ARCHIVED - Telecom Order CRTC 95-890
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Ottawa, 10 August 1995
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Telecom Order CRTC 95-890
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IN THE MATTER OF applications by Stentor Resource Centre Inc. (Stentor) under Tariff Notice 107, dated 6 February 1995 and Tariff Notices 108B and 124B, dated 16 June 1995, for revisions related to Advantage Preferred Service.
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WHEREAS Tariff Notice 107 was submitted to the Commission for ex parte consideration;
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WHEREAS under letter dated 6 April 1995 the Commission requested further information relating to the revisions proposed under Tariff Notice 107 and directed Stentor to place the filing on the public record;
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WHEREAS Stentor replied to the Commission's request for further information under letter dated 8 May 1995;
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WHEREAS Unitel Communications Inc. (Unitel) submitted comments under letter dated 6 June 1995;
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WHEREAS Stentor replied to Unitel's comments under letter dated 16 June 1995;
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WHEREAS in response to Commission interrogatories Stentor indicated that the estimated revenue per minute (ERPM) employed in the imputation test associated with Tariff Notice 107 is higher than that submitted previously despite the proposed price savings since the usage migrating to Advantage Preferred will be the highest rated usage and since there was a change in the source data that was used as the modelling base to simulate the period under study;
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WHEREAS Stentor indicated that database employed to derive the ERPMs (Compas) provided data more representative of the current demand base than the previous database (STAS) and provided enhanced customer level information and that there were some deviations in the results due to the incompatibility of the Compas data with the existing demand/revenue model;
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WHEREAS the Commission notes that in Telecom Order CRTC 95-569 (Order 95-569) it determined that imputation tests filed in support of tariff filings are to be performed using those bottleneck and contribution charges that are approved as of the date of filing, the average Canada/U.S. exchange rates forecast to prevail over the next year and to include bottleneck and contribution charges and/or settlement amounts for traffic that originates or terminates in the territories of independent telephone companies;
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WHEREAS Stentor provided imputation test information as stipulated in Order 95-569;
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WHEREAS, given the amendments to the ERPMs combined with the revised imputation test information, the Commission is not satisfied that the imputation test is met in the absence of further information justifying the ERPM changes;
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WHEREAS the Commission is of the view that the information necessary to justify the changes in the ERPMs would include:
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1. A detailed description of the differences in the demand/revenues captured by each of STAS and Compas (including a description of the items which are billed and not captured in each of STAS and Compas as well as whether each of STAS and Compas would capture demand/revenues originated or terminated in independent telephone company territories).
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2. An elaboration of the statement in the response to SRCI(CRTC)6Apr95-1 that there were some deviations in results due to incompatibility of the Compas data with the existing demand/revenue model which was designed on STAS data specifications.
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3. Recent actual average revenue per minute figures, together with a description of the method used to collect the data necessary to generate these actuals.
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4. Estimates of the impact on the ERPMs of each aspect of the rate change as well as the impact arising from the new database.
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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
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Tariff Notices 107, 108B and 124B are denied.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General |
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