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Letter
Ottawa, 25 July 2011
Our reference: 8663-T7-200909640
BY E-MAIL
Ms. Nathalie MacDonald
Vice President, Regulatory Matters
EastLink
6080 Young Street
Suite 801
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3K 5M3
Regulatory.Matters@corp.eastlink.ca
- and -
Mr Robert Van Aaken
General Manager
Tuckersmith Communications Co-operative Limited
40023 Kippen Road
Kippen, Ontario
N0M 2E0
robtcc@tcc.on.ca
RE: Tuckersmith’s local competition implementation plan for EastLink
Dear Sir and Madam:
In a letter dated 20 May 2011, Bragg Communications Inc., carrying on business as EastLink (EastLink), informed the Commission and Tuckersmith Communications Co-operative Limited (Tuckersmith) that it is still interested in entering Tuckersmith’s territory as a competitive local exchange carrier in the exchange of Bayfield, Ontario.
Based on the process established by the Commission, as amended, Tuckersmith was to file its implementation plan and other required information with the Commission, serving a copy to EastLink, by 25 July 2011. The Commission has received Tuckersmith’s implementation plan, and the plan was posted on the Commission’s website on 21 July 2011.
This letter is sent to remind EastLink and Tuckersmith about the process that was set out in the Commission staff letter of 5 May 2011, which stated that the small ILECs’ updated implementation plans would be treated as applications pursuant to section 22 of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure (Rules of Procedure).
In particular, pursuant to the Rules of Procedure, EastLink (the respondent) may file an answer with the Commission and serve that answer on Tuckersmith (the applicant) no later than 22 August 2011. Any interested person may file an intervention with respect to the application no later than 22 August 2011. Tuckersmith may file, with the Commission, a reply to any answer or intervention no later than 1 September 2011 and serve that reply on EastLink and the interveners to whom Tuckersmith is responding.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by
Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs
Telecommunications
cc: Laurie Ventura, CRTC, (819) 997-4589, laurie.ventura@crtc.gc.ca
Sylvie Labbé, CRTC, (819) 953-4945, sylvie.labbe@crtc.gc.ca
