Telecom Order

Ottawa, 10 January 1997

Telecom Order CRTC 97-15

IN THE MATTER OF an application by Bell Canada (Bell) under Tariff Notice 5884 dated 4 December 1996, for approval of tariff revisions regrouping the Port Robinson, Ontario exchange from Rate Group 9 to Rate Group 10.

WHEREAS telephone exchanges are classified, for rating purposes, into various rate groups according to the total telephone-number count in use in the local calling area of each exchange;

WHEREAS this method of establishing rates for local exchange telephone service is based on the principle that the value of service to the user increases with an increase in the number of telephones that can be called without paying long distance charges;

WHEREAS this method of establishing rates also ensures that subscribers in exchanges of approximately the same size, according to telephone-number count, pay the same rates and thus enables the company to comply with the terms of subsection 27(2) of the Telecommunications Act, which prohibits unjust discrimination or undue preference as between groups of subscribers;

WHEREAS, by an application dated 4 December 1996, Bell requested approval of tariff revisions regrouping the Port Robinson, Ontario exchange from Rate Group 9 to Rate Group 10;

WHEREAS such regrouping does not involve any change in the rates charged for either rate grouping;

WHEREAS the total telephone-number count, for rate grouping purposes, of the Port Robinson, Ontario exchange has exceeded the upper limits of the rate group classification by more than one percent (1%) for two consecutive months;

WHEREAS the company has conformed to the conditions stipulated in Telecom Order CRTC 79-387 dated 19 September 1979, as amended by Telecom Order CRTC 94-55 dated 21 January 1994, in respect of telephone exchange rate grouping in the company's service area; and

WHEREAS such rate grouping changes are in conformity with subsection 27(2) of the Telecommunications Act -

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

The proposed tariff revisions submitted by Bell under Tariff Notice 5884, to become effective on 25 January 1997, are approved.

Allan J. Darling
Secretary General