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Ottawa, 13 March 1995
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Telecom Order CRTC 95-301
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IN THE MATTER OF an application by Stentor Resource Centre Inc. (Stentor) under Tariff Notice 74 dated 15 November 1994, filed on behalf of all the federally regulated Stentor owners, for approval of revisions to the Advantage 800 and Advantage 800 Entry services.
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WHEREAS Stentor filed the application on an ex parte basis;
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WHEREAS, under Telecom Order CRTC 94-1413 dated 5 December 1994, the Commission approved the application on an interim basis;
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WHEREAS the Commission received comments from Unitel Communications Inc. (Unitel) on 6 January 1995 and reply comments from Stentor on 23 January 1995;
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WHEREAS, among other things, Unitel was concerned that Stentor has not made 800 Direct Access Lines (DALs) and Virtual Facilities Groups (VFGs) available to competitors on an equivalent basis;
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WHEREAS Unitel submitted that competitors are placed at a competitive disadvantage because they must utilize other higher priced local service alternatives to provide the toll equivalent service in the market;
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WHEREAS Unitel submitted that 800 DALs and VFGs are bottleneck components and, for the purposes of the imputation test, should be imputed at equivalent tariffed rates;
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WHEREAS Unitel noted that without access to VFGs, its 800 traffic cannot be terminated on a Centrex ACD platform in the same manner as Stentor´s Advantage 800 traffic;
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WHEREAS Stentor submitted that Unitel may provide 800 DALs utilizing Unitel´s own facilities;
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WHEREAS Stentor noted that there is not currently a tariff to provide competitive 800 service connections to Centrex;
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WHEREAS Stentor noted that Bell Canada is considering filing revised Centrex tariffs to introduce a specific competitive 800 service connection for Centrex and that BC TEL and Manitoba Telephone System will also address this issue at a later date;
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WHEREAS the Commission considers that DALs, being local private lines between a customer's premises and a toll provider's network, are not a bottleneck service;
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WHEREAS the Commission considers that 800 service connection for Centrex is a bottleneck service;
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WHEREAS the Commission notes that in its reply comments Stentor conducted an imputation test using a rate of $45 per Advantage 800 DAL and VFG access per month; and
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WHEREAS the Commission has given consideration to the application in light of all the information and comments received -
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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
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1. The proposed tariff revisions submitted by Stentor under Tariff Notice 74 are given final approval.
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2. Each of the federally regulated members of Stentor is directed to file a tariff for competitive 800 service connections for Centrex within 30 days of the date of this Order.
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3. After the Commission has made a determination with respect to the tariff for competitive 800 service connections for Centrex, each of the federally regulated members of Stentor are directed to, for the purposes of future Advantage 800 imputation tests, impute at equivalent tariffed rates the competitive 800 calling connection.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General |
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