Broadcasting - Staff Letter addressed to Stephen Schmidt (TELUS Communications Inc.)
Gatineau, 4 September 2025
Application: 2025-0236-9
BY E-MAIL
Stephen Schmidt
Vice-President - Telecom Policy & Chief Regulatory Legal Counsel
Telecom Policy & Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communications Inc.
stephen.schmidt@telus.com
Subject: Request for Clarification - Part 1 Undue Preference application by TELUS (2025-0236-9)
Stephen Schmidt:
In order to analyze the above-mentioned Undue Preference allegation submitted by TELUS Communications Inc. (TELUS) on 25 April 2025, CRTC staff is kindly asking you to respond to the following:
- Do you have any contractual agreements with programming service providers to distribute programming, while also leasing that company’s network infrastructure? If you do, who are they with?
- What information must be provided by TELUS to meet Bell’s # # to distribute Bell programming? Please be specific, including the requirements necessary to demonstrate that content is delivered solely over a private managed network (i.e. not public internet).
- Do you use other infrastructure not owned or operated by TELUS Communications Inc. anywhere else in Canada to operate a BDU?
- It appears that Telus is offering programming in Quebec. Please confirm if Telus is offering programming in Quebec, Ontario and Eastern Canada (separately), and please provide details of programming distributed on a linear basis.
- List Bell’s programming distributed by TELUS in Quebec, Ontario and Eastern Canada (separately), from 2019-2025.
- Specify the locations where Bell programming services are currently being distributed by TELUS on a linear basis in Quebec and Ontario. Please include, if applicable, which entity owns the network infrastructure being utilized to distribute the programming.
- Provide a definition of “Leased Network Service Area”, including the regions in which it is located and whether Bell’s programming is currently being distributed over any portion of it, on a linear basis.
We recognize that some information may be considered confidential or competitively sensitive, and in those instances, as set out in Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin 2010-961, Procedures for filing confidential information and requesting its disclosure in Commission proceedings, you may designate that information as confidential. An abridged version of the document involved is required, accompanied by reasons, as well as any supporting documents explaining why the disclosure of the designated information would not be in the public interest, including why the specific direct harm that would be likely to result from the disclosure would outweigh the public interest.
We ask that you file your responses to the questions before or by 12 September 2025.
If you have questions regarding this letter, you can contact us by email at differends-disputes@crtc.gc.ca or by calling Martin Joly, Manager Alternative Dispute Resolution, Broadcasting at 613-290-0438.
Sincerely,
Jonathon Greenberg
Senior Policy Analyst, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Broadcasting
c.c.:
Pye, Daniel, daniel.pye@crtc.gc.ca
Joly, Martin, martin.joly@crtc.gc.ca
O’Toole, Kathleen, Kathleen, Kathleen.O'Toole@crtc.gc.ca
Moreau, Julie, Julie.moreau@crtc.gc.ca
Greenberg, Jonathon Jonathon.greenberg@crtc.gc.ca
Differends-disputes@crtc.gc.ca
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