TELUS RENEWS CONTRACT FOR THREE YEARS WITH CANQUEST

May 1, 2006 – TELUS Communications, Inc., the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, has renewed its contract with Canquest until 2009 to provide Point-of-Sale Activation services, PrePaid long distance switching and PrePaid Internet authentications.

Under the Agreement, TELUS will continue to 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.

Canquest technologies are already integrated into two of TELUS' customers, Safeway and Save-On-Foods grocery stores located throughout western Canada.

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, contact;

Mike Pugh   mpugh@canquest.com
Senior Vice President   519-351-8647 tel.
Canquest Communications   519-351-0021 fax