Letter

Ottawa, 21 December 2006

Our File No.: 8622-B2-200602773

BY E-MAIL

Mr. Dennis Béland
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Telecommunications
Vidéotron ltée
465 McGill Street , 5 th Floor
Montreal, Quebec
H2Y 4A6

beland.dennis@quebecor.com
regaffairs@quebecor.com

Dear Mr. Béland:

Re:   Part VII Application by Bell Canada to request Vidéotron ltée to discontinue its current practice of requiring customers who subscribe to Vidéotron's cable telephony service to discontinue competitors' high-speed Internet service

Vidéotron ltée (Vidéotron) is requested to respond to the questions set out in the Attachment by 12 January 2007 .

Yours sincerely, 

'Original signed by L. Fancy'

Lynne Fancy
A/Director, Competition Implementation and Technology
Telecommunications

cc:    Bell Canada, bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Attach.

ATTACHMENT

1.    Provide on a confidential basis the detailed costs per installation to Vidéotron of installing a network interface device at a customer's premises where such a device is not present, at the time that Vidéotron would be installing its cable telephony service at the customer location and the customer has terminated all services with Bell Canada and switched to Vidéotron.

2.    Provide the costs of the network interface device that could be installed in a customer's premise as described in question 1.

3.    Provide on a confidential basis an estimate of the number of customers on a yearly basis over the next five years that Vidéotron expects will take its cable telephony service and at the same time terminate all services with Bell Canada when switching to Vidéotron.

4.    Provide on a confidential basis the number of:

a)   total households passed in Vidéotron's territory;

b)   cable subscribers for 2005 and 2006; and

c)   subscribers to Vidéotron's cable telephony service for 2005 and 2006.

5.    If the Commission were to rule that a network interface device should be installed between Bell Canada's network and the inside wire, provide Vidéotron's view with supporting rationale on the appropriateness of Bell Canada and Vidéotron sharing the costs for the installation of the network interface device and the cost of the device