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Ottawa, 28 July 1994
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Telecom Public Notice CRTC 94-34
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INTRODUCTION OF 800 CARRIER ACCESS MULTI-CARRIER SELECTION CAPABILITY
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References:
AGT Tariff Notice 512
BC TEL Tariff Notice 3109
Bell Tariff Notice 5208
Island Tel Tariff Notice 329
MT&T Tariff Notice 458
NBTel Tariff Notice 360
Newfoundland Tel Tariff Notice 381
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On 30 May 1994, AGT Limited, BC TEL, Bell Canada, The Island Telephone Company Limited, Maritime Tel and Tel Limited, The New Brunswick Telephone Company Limited and Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited (the telephone companies) filed, pursuant to Telecom Order CRTC 94-302, 29 March 1994 (Order 94-302), proposed tariff revisions providing for, among other things, the introduction of 800 Carrier Access Multi-carrier Selection Capability (MCSC).
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The telephone companies stated that the proposed tariffs are based on the call-routing criteria identified by the Commission in Order 94-302, as follows: (1) originating Numbering Plan Area (NPA), (2) originating NPA-NNX, (3) originating telephone number, (4) time-of-day; (5) day-of-week, (6) specific date, and (7) a percentage of a subscriber's eligible calling. The telephone companies also indicated that they had developed an alternative version of MCSC, without the originating telephone number option, that could be implemented more quickly and at less cost. The telephone companies stated that Stentor Resource Centre Inc. (Stentor) would file a resource cost study on their behalf, supporting the alternative approach.
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On 17 June 1994, Stentor filed the alternative proposal for providing MCSC, along with a supporting resource cost study, on behalf of the telephone companies.
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The Commission invites comment on the applications and on the alternative proposal filed by Stentor. The telephone companies and Stentor submitted that the review of the various filings would be facilitated if interested parties, where practicable, would address their comments to Stentor, rather than to each of its member telephone companies. The Commission agrees, and directs interested parties to address any interrogatories or comments to Stentor, except where they pertain exclusively to a particular telephone company.
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Procedure
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1. The addresses to be used in this proceeding are:
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Mr. Allan J. Darling
Secretary General
CRTC
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N2
Fax: 819-953-0795
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Mr. Bohdan S. Romaniuk
Vice President
Regulatory Affairs
AGT Limited
Floor 32-G, 10020 - 100 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 0N5
Fax: 403-493-6577
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Ms. Sandra Hertz
Director
Regulatory Matters
BC TEL
3777 Kingsway
18th Floor
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5H 3Z7
Fax: 604-430-9653
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Mr. B.A. Courtois
Vice-President
Corporate & Legal Affairs
Bell Canada
105 Hôtel-de-Ville Street
6th Floor
Hull, Quebec
J8X 4H7
Fax: 819-778-3437
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Ms. Wendy J. Paquette
Regulatory & Government Relations Manager
The Island Telephone Company Limited
69 Belvedere Avenue
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
C1A 7M1
Fax: 902-566-4665
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Ms. Wendy J. Paquette
Regulatory & Government Relations
Manager
Maritime Tel and Tel Limited
P.O. Box 880, Station M
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2W3
Fax: 902-421-1538
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Mr. Steve J. Palmer
Manager
Pricing and Regulatory Matters
The New Brunswick Telephone Company Limited
One Brunswick Square (BS19)
P.O. Box 1430
Saint John, New Brunswick
E2L 4K2
Fax: 506-694-2473
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Mr. Donald R. Tarrant
General Manager
Regulatory Matters
Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited
Fort William Building
P.O. Box 2110
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5H6
Fax: 709-739-3122
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Mr. R.J. Davis
Acting Director, Tariffs
Stentor Resource Centre Inc.
160 Elgin Street
Floor 22
Ottawa, Ontario
K1G 3J4
Fax: 613-781-35142.
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The applications may be examined at the offices of the CRTC in the following locations:
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Central Building
Les Terrasses de la Chaudière
1 Promenade du Portage
Room 201
Hull, Quebec
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Bank of Commerce Building
1809 Barrington Street
Suite 1007
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Place Montréal Trust
1800 McGill College Avenue
Suite 1920
Montréal, Quebec
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Standard Life Centre
Suite 820
121 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario
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275 Portage Avenue
Suite 1810
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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800 Burrard Street
Suite 1380
Vancouver, British Columbia
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3. Persons wishing to participate in this proceeding must notify the Commission of their intention to do so by writing to the Commission at the address noted above by 25 August 1994. The Commission will issue a complete list of parties and their mailing addresses.
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4. Parties may address interrogatories to Stentor and, where necessary, to the telephone companies. Any such interrogatories are to be filed with the Commission and served on the party or parties in question by 25 August 1994.
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5. Interrogatory responses are to be filed with the Commission and served on all parties by 15 September 1994.
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6. Requests by parties for further responses to their interrogatories, specifying in each case why a further response is both relevant and necessary, and requests for public disclosure of information for which confidentiality has been claimed, setting out the reasons for disclosure, must be filed with the Commission and served on the party or parties in question by 22 September 1994.
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7. Written responses to requests for further responses and for public disclosure must be filed with the Commission and served on the party making the request by 29 September 1994.
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8. The Commission will issue a determination with respect to requests for further responses and for disclosure as soon as possible. The Commission intends to direct that any information to be provided pursuant to that determination be filed with the Commission and served on all parties by 10 October 1994.
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9. Parties may file comments with the Commission, serving copies on all other parties, by 19 October 1994.
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10. Parties may file reply comments with the Commission, serving copies on all other parties, by 31 October 1994.
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11. Where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely mailed, by that date.
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In light of the comment period specified in this Public Notice, the Commission expects to issue a ruling with respect to the subject applications in the fourth quarter of 1994.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General
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