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Telecom Public Notice CRTC 98-1
Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 1998-1
  Ottawa, 22 January 1998
  ISSUE NO. 1

SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK

30 MARCH 1998, 9:00 A.M.
  The Commission will hold a public hearing commencing on 30 March 1998, at the Saint John Hilton, One Market Square, Saint John, New Brunswick, to consider the following application pursuant to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts:
  ATLANTIC REGION
  1. NEW BRUNSWICK
  Application (199709375) by THE NEW BRUNSWICK TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED (NBTel), P.O. Box 1430, One Brunswick Square, Saint John, New Brunswick, E2L 4K2, for a broadcasting licence to carry on a (cable) distribution undertaking to serve the Province of New Brunswick.
  While NBTel has applied for a regional licence to serve the Province of New Brunswick, it initially intends to deploy its services in select locations within the Province.
  NEW BRUNSWICK
  In each market served, the applicant will provide both French- and English-language television services in its basic package. All priority television and radio programming services, a community channel, the Cable Public Affairs Channel, the '4 + 1' U.S. network signals, ASN, TFO, TVA, Télévision Quatre Saisons (TQS), Télé-Québec - and several Canadian specialty services will be carried as part of the basic service.
  All Canadian licensed specialty and pay television services, suitable for the New Brunswick market, will be distributed. As well, Pay Audio and Video-on-Demand services are presently under evaluation.
  NBTel has claimed confidentiality for certain aspects of its application and has provided its justifications for those claims as well as abridged versions of that information. Generally, NBTel has claimed confidentiality with respect to its deployment plans, and certain projectins of revenue, expense and penetration information, the disclosure of which it claims would cause it specific and direct harm.
  Interested parties may file requests, serving a copy on NBTel, for public disclosure of information for which confidentiality has been claimed, setting out the reasons for disclosure, by 2 February 1998.
  NBTel may file its written responses to requests for disclosure, serving a copy on the parties making the requests, by 9 February 1998.
  NEW BRUNSWICK
  The Commission will issue a determination with respect to requests for disclosure as soon as possible.
  While NBTel did not file any specific applicatins under the Telecommunications Act, the Commission will be considering any implications under the Telecommunications Act of the company's proposals filed in its broadcasting application. For example, the Commission will consider (1) the appropriate regulatory treatment of the alphanumeric channel listing service, (2) applicability of section 36 of the Telecommunications Act, and (3) accounting and transfer pricing issues.
  Examination of application:
  NBTel Business Office/PhoneCentre
270 King Avenue
Bathurst, New Brunswick
  NBTel Business Office/PhoneCentre
13 Andrew Street
Campbellton, New Brunswick
  NBTel Business Office/PhoneCentre
443 St-Pierre Boulevard West
Caraquet, New Brunswick
  NBTel Business Office/PhoneCentre
32 St-François Street
Edmundston, New Brunswick
  NBTel Business Office
64 Allison Boulevard (Industrial Park)
Fredericton, New Brunswick
  NEW BRUNSWICK
  NBTel Phone Store
Regent Mall
1381 Regent Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick
  NBTel Payment Centre
19 Depres Road
Grand Falls, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
Champlain Place Shopping Centre
477 Paul Street
Dieppe, New Brunswick
  NBTel Business Office
Blue Cross Building, 7th Floor
644 Main Street
Moncton, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
524 King George Highway
Miramichi, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
Corner of Broad & Wasis Roads
Oromocto, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
McAllister Place Mall
519 Westmorland Road
Saint John, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
112 Milltown Boulevard
St. Stephen, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
27 Winter Street
Sussex, New Brunswick
  NBTel PhoneCentre
14, 3409 Principale Street
Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
  NEW BRUNSWICK
  NBTel PhoneCentre
106 Richmond Street
Woodstock, New Brunswick
  SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS
  PERSONS REQUIRING COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT SUCH AS ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES AND SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM THE COMMISSION AT LEAST TWENTY (20) DAYS BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC HEARING SO THAT THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.
  PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
  Intervention
  PLEASE NOTE THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE COMMISSION CANNOT ACCEPT INTERVENTIONS SENT BY ELECTRONIC MAIL
  IN ORDER TO HAVE YOUR INTERVENTION CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION AND PLACED ON THE PUBLIC FILE,
  · submit your original written intervention to the Secretary General of the Commission (CRTC, Ottawa, K1A 0N2). A true copy MUST be sent to the applicant and proof that this has been done must accompany the original intervention sent to the Commission;
  · the intervention must be received by the CRTC and by the applicant ON OR BEFORE the deadline date indicated below. The Commission cannot be held responsible for postal delays;
  · one may also communicate with the Commission:
- by telecopier: (819) 994-0218
  · your intervention must clearly identify the application. It must also include clear indication of whether you support or oppose the application, or, if you propose changes to it, include the facts and grounds therefor. In the event that the subject application is brought to the oral phase of the hearing, and should you wish to appear, your intervention must include a request to do so, preferably in the first paragraph of your letter, together with reasons as to why your written submission is not sufficient and why your appearance is necessary. The Commission will inform interveners whether their requests to appear are granted. All written interventions are considered by the Commission when it makes its decisions.
  To ensure the effective use of public hearing time, and consistent with the Commission's practice in similar proceedings, it may group the appearance of various interveners to particular applications at the same time.
  DEADLINE FOR INTERVENTION:
  5 March 1998
  EXAMINATION OF DOCUMENTS
DURING NORMAL OFFICE HOURS
  Documents are available:

°at the local address provided in this notice;
  and
°at the following Commission offices:
  Central Building
Les Terrasses de la Chaudière
1 Promenade du Portage, Room 201
Hull, Quebec
K1A 0N2
Tels: (819) 997-2429
TDD 994-0423
Telecopier: (819) 994-0218
  Bank of Commerce Building
Suite 1007
1809 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 3K8
Tels: (902) 426-7997
TDD 426-6997
Telecopier: (902) 426-2721
  Place Montréal Trust
1800 McGill College Avenue
Suite 1920
Montréal, Quebec
H3A 3J6
Tels: (514) 283-6607
TDD 283-8316
Telecopier: (514) 283-3689
  Kensington Building
Suite 1810
275 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 2B3
Tels: (204) 983-6306
TDD 983-8274
Telecopier: (204) 983-6317
  530 - 580 Hornby Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6C 3B6
Téls: (604) 666-2111
TDD 666-0778
Telecopier: (604) 666-8322
  CRTC regional offices not directly involved in this public hearing will also make documents available upon request by interested parties (normal delay: 48 hours).
  This document is available in alternative format upon request.
  Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General
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