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TELUS selects BRANCHEZ-VOUS! for its Internet ad representation in Quebec

Montréal, February 25, 2008 -- With BRANCHEZ-VOUS!'s wide network, myTELUS.com and GlobeTrotter.net
will get extended visibility across the province

TELUS today announced that BRANCHEZ-VOUS! will represent its two general-audience web sites in Quebec: the myTELUS.com and GlobeTrotter.net portals, featuring the highly popular 'Le Cas Roberge' web series and live webcasts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (LHJMQ).


"TELUS selected BRANCHEZ-VOUS! because of its wide advertising network and deep knowledge of the Internet advertising business in Quebec," said Eric Bourbeau, director, Digital Content for TELUS in Québec. "We are confident that BRANCHEZ-VOUS! will be excellent representatives for our sites in Québec."

myTELUS.com is TELUS' English-language portal, with more than 2.4 million Canadian web users and TELUS subscribers surfing on the site every month*. myTELUS.com reaches an estimated 10% of Internet users in Canada.

GlobeTrotter.net is the French-language portal for TELUS' Internet service subscribers since 1995. Over half a million Canadians and TELUS Internet service subscribers visit the site every month*, including many web users from Eastern Québec. Globetrotter.net reaches an estimated 7% of French-speaking web users in Canada.

"Le Cas Roberge" (lecasroberge.com) is a weekly web series featuring comedy sketches with Benoit Roberge and cast of well known Quebec actors and comedians. Each new video is seen on average between 20,000 and 60,000 times.

The QMJHL (lhjmq.globetrotter.net) section on GlobeTrotter.net features live video webcasts of all LHJMQ hockey matches.

"We are proud of the confidence TELUS is showing us in helping them execute their Internet advertising strategy", said Sébastien Goulet, vice-president of Sales, BRANCHEZ-VOUS!. "With its strong presence in eastern Québec, GlobeTrotter.net is an essential component for all web campaigns that wish to cover the entirety of Quebec. myTELUS.com, as a dominant portal in Alberta and British Columbia, is a must for all national Canadian ad campaigns. As for the Cas Roberge and LHJMQ sites, they are premium media vehicles for any Web video campaign in Quebec."

(* comScore MediaMetrix, French Canada, total audience, August 2007)

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.0 billion of annual revenue and 11.0 million customer connections including 5.4 million wireless subscribers, 4.4 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. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.


About BRANCHEZ-VOUS!


BRANCHEZ-VOUS! is a leading Montreal-based Internet media company, active in Internet content and advertising.

"BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Advertising" sells Internet advertising space. It commercializes the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network, the largest French-language Internet advertising network in Canada with over 200 French-language web sites, approximately 50 of which are represented on an exclusive basis; these include GlobeTrotter.net, LeDevoir.com, JeuxVideo.com and the French version of Canada411.ca. The BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network reaches approximately 3 million French Canadians each month. BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Advertising also represents the myTELUS.com portal in Quebec.

"BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Content" produces, publishes and commercializes French-language Internet content. It operates BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com, the largest independent portal in Quebec, which primarily targets an audience of active adults working in and/or interested by technology and reaches over 500,000 users each month.

BRANCHEZ-VOUS! is listed on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol BZV and has approximately 29.3 million shares outstanding. Additional information on the Corporation can be obtained on SEDAR and at www.branchez-vous.com/inc/english . The TSX Venture exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.

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Contacts:

For TELUS:

TELUS Media Relations
Stacey Masson
514.977.8766
Stacey.masson@telus.com
or
Anne-Julie Gratton
416.279-8522
aj.gratton@telus.com

For BRANCHEZ-VOUS!:

Patrick Pierra
President and CEO
514.842.3838 ext. 249

Nicholas Powell
Investment Relations consultant
514.904.0084

www.branchez-vous.com/contacts



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