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Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-48 |
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| Ottawa, 16 July 2004 | |
TELUS Québec - Interim rates for the 2004 annual price cap period |
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| Reference: 8678-C12-200404749 | |
| In this decision, the Commission approves TELUS Communications (Québec) Inc.'s request to make its rates in the residential optional local services in the high-cost serving areas sub-basket and in the single and multi-line business local exchange services basket interim, effective 1 August 2004. | |
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The Commission received an application by TELUS Communications (Québec) Inc. (TELUS Québec), dated 12 May 2004, requesting that the Commission make all service rates within its residential optional local services in high-cost serving areas (HCSAs) sub-basket, its single and multi-line business local exchange services basket and its other capped services basket, interim effective 1 August 2004. |
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TELUS Québec noted that, coincident with its request to have those service rates made interim, it had filed a request for the Commission to extend the deadline for filing its 2004 price cap filing by 2 months, from 31 May 2004 to 31 July 2004. |
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TELUS Québec noted that making its rates interim would ensure that the company could be in a position to take advantage of the rate adjustments it intended to propose in its 2004 price cap filing over the full length of the 2004 price cap period. |
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The Commission received no comments with respect to this application. |
Background |
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In Implementation of price regulation for Télébec and TELUS Québec, Telecom Decision CRTC 2002-43, 31 July 2002, the Commission directed TELUS Québec to file, for the remainder of the price cap period, updates to the service basket limit (SBL) and service basket index (SBI), with supporting calculations, formulae and spreadsheets, for each basket/sub-basket of capped services, as applicable, on an annual basis, by 31 May. |
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In Société en commandite Télébec and TELUS Communications (Québec) Inc. 2002 annual price cap filings, Telecom Decision CRTC 2003-57, 22 August 2003, the Commission directed TELUS Québec to make further rate reductions to certain services in the other capped services basket retroactive to 1 August 2002 and consequently concluded that it was not prepared to approve the rates for other capped services on a final basis at that time. However, the rates in the remaining service baskets were made final effective 1 August 2002. |
Commission analysis and determination |
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The Commission notes that, in a Commission staff letter dated 4 June 2004, TELUS Québec's deadline for filing its 2004 price cap filing was extended to 31 July 2004. Consequently, the Commission notes that a decision on any rate adjustment proposed as part of TELUS Québec's 2004 price cap filing could not be issued prior to 1 August 2004, the start date of the 2004 price cap period. |
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The Commission considers that TELUS Québec's request to make its rates in the residential optional local services in HCSAs sub-basket and in the single and multi-line business local exchange services basket interim effective 1 August 2004, to be reasonable. The Commission notes that since TELUS Québec's rates in the other capped services basket are already interim, no determination is required for that basket of services. |
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Accordingly, the Commission approves TELUS Québec's request to make the rates in its residential optional local services in HCSAs sub-basket and in its single and multi-line business local exchange services basket interim, effective 1 August 2004. |
| Secretary General | |
| This document is available in alternative format upon request and may also be examined at the following Internet site: http://www.crtc.gc.ca |
Date Modified: 2004-07-16
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