ARCHIVED - Telecom Public Notice CRTC 99-7
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Ottawa, 12 March 1999 |
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Telecom Public Notice CRTC 99-7 |
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FORBEARANCE FROM DIGITAL NETWORK ACCESS SERVICES |
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File Nos.: 8640-N5-02/98 and 8640-S1-06/98 |
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BACKGROUND |
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1.Under cover of a letter dated 15 December 1998, NBTel Inc. (NBTel) filed an application on behalf of itself and Maritime Tel & Tel Limited (MT&T) requesting forbearance, pursuant to section 34 of the Telecommunications Act (Act), from sections 25, 27(1), 29 and 31 of the Act, for the provision of current and future Digital Network Access (DNA) services by NBTel in its operating territory and by MT&T in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The application stated that DNA services include NBTel and MT&T's services at DS-0, 128 Kbps Fractional DS-1, DS-1, DS-3, 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 155 Mbps bandwidths, local broadcast video and future services in the same class. |
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2.By letter of the same date, Stentor Resource Centre Inc. filed an application, on behalf of BC TEL, Bell Canada (Bell) and TELUS Communications Inc. (TCI), requesting forbearance pursuant to section 34 of the Act, from sections 24, 25, 27, 29 and 31, for High Capacity Digital Access (HCDA) in Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, Calgary and Vancouver. The application stated that these HCDA services include DNA services at DS-0, DS-1 and DS-3 bandwidths, several elements of various Special Facilities Tariffs (SFTs), and future services in the same class. |
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3.The Commission hereby initiates a proceeding to consider the applications by BC TEL, Bell, and TCI and by NBTel and MT&T (collectively the Applicants). |
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PROCEDURE |
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4.Interveners wishing to participate in this proceeding must notify the Commission of their intention to do so by writing to the Secretary General, CRTC, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N2, fax: 819-953-0795, by 6 April 1999. Interveners are to indicate in the notice their Internet email address, if available. If interveners do not have access to the Internet, they are to indicate in their notice whether they wish to receive disk versions of hard copy filings. The Commission will issue a complete list of parties and their mailing addresses (including Internet email addresses, if available), identifying those parties who wish to receive disk versions. |
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5.Interveners may address interrogatories to BC TEL, Bell, MT&T, NBTel and TCI. Any such interrogatories must be filed with the Commission and served on the Applicant in question by 9 April 1999. |
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6.Responses to interrogatories are to be filed with the Commission and served on all parties by 30 April 1999. |
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7.Requests by interveners 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 relevant Applicant by 14 May 1999. |
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8.Written responses to requests for further responses to interrogatories and for public disclosure must be filed with the Commission and served on the intervener making the request by 28 May 1999. |
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9.The Commission will issue a determination with respect to requests for disclosure and for further responses as soon as possible, and intends to direct that any information to be provided pursuant to that determination be filed with the Commission and served on all parties to the proceeding by 2 July 1999. |
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10.Interveners may file comments, serving copies on all other parties, by 23 July 1999. |
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11.The Applicants may file reply comments, serving copies on all other parties, by 13 August 1999. |
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12.The applications may be examined, or will be made available promptly upon request, at the CRTC offices at the following addresses: |
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Central Building |
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Bank of Commerce Building |
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Place Montréal Trust |
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55 St. Clair Avenue East |
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275 Portage Avenue |
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530-580 Hornby Street |
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13.Where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely sent, by that date. |
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14.In addition to hard copy filings, parties are encouraged to file with the Commission electronic versions of their submissions in accordance with the Commission's Interim Telecom Guidelines for the Handling of Machine-Readable Files, dated 30 November 1995. The Commission's Internet email address for electronically filed documents is public.telecom@crtc.gc.ca. Electronically filed documents can be accessed at the Commission's Internet site at http://www.crtc.gc.ca. |
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Secretary General |
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