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Letter

File No.: 8180-8/00

Ottawa, 5 June 2000

BY FACSIMILE

Mr. Joe G. Church
President
Wispra Networks Inc.
100 Alexis-Nihon
Suite 593
St-Laurent, Quebec
H4M 2P1

Dear Mr. Church:

RE: CLEC Registration of Wispra Networks Inc.

  1. This is in response to your letter dated 15 February 2000.
  2. Wispra Networks Inc. ("Wispra Networks") expressed its intent to enter into the local exchange telephone market and offer local switched services in Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. It is noted that Wispra Networks provided information regarding how it has or intends to satisfy the requirements imposed on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) in Telecom Decision CRTC 97-8, Local Competition, 1 May 1997 (Decision 97-8).
  3. Wispra Networks is recognized as having met CLEC requirements at this time sufficient to make the further arrangements necessary to allow it to provide local switched services. However, Wispra Networks is reminded that it may not offer services to the public as a CLEC until all the conditions of Decision 97-8 have been satisfied.
  4. You will find attached for your convenience or reference a table prepared by Commission staff summarizing the CLEC obligations defined in Decision 97-8. This table is an unofficial document which is intended as a convenience only, not to be relied upon as an official version of Decision 97-8.
  5. In addition, please be advised that, if you offer your own international toll services to the public, for which you or your agent bills the customer, you are obliged to obtain a licence for the provision of basic international telecommunications services. The Commission's determinations regarding the classes of telecommunications service providers that are required to obtain a licence to provide international services and the conditions attached to such licences can be found in Regulatory Regime for the Provision of International Telecommunications Services, Telecom Decision CRTC 98-17, 1 October 1998, and in the Commission's letter of 19 December 1999 with regard to the Industry Task Force on International Contribution Issues - Final Consensus Report.
  6. Wispra Networks may be subject to further obligations that the Commission may impose on CLECs from time to time.

Yours sincerely,

Campbell Laidlaw
Director
Competition Implementation

Attachment

c.c.: G. Jessop, Secretary of the Canadian Numbering Consortium Inc.
J.R. Sarrazin, President, Canadian LNP Consortium Inc.
A. De Caigny, Central Fund Administrator
S. Whitehead, Secretary of the Central Fund Administration Consortium
CRTC Canadian Numbering Administrator
R. Gauthier, CRTC, (819) 953-8608

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