Telecom Public Notice

Ottawa, 31 March 1999

Telecom Public Notice CRTC 99-11

BC TEL - PART VII APPLICATION TO RELIEVE BC TEL OF THE REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE UNBUNDLED COMPONENTS FOR ACCESS BY COMPETITORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AIN SERVICE FEATURES

File No.: 8622-B1-01/99

1.On 22 January 1999, BC TEL filed an application under Part VII of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure requesting that it be relieved of the requirement to provide unbundled components for access by competitors for the purpose of providing AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) service features.

2.Parties may submit comments on BC TEL's application by 30 April 1999. BC Tel may submit any reply comments by 17 May 1999.

3.Parties wishing to participate in this proceeding must file a notice of intention to participate with the Commission by writing to the Secretary General, CRTC, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N2, Fax: (819) 953-0795, by 30 April 1999. Parties are to indicate in the notice their Internet email address, if available. If parties do not have access to the Internet, they are to indicate in their notice whether they wish to receive disk versions of hard copy filings. The Commission will issue a complete list of parties and their mailing addresses (including Internet email addresses if available), identifying those parties who wish to receive disk versions.

4.BC TEL's application can be examined at any of the company's business offices or at the offices of the CRTC at the following locations:

Central Building
Les Terrasses de la Chaudière
1 Promenade du Portage
Room G-5
Hull, Quebec

580 Hornby Street
Suite 530
Vancouver, British Columbia

5.Other documents forming part of the record of this proceeding may be examined at the CRTC office in Hull or will be made available at the Vancouver Regional Office promptly upon request.

6.Copies of BC TEL's application may be obtained by any interested person upon request directed to the company by writing to Ms. Sandra Hertz, Director - Regulatory Matters, BC TEL, 18th Floor, 3777 Kingsway, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5H 3Z7, Fax: (604) 430-9653.

7.Where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely sent, by that date.

8.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.

Secretary General

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