309 2nd Street, S.W.

Medicine Hat. Alberta

T1A 4B2

Secretary General,

Canadian Radio -Television and Telecommunication Commission

Ottawa. Ontario K1A 0N2

September 6 2001

Dear Secretary General:

We wish to have our objection registered to the application by Telus for

an increase to residential consumers reaching the sum of $35 per month.

This enormous increase will put the residential phone out of the reach

of many Canadians. Many Canadians exist on low monthly incomes and the

phone is an important link to the outside worlds for them.

We note in the application that business customers will not be subject

to an added increase. We find this appalling as businesses can claim

their telephone cost as an expense of doing business. The residential

consumer does not have this luxury.

We note that Telus recently incurred huge costs as they expanded and

bought another company. It appears to us that this application is

somehow linked to this expansion and we are being asked to help finance

this venture of Telus.

We are shareholders of Telus and as such we do not wish this application

by Telus granted by the CRTC.

Yours sincerely,

James G. Swan, Veronica Swan.

Copy to Willie Greive Vice President, Regulatory Affairs Telus, via

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