Title: George Cope
1George Cope President and CEO, TELUS Mobility
Goldman, Sachs Co. Global Wireless
Communications Conference Miami, May 9, 2001
2Forward Looking Legal Disclaimer
This presentation contains statements about
expected future events and financial and
operating results of TELUS Corporation (TELUS)
that are forward-looking and subject to risks and
uncertainties. Accordingly, TELUS actual
results, performance, or achievement could differ
materially from those expressed or implied by
such statements. Such statements are qualified in
their entirety by the inherent risks and
uncertainties surrounding future expectations.
These statements do not necessarily reflect the
potential impact of any material future
acquisitions, mergers or divestitures. In
addition to the factors discussed herein and in
the documents incorporated by reference among the
other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially are the following general
business and economic conditions in Canada and in
TELUS service territories in Canada the outcome
of debt refinancing terms including timing,
amount and cost competition in local and long
distance services, wireless services, data and
Internet services and within the Canadian
telecommunications industry generally corporate
restructurings and successful integration of
wireless operations adverse regulatory action
including Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission contribution
decisions and appeals the outcome of collective
agreement negotiations technological advances
the effect of health and safety concerns and
effect of certain strategic alliances. TELUS
disclaims any intention or obligation to update
or revise any forward-looking statements, whether
as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
3The New TELUS Mobility
4Canadian Wireless Results
Trailing 12-month penetration gain
Source Company reports and TELUS estimates
5Industry GrowthRecord Q1 Net Additions
33
348 K
262 K
1Q 00
1Q 01
Source Company reports and TELUS estimates
6TELUS Mobility Operating Highlights
1
1Q 01 1Q 00 Change
Revenue (M) 456.8 374.2 22 Service Revenue
(M) 384.6 317.3 27 EBITDA-COA (M) 188.8 143.8 31
EBITDA (M) 76.5 53.9 42 ARPU per month
() 57 59 (3) Churn - per month () 1.86
1.80 3 COA () 2
535 505 6
1 Pro forma to include 3 month results of
QuebecTel Mobilité and Clearnet 2 1Q 2001 COA
adjusted to include 7.7M rebranding cost booked
to restructuring provision
7TELUS Mobility Net Additions
2,257 K
1,780 K
1,364 K
Net adds
101 K
85 K
64 K
1Q 001
1Q 01
1Q 991
1 Pro forma
8Postpaid-Prepaid Mix
Prepaid 11
Postpaid 89
2.3 million Subscribers
91Q 01 Net Additions Led Industry
101 K
99 K
63 K
62 K
25 K
TELUS Mobility
Bell Mobility
Microcell
Other
Rogers ATT
10Industry-Leading 1Q 01 ARPU
57
44
42
TELUS Mobility
Bell Mobility
Rogers ATT
11Strategy - Industry Leading Revenue Growth
TELUS Mobility Share of
Total 1Q 01 Industry Net Additions
TELUS Mobility
Share of 1Q 01 Incremental Industry Revenue
Growth1
38
29
1 Includes four major Canadian wireless
carriers Source Company reports and TELUS
estimates
12Wireless Data Update
- 72 of digital base on browser web-ready phones
- Over 70 wireless web content partners
- One week stats
- 12 million data hits
- TELUSmail used 712,000 times
- Top game site visited 1,590,000 times
- More web ready handsets to come
- Colour screens
- Multimedia
- Java enabled
- Expected launch of 1XRTT 4Q 01/1Q 02
- Estimated cost approx. US1 per POP
13New PCS Handset
- New Samsung Uproar
- Worlds first MP3 phone
- Its a..
- Digital PCS phone
- Internet portal
- Organizer
- MP3 player
14New Mike Handset
- New Motorola i85s
- All-in-one digital PCS phone
- with Mikes Direct Connect,
- Pager service Wireless Web
- Features include
- Speaker phone
- Recordable voice notes
- Load special Java application
- Personal organizer
- Settings for Smart Card information
15Integration Update
Rebranding Products Services Distribution Ration
alizing the Network Roaming Billing Management
Team
162001 TELUS Mobility Targets
1Q 01 Status
-
- Maintain leading revenue growth led industry
- 500,000 net additions 100.8K
- Manage churn at lt2.0 1.86
- EBITDA - approx. 330M 76.5M
- 700M to expand and digitize network1 102M
- Integrate national operations going well
- New data products and services yes
- Enhance spectrum position completed
- 1 Not including 356M for wireless spectrum
17Appendix
18About TELUS
- Canadas full service telecom provider in Western
Canada - Merger of BC TELECOM and TELUS in 1999
- Purchased Clearnet 70 of QuébecTel in 2000
- Listings TSE T, T.A, NYSE TU
- Included in Toronto 35 and SP/TSE 60
- 90-day average daily trading volume of TELUS
shares (T, T.A/TU) 950K
19About TELUS
- Year 2000 operating results
- Assets of C18 B
- Revenues of C6.4 B
- EBITDA of C2.5 B
- Market capitalization approx. C9 B
- Share ownership
- Verizon (NYSEVZ) 22
- Nextel (NASDAQNXTL) 5
- Motorola (NYSEMOT) 3
- Public 70
20About TELUS
- ILEC in Western Canada Eastern Québec
- 4.9 million access lines
- Largest Internet service provider in Western
Canada - Leading 78 share of long-distance market
- CLEC in rest of Canada
- Lit most advanced extensive fibre-optic network
in Canada - March 2001 - Largest national wireless provider
- Leads industry in revenue, ARPU spectrum
position - Alliances with Verizon and Genuity