Offer to purchase CLEARNET.pdf - About TELUS

WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION
Clearnet files annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’) under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You may read
and copy this information at the following locations of the SEC:
Public Reference Room North East Regional Office Midwest Regional Office
450 Fifth Street, N.W. 7 World Trade Center 500 West Madison Street
Room 1024 Suite 1300 Suite 1400
Washington, D.C. 20549 New York, New York 10048 Chicago, Illinois 60661-2511
You may also obtain copies of this information by mail from the Public Reference Section of the SEC,
450 Fifth Street, N.W., Room 1024, Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates.
The SEC also maintains a web site that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about
issuers, like Clearnet, who file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is www.sec.gov.
You can also inspect reports, proxy statements and other information about Clearnet at the offices of
NASDAQ, 33 Whitehall Street, New York, NY 10004.
Clearnet has filed with the SEC a Solicitation/Recommendation on Schedule 14 regarding the offers. You
may obtain a copy of the Schedule 14 (and any amendments to that document) in the manner described above.
We filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-10 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 in
connection with the registration of the TELUS Non-Voting Shares being offered in the Offers. You may obtain
copies of the Form F-10 (and any amendments to that document) in the manner described above.
The SEC and Canadian provincial securities laws allow us to ‘‘incorporate by reference’’ information into
these Offers to Purchase and Circular which means that we can disclose important information to you by
referring you to another document filed separately with provincial securities commissions or other similar
authorities in Canada. The information incorporated by reference is deemed to be part of these Offers to
Purchase and Circular except for any information superseded by information contained directly in these Offers
to Purchase and Circular. These Offers to Purchase and Circular incorporate by reference the documents set
forth below that were previously filed with the provincial securities commissions or other similar authorities in
Canada. These documents contain important information about TELUS and its financial condition.
(a) TELUS’ Annual Information Form dated March 17, 2000;
(b) the management proxy circular of TELUS dated March 20, 2000 in connection with the annual meeting
of shareholders held on May 3, 2000, other than the Sections entitled ‘‘Report on Executive
Compensation’’ and ‘‘Performance Graph’’;
(c) the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of TELUS for the three months ended
March 31, 2000 and for the six months ended June 30, 2000; and
(d) the material change reports of TELUS dated March 21, 2000, April 10, 2000, June 8, 2000 and
August 30, 2000.
Any documents of the type referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding confidential material change
reports) filed by us with a securities commission or similar authority in Canada after the date of these Offers to
Purchase and Circular and prior to the expiration of the offers shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
in and form an integral part of these Offers to Purchase and Circular.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE ARE AVAILABLE FROM US WITHOUT
CHARGE UPON REQUEST TO OUR INFORMATION AGENT GEORGESON SHAREHOLDER
COMMUNICATIONS INC., 17 STATE STREET, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10004, TOLL FREE AT
1-800-223-2064. IF YOU REQUEST ANY INCORPORATED DOCUMENTS FROM US, WE WILL MAIL
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