELUS Communications, “We are very pleased to have Canquest’s support in expanding our product line to include point-of-sale-activated prepaid.”

Canquest Communications (Canada) Inc. is a privately owned company and is a leader in the development of debit transactions for PrePaid systems and software in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico supported by its own 24/7 multi-lingual call center. Canquest services the wireline and wireless telephone companies in Canada and Bermuda as well as large national distributors.

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, Internet Protocol, voice and TELUS Mobility wireless services across Canada. TELUS is a premier founding supporter of Canada's bid to host the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler.

For more information, please contact:

TELUS
9D-10020-100 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 0N5
Tel; 780-493-4561
Barb Keylor, Portfolio Manager, PrePaid Applications
barbara.keylor@telus.com

Canquest
14 William Street North
Chatham, Ontario
N7M 4L1
Tel; 519-351-8647
Mike Pugh, Senior Vice President
mpugh@canquest.com