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share-based compensation - Weighted average assumptions (Details) - TELUS Corporation share options | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2026 Y $ / shares
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items] |
Share option award fair value (per share option) | $ / shares | $ 0.85
Risk-free interest rate | 2.90%
Expected lives 1 (years) | Y | 4.9
Expected volatility | 18.90%
Dividend yield | 9.10%
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Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items] |
Exercise period | 10 years

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- Definition The expected volatility of the share price used to calculate the fair value of the share options granted. Expected volatility is a measure of the amount by which a price is expected to fluctuate during a period. The measure of volatility used in option pricing models is the annualised standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a period of time. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2025-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2025-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2025-03-27 + Details
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- Definition The option life of share options granted. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2025-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2025-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2025-03-27 + Details
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- Definition The implied yield currently available on zero-coupon government issues of the country in whose currency the exercise price for share options granted is expressed, with a remaining term equal to the expected term of the option being valued (based on the option's remaining contractual life and taking into account the effects of expected early exercise). [Refer: Government [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2025-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2025-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2025-03-27 + Details
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- Definition The weighted average share price used as input to the option pricing model to calculate the fair value of share options granted. [Refer: Option pricing model [member]; Weighted average [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2025-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2025-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2025-03-27 + Details
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