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Telecom Public Notice CRTC 98-27

  Ottawa, 24 September 1998
 

TÉLÉBEC LTÉE AND QUÉBEC-TÉLÉPHONE - FORBEARANCE FROM THE REGULATION OF PACKET DATA SERVICES

  File Nos.: 8640-T5-02/98; 8640-Q1-02/98
  1. On 5 February 1998, Télébec ltée (Télébec) filed an application pursuant to section 34 of the Telecommunications Act (the Act), requesting forbearance from the regulation of the company's Datapac, Hyperpac, future X.25 packet data and frame relay services. In particular, Télébec requested that the Commission refrain from exercising all powers and performing all duties under sections 24 (in part), 25, 29, 31 and subsections 27(1), 27(5) and 27(6) of the Act.
  2. Télébec also requested forbearance from the regulation of the company's current and future dedicated interexchange private line (IXPL) services.
  3. On 14 April 1998, Québec-Téléphone filed an application requesting forbearance from the regulation of the company's Datapac, Hyperpac, future X.25 packet data and frame relay services. Specifically, Québec-Téléphone requested that the Commission refrain from exercising all powers and performing all duties under sections 24 (in part), 25, 29 and 31 and subsections 27(1), 27(5) and 27(6) of the Act.
  4. The Commission seeks comment regarding the appropriateness of forbearing pursuant to section 34 of the Act with respect to the companies' Datapac, Hyperpac, future X.25 packet data and frame relay services. The Commission notes that, in Review of Regulatory Framework, Telecom Decision CRTC 94-19, 16 September 1994, it detailed the factors that it would consider when assessing whether a particular market is or will be sufficiently competitive for the Commission to refrain from regulation. These factors should be addressed by parties in their submissions.
  5. The Commission notes that in Télébec ltée and Québec-Téléphone - Forbearance from the Regulation of Interexchange Private Line Services, Telecom Public Notice CRTC 98-26, also issued today, it is seeking comments on that part of Télébec's application related to its request for forbearance from the regulation of the company's current and future dedicated IXPL services.
  PROCEDURE
  6. The record of this proceeding may be examined at the CRTC's office at the following address:
  Central Building
Les Terrasses de la Chaudière
1 Promenade du Portage
Room 201
Hull, Quebec
  7. The application may also be examined during normal business hours at any of the company's business offices or at the office of the CRTC in the following location:
  Place Montréal Trust
1800 McGill College Avenue
Suite 1920
Montréal, Quebec
  8. Other documents forming part of the record of this proceeding may, as noted above, be examined at the Commission office in Hull, or will be made available in the above Regional Office promptly upon request.
  9. A copy of Télébec's application may also be obtained by any interested person upon request directed to Mr. Michel Gilbert, Director General - Regulatory Affairs, Télébec ltée, 7151, rue Jean-Talon Est, Anjou, Québec, H1M 3N8, fax: (514) 493-5379.
  10. A copy of Québec-Téléphone's application may also be obtained by any interested person upon request directed to Ms. Dorothée Biron, Chief of Corporate Affairs and Secretary, Québec-Téléphone, P.O. Box 903, 9, rue Jules-A.-Brillant, Rimouski, Quebec, G5L 7C9, fax: (418) 722-5949.
  11. Persons wishing to comment on these applications (interveners) may write to Mrs. Laura M. Talbot-Allan, Secretary General, CRTC, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N2, fax:  (819) 953-0795 by 26 October 1998. A copy of your comments should be sent to Télébec and to Québec-Téléphone at the above-mentioned addresses.
  12. Télébec and Québec-Téléphone may file a reply to any comments, serving copies on the interveners, by 9 November 1998.
  13. In addition to hard copy filings, parties are encouraged to file with the Commission electronic versions of their submissions in accordance with the Commission's Interim Telecom Guidelines for the Handling of Machine-Readable Files, dated 30 November 1995. The Commission's Internet email address for electronically filed documents is public.telecom@crtc.gc.ca. Electronically filed documents can be accessed at the Commission's Internet site at http://www.crtc.gc.ca.
  14. When a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely mailed, by that date.
  This document is available in alternative format upon request.
  Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General
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