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Telecom Order CRTC 2003-230

Ottawa, 30 May 2003

Wightman Telecom Ltd.

Reference: Tariff Notice 20

Residential and business primary exchange services

1.

The Commission received an application by Wightman Telecom Ltd. (Wightman), dated 27 March 2003, to revise item 4 of section 100, Rate Schedules for Primary Exchange (Local) Service, and item 2 of section 490, Touch-Tone, of its General Tariff in order to increase its monthly rates as follows:

- residential individual line from $22.57 to $22.82;

- business individual line from $50.15 to $51.31; and

- residential line Touch-Tone from $2.58 to $2.61.

2.

Wightman also requested the inclusion of its unused business primary exchange service (PES) rate increase from 2002.

3.

The Commission received no comments with respect to the application.

4.

In Regulatory framework for the small incumbent telephone companies, Decision CRTC 2001-756, 14 December 2001 (Decision 2001-756), the Commission grouped services into four separate service baskets each with their own pricing constraints. The Commission assigned residential PES to the first service basket and business PES, including both single and multi-line, to the second service basket.

5.

In Decision 2001-756, the Commission also determined that:

- in the absence of any exogenous factors, the rates for residential and business PES would be permitted to increase each year by no more than inflation; and

- unused portions of a possible rate increase for any given year could be accumulated and requested in a following year.

6.

The Commission finds that Wightman's proposed rate increases are in accordance with the Commission's determinations in Decision 2001-756.

7.

The Commission approves Wightman's application. The revisions take effect as of 1 June 2003.

8.

Wightman is to issue revised tariff pages forthwith to reflect these changes.

Secretary General

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Date Modified: 2003-05-30

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