What is Telus?
{{Infobox Company | company_name = The Telus Communications Company | company_logo = Telus-Logo.svg | company_type = [[Public company|Public]]<br />{{Toronto Stock Exchange|T}}<br />{{nyse|TU}} | foundation = 1999 with the merger of<br /> Telus (Alberta) and BC Tel | location = [[Burnaby]], [[British Columbia]] | key_people = [[Darren Entwistle]], [[President]] and [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]] | industry = [[Telecommunications]] | revenue = [[Canadian dollar|C$]]9.074 billion | operating_income = [[Canadian dollar|C$]]1.974 billion | net_income = [[Canadian dollar|C$]]1.257 billion | num_employees = 39,000 (2007) | homepage = {{url|http://www.telus.com/}} }} '''Telus''' ([[TSX]]: T, T.A; [[NYSE]]: TU) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] company that provides phone, internet, television, and cellular phone service. They are a very large company, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Canada. Telus logo is stylized as TELUS. Telus' head office is in [[Burnaby]], [[British Columbia]]. == History == Telus was made from a [[merger]] of BCTel, the main phone company in [[British Columbia]] and Alberta Government Telephones, better known as AGT. AGT was owned by the [[government]] of Alberta. AGT wanted to separate from the government and formed a company called Telus in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alberta Government Telephones (AGT)|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/telephone/era/agt.html|access-date=2022-05-03|website=wayback.archive-it.org|archive-date=2010-12-08|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208161839/http://www.abheritage.ca/telephone/era/agt.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDiH0zLUamIC&dq=alberta+government+telephones&pg=PA35|title=Deregulating Telecommunications: U.S. and Canadian Telecommunications, 1840-1997|last=Wilson|first=Kevin G.|date=2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-9825-7|language=en}}</ref> After that, they combined with BCTel to form the current Telus company in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hunter, Jenni