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Letter
Ottawa, 9 March 2009
File No. 8661-C122-200904286
8638-C12-200905010
By E-mail
Dennis E. Henry
Vice-President - Regulatory & Government Affairs and Chief of Privacy
Bell Aliant Regional Communications, L.P.
Floor 19
160 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2C4
regulatory@bell.aliant.ca
Mirko Bibic
Senior Vice-President - Regulatory & Government Affairs
Bell Canada
Floor 19
160 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2C4
Bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Dear Mr. Henry and Mr. Bibic:
Re: Follow-up Requests to review and vary directives in Telecom Decision 2008-17 related to the provision of central-office-based wholesale ADSL access service and aggregated ADSL access service, Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-34 and Cybersurf Corp. and Alberta 1356382 LTD Part VII application requesting cable plant unbundling
By letter dated 3 March 2009, TELUS Communications Company (TELUS) requested that the Commission combine the follow-up proceeding initiated by Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-34 (Policy CRTC 2009-34) and the Cybersurf Corp. and Alberta 1356382 LTD Part VII application requesting cable plant unbundling (Part VII requesting cable plant unbundling). TELUS submitted that there was considerable overlap between the issues being considered in the above proceedings.
On 5 March 2009, MTS Allstream Inc. (MTS Allstream) and Bragg Communications Inc., Cogeco Cable Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Media Inc., on behalf of Videotron Ltd. (collectively, the Cable Carriers) submitted that TELUS' request should be denied.
By letter dated 9 March 2009, Telus' letter was denied. On the same date, Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership, and Bell Canada (collectively the Bell Companies) filed submissions in support of TELUS' request.
Commission staff have carefully reviewed the Bell Companies' submissions and consider that they are not sufficiently persuasive to change the determination to deny TELUS' request. In this regard, Commission staff considers that the Bell Companies' submissions are not materially different from Telus' submissions.
Yours sincerely,
Original Signed by
Paul Godin
Director General, Competition, Costing & Tariffs
Telecommunications
cc:
TELUS - regulatory.affairs@telus.com
MTS Allstream Inc. - iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Bragg Communications Inc. - regulatory.matters@corp.eastlink.ca
Cogeco Cable Inc. - yves.mayrand@cogeco.com
Quebecor Media Inc. - trepanier.edouard@quebecor.com
Rogers Communications Inc. - ken.engelhart@rci.rogers.com
Shaw Communications Inc. - jean.brazeau@sjrb.ca
Cybersurf Corp. - marcel.mercia@cybersurf.com
Attachment :
Commission staff letter dated 9 March 2009
