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TELUS Selects Fujitsu for 100G Inter-City Regional Network Deployments

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

Richardson, TX, March 26, 2013

Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology, and communications solutions, announced today that TELUS has selected Fujitsu to help bring 100G performance to the service provider’s network. By utilizing the Fujitsu 100G solution on the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE® 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP), TELUS will be able to meet the bandwidth requirements for high-speed data services, Internet video services, and smart phones, while ensuring a better cost per unit and a lasting technology foundation for their evolving packet-centric regional and national network.

“Our partnership with Fujitsu enables us to continue providing the reach, bandwidth and reliability that our customers require,” said Zouheir Mansourati, Vice President, TELUS Fixed Network Planning & Engineering. “Additionally, by utilizing the FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP for 100G connectivity, TELUS can deliver a high level of service while achieving more efficient regional network utilization, better cost per gigabit of IP traffic, and lower operating cost. Our customers know that TELUS will always support their communications needs with the most advanced and reliable technologies available.”

The Fujitsu 100G solution is designed to meet the demand for bandwidth growth in core networks driven by high speed data services, internet video services, and the wide adoption of bandwidth intensive smart phones. The Fujitsu 100G solution can be cost-effectively deployed to expand network capacity by a factor of 10, eliminating the need for expensive, overlay networks.

“Carrier networks are facing tremendous increases in bandwidth transported,” said Rod Naphan, Senior Vice President of Product and Strategic Planning for Fujitsu Network Communications. “At the same time, these networks are under immense pressure to lower their cost per bit transported. Fujitsu’s 100G technology can help TELUS achieve better network utilization, higher spectral efficiencies and lower overall operating costs.”

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.4 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.

About Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., headquartered in Richardson, Texas, is an innovator in Connection-Oriented Ethernet and optical transport technologies. A market leader in packet optical networking solutions, WDM and SONET, Fujitsu offers a broad portfolio of multivendor network services as well as end-to-end solutions for design, implementation, migration, support and management of optical networks. For seven consecutive years Fujitsu has been named the U.S. photonics patent leader, and is the only major optical networking vendor to manufacture its own equipment in North America. Fujitsu has over 500,000 network elements deployed by major North American carriers across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please see: http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.9 billion of annual revenue and more than 13.1 million customer connections, including 7.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.4 million wireline network access lines, 1.4 million Internet subscribers and 678,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed more than $300 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Fourteen TELUS Community Boards lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

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Date: March 26, 2013
City: Richardson, TX
Company: Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.,

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