Letter

Ottawa, 20 June 2008

File No.  8622-S9-200806440

By email

Mr. Jean Brazeau
Vice President
Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs
Shaw Communications Inc.
630-3rd Avenue SW, Suite 900
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 4L4 

Regulatory@sjrb.ca
jean.brazeau@sjrb.ca  

Dear Mr. Brazeau: 

Re:Part VII application by Shaw Cablesystems Limited regarding the sale byThunder Bay Telephone of its Partial Systems Offering Plant 

On 1 May 2008, the Commission received a Part VII application by Shaw Cablesystems Limited regarding the sale by Thunder Bay Telephone of its Partial Systems Offering Plant. 

In Service standards for the disposition of telecommunications applications, Telecom Circular CRTC 2006-11, 7 December 2006, the Commission stated that it would categorize Part VII applications into two types: Type 1 applications that generally do not involve multiple parties or raise significant policy issues and Type 2 applications that do involve multiple parties and/or raise significant policy issues 

The Commission also adopted the following service standards for Part VII applications: 

• Type 1 Part VII applications – 90 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within four months of the close-of-record; and

• Type 2 Part VII applications – 85 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within eight months of the close-of-record.

The Commission stated that it would inform applicants, by letter, within 10 days of the end of the comment period for applications, whether the application is considered to be a Type 1 or Type 2 application, and the applicable service standard. 

Commission staff has assessed the above application and considers it to be a Type 1 application.  Accordingly, it is expected that the Commission will issue interim or final determinations within 4 months of the close-of-record.  

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Mario Bertrand
Acting Director, Competition Implementation and Technology
Telecommunications 

cc: Rob Olenick, TBayTel
      rob.olenick@tbaytel.com            
     Jesslyn Mullaney (819) 953-5255
     Martin Brazeau (819) 997-3498