Telus has an estimated 9000 employees in the Philippines where it is known as Telus International, Inc. ( formerly Ambergris Solutions ) as part of its global expansion.

Telus advertising has been noted for its use of whimsical, nature-themed imagery and the slogan, ' The Future is Friendly '.

Beyond traditional media, Telus has also extended its brand imagery to both its website and its online advertising.

Most notably, Telus has been a premier sponsor and marketing partner of Hockey Canada since 2004 and the title sponsor of Canada's national midget hockey championship, the Telus Cup, since 2005.

Telus has been a sponsor of Rogers Sportsnet's regional broadcasts of Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers games.

* Telus Field, home of the Edmonton Capitals has a-high green monster which boasts the record of never having a home run hit over it

At the provincial level, privatized former Crown corporations include Alberta Government Telephones ( which merged with privately owned BC Tel to form Telus ), BCRIC, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan which retained its name and has become the world's largest producer of potash.

TSN also has a broadcasting contract with Hockey Canada, giving it the rights to broadcast the IIHF World Junior Championships, Men's and Women's World Hockey Championship, Men's Under-18 World Championships, Allan Cup, Royal Bank Cup, Spengler Cup, Telus Cup and Esso Cup.

File: Space-and-Science-Centre-Edmonton-Alberta. jpg | Edmonton Space And Science Centre, ( 1984 ) Coronation Park, Edmonton, Alberta, which has since been renovated and rebranded as the Telus World of Science

It has also hosted a number of concerts, trade shows, wrestling shows and tournaments such as the 1999 Scott Tournament of Hearts, 2003 Royal Bank Cup and 2006 Telus Cup.

XM Radio Canada has strategic alliances with Corus Entertainment, Telesat Canada, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Telus, Rogers Communications and Air Canada.

Kittle also hit 50 homers in the minor leagues with the Edmonton Trappers and has his jersey retired in Edmonton at Telus Field.

Telus Mobility has a partnership with Public Mobile to allow the latter's customers to roam on Telus ' CDMA network in Quebec, Ontario and parts of Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia.

Since 2008, Telus has operated a MVNO named Koodo Mobile.

Since the late 1990s, Telus Mobility has operated its own proprietary CDMA network, currently considered 3G.

In August 2012, for the first time since offering CDMA service, Telus no longer has any CDMA phones available for sale, not even on clearance.

Telus plans to launch a push to talk service over LTE, which will eventually replace Telus ' iDEN Network, though no timeline has been announced for these changes.

Like its HSPA + networks, Telus Mobility has a network sharing agreement with Bell Mobility for its LTE network.

The flexible " Smart Hub " plan from Telus has usage allowances of 3 GB, 5 GB and 10 GB.

Telus Mobility has its own corporate retail stores and also allows third parties to become exclusive dealers.

This was no longer the case when Telus and Bell created two separate HSPA + networks, with some roaming agreements between the two.

Telus customers receive no additional charges for roaming on the Bell network, and vice-versa.

Telus and the TWU ratified a tentative agreement on November 18, 2005, ending the dispute.

All these acquisitions, along with a tower sharing agreement with then-primarily Eastern Canada based Bell Mobility, allowed Telus Mobility to serve a coast to coast CDMA network in all Canadian provinces.

In January 2005, the building was officially renamed " Telusphere " as part of an agreement where Telus gave a $ 9-million donation in return for the " naming rights " of the building.

* Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility operated AMPS networks in Canada, though they have since been overlaid with digital services.

As a result of the merger Telus became Canada's second largest telcom with 22 % of market share compared to Bell Canada's 42 %.

Following the merger of BCTel with Telus of Alberta, GTE sold its interests in Québec Téléphone to Telus in August 2000, which renamed it Telus Québec on April 2, 2001.

Telus ' labour dispute with the Telecommunications Workers Union ( TWU ) began after the previous contract, negotiated with BCTel before the Telus merger, expired at the end of 2000.

Telus International expanded into the United States and in July 2009 opened a call centre in Guatemala with 300 employees.

The foundations of the Telus brand originated with Clearnet Communications, including its colours, use of animal motifs and the " the future is friendly " word tag, which was developed and started by Clearnet in the late 1990s.

Telus pledged $ 10, 000 towards the building of a new habitat for Hazina and announced a plan to make available for ' adoption ' plush hippopotamus toys through Telus dealers, with all proceeds from BC going towards Hazina and all proceeds from Alberta going towards the hippopotamus at the Calgary Zoo.

New additions include a Walmart superstore with an in-store MacDonalds, Marks Work Wearhouse, Hallmark, Bulk Barn, EB Games, Home Depot, A & W, Rona, Busters Bar and Grill, Staples, Starbucks, Telus Mobility, Shawarma Palace, Subway, LCBO, and Giant Tiger.

Other firms with operations based in Burnaby include Canada Wide Media, Doteasy, Telus, and Translink.

Telus Field uses natural grass in the outfield and FieldTurf in the infield ; originally AstroTurf was used but it was replaced in 2005 with the more modern type of turf, FieldTurf.

However, the CRTC ruled in favor of Telus in a decision requiring Bell and other media companies to allow other competing wireless providers access to its content, and not exclusively tie it to their own service ( as they had attempted to do with TSN Mobile TV ).

However, the company also competes nationally with Telus for wireless services, Shaw Communications for television service, and various other media companies in the broadcasting industry.

This decision was made after Prentice dialogued with senior Bell and Telus executives and suggested that consumers " seek alternatives ", even in Canada's limited-competition cellular industry.

Many telephone companies, including Canada's Telus, are experimenting with merging 8-1-1 and 6-1-1 service now that neither will usually route directly to a human operator.

Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ( QMJHL ) first overall by the Penguins in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Fleury played major junior for four seasons with the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, earning both the Mike Bossy Trophy as the league's top prospect and the Telus Cup as the top defensive player in 2003.

In his final season with Rimouski, Richards won nearly every honor possible for a Canadian junior player in the QMJHL: he earned the Jean Béliveau Trophy after leading the league with 186 points, as well as the Telus Cup, given to the league's best offensive player ; he won the QMJHL and Canadian Hockey League Plus / Minus Awards with a plus-80 mark, and was a First-Team All-Star in both the Quebec circuit and the CHL, as well as the CHL Player of the Year and Leading Scorer.