Ottawa, 17 September 2018
BY EMAIL
Mr. Dennis Béland
Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs, Telecommunications
Quebecor Media Inc.
612 St-Jacques Street, 15th Floor
Montreal, Quebec H3C 4M8
dennis.beland@quebecor.com
RE: Approval of emergency notification of shortened interval for activation of one CO Code by Videotron
Dear Mr. Béland:
On 14 September 2018, Videotron Ltd. (Videotron) requested that Commission staff approve an emergency notification for Central Office (CO) Code 438-630, in Montreal, to make the effective date 1 October 2018, which is 17 days rather than 66 days after the received date of the Part 1 Forms, as specified in the Canadian Central Office Code (NXX) Assignment Guideline (the Guideline).
Videotron stated that it required the additional growth CO code due to a surge in wireless service activations in excess of near-term forecasted levels in the Montreal exchange.
Commission staff considers Videotron’s request for an emergency notification for a shortened interval to be reasonable in the circumstance.
Videotron is reminded that, as per the Guideline, carriers are to make their best effort to implement the new codes in the shorter timeframe, but are not obligated to implement CO codes in their networks in less than the normal minimum 45 day activation interval and, consequently, call blocking, routing errors and/or billing errors could occur.
Sincerely,
Original signed by
Michel Murray
Director, Dispute Resolution & Regulatory Implementation
Telecommunications Sector
c.c.: Glen Brown, Canadian Number Administrator, browng@leidos.ca
Suresh Khare, Canadian Number Administrator, khares@leidos.ca
Fiona Clegg, Canadian Number Administrator, cleggf@leidos.ca
Natalie Lessard, Canadian Number Administrator, lessardn@leidos.ca
David Comrie, Canadian Number Administrator, comried@leidos.ca
Valerie Plaskacz, CRTC, valerie.plaskacz@crtc.gc.ca
Joseph Cabrera, CRTC, joseph.cabrera@crtc.gc.ca
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