We do like Telus more than BCE. The company is in higher growth verticals such as Health, Agriculture, International etc. It is certainly set up to perform better than BCE moving forward.
The issue we have here now is that BCE is trading at some pretty big lows due to the fact many investors believe the dividend is at risk and growth will stall for the company. Telus is much more expensive now on an overall valuation basis.
BCE is a turnaround story at this point. It needs to clean up its operations and start generating more cash flow. It's going on the third consecutive year of the company not being able to cover the dividend with free cash flows and it is clearly starting to worry investors.
If it does turn things around, you could see a rebound in price. For me, I own Telus primarily because I'd rather just invest in the company that is currently performing, rather than one that needs to turn things around to perform.