Public WLAN Provider Spotnik Mobile 
Secures $6 Million in Financing

 TELUS backing accelerates public high-speed Wi-Fi implementation

    TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2002 - Spotnik Mobile, the Toronto-based public Wireless LAN (WLAN) service provider, today announced it has secured a $6 million (Cdn.) financing commitment from TELUS Ventures, a business unit of TELUS Corporation, to speed the company's creation of high-value public Wi-Fi solutions across Canada.

    Spotnik Mobile is believed to be the first and only public wireless LAN service provider in Canada to both secure funding from and partner with a major telecommunications carrier.

    "Spotnik has developed a robust service platform and formed exclusive Wi- Fi partnerships with several premium locations," said Mark Wolinsky, Spotnik's co-ceo. "With TELUS' support, we are now in a strong position to roll out our network and lead the Canadian market in providing high-speed Wi-Fi Internet solutions."

    Wi-Fi is the common term for the IEEE wireless Ethernet standard, also known as 802.11b, which utilizes unlicensed radio spectrum in the 2.4 GHz range to provide wireless data rates of up to 11 Megabits per second (Mbs) in public and private locations - up to 10 times faster than existing wireless networks.

    "TELUS is dedicated to unleashing the power of the Internet through the development of the best integrated communications solutions for Canadians at home, at work or on the move," said Robert Blumenthal, TELUS Mobility's vice president of products and services. "TELUS has the expertise required to create and deliver smart WLAN solutions for our clients, and partnering with Spotnik will allow us to offer public WLAN service in key locations across Canada."

    Adds Murray McCaig, Spotnik co-ceo: "We believe in an open, neutral-host model of doing business and Spotnik Mobile is aggressively pursuing reseller partnerships with Canadian mobile carriers and ISPs. The Spotnik approach is intended to relieve the carriers of the complexities involved in location rights negotiation, WLAN network deployment and service management."

    Spotnik plans its official network launch early in the new year, at which time it will reveal its broad set of premium location partners and showcase a dense network of public Wi-Fi "hotSPOTS" prepared to serve the mobile professional's growing need for easily accessible mobile broadband service.

    About TELUS
    TELUS (TSX: T, TA; 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 partner of the Canadian bid to host the 2010 Winter Games, and was rated this year as one of Canada's top 10 companies to work for by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine. For more information, please visit www.telus.com 

    TELUS Ventures manages TELUS' venture capital fund, targeting start-up businesses and emerging technology ventures consistent with TELUS' strategy to exploit the convergence of data, voice, IP and wireless.

    About Spotnik Mobile
    Spotnik Mobile is the leading provider of secure high-speed public wireless Internet service across Canada. Through a wide network of premium location partnerships with airports, hotels, conference centers and cafés, Spotnik enables the rapidly growing population of wirelessly enabled mobile individuals to achieve real gains on productivity through high-speed Internet access outside traditional domains.

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Contact:
 Kate Baillie
(416) 873-6138
 www.spotnikmobile.com