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Letter

Ottawa, 15 March 2005

Our file: 8638-C12-69/02

By E-mail and Fax

Mr. Allen Mercier
Directeur - Recherche réglementaire
Service de la Réglementation
Télébec, société en commandite
7151, rue Jean-Talon Est, 7° étage
Anjou (QC) H1M 3N8
Fax : (514) 493-5379
Courriel : reglementa@telebec.com

Dear Mr. Mercier:

Re: Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-77 - Toll-free Internet Access

Please find attached interrogatories with respect to the provision of Toll-free Internet Access pursuant to the Commission directives in Société en commandite Télébec - Follow-up to Decision 2002-43 - Service improvement plan , Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-77, 18 November 2004 (Decision 2004-77).

Please file your response to these interrogatories with the Commission and serve a copy to interested parties, no later than 15 days from the date of this letter.   The response is to be actually received, and not merely sent, by the above date.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by:

Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tarifs
Telecommunications

Attach.

 

c.c: Mr. Balgovind Pande - Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach
         Fax:   (418) 585-3130   Email: kawawa@naskapi.ca
       Mr. Philippe Mercorio - L'Union des consommateurs
         Fax : (514) 521-0736 Email : union@consommateur.qc.ca


TÉLÉBEC

TELECOM DECISION CRTC 2004-77

TOLL-FREE INTERNET ACCESS 

1.  Refer to the economic study dated 17 January 2005 .

a) Restate the results of the economic study, as required, in light of the Commission's determinations in Implementation of competition in the local exchange and local payphone markets in the territories of Société en commandite Télébec and the former TELUS Communications (Québec) Inc. , Telecom Decision CRTC 2005-4, 31 January 2005 (Decision 2005-4).

b) For each rate band, provide the present worth of demand and the monthly amounts   per residential NAS that are required to calculate the funding from the National Contribution Fund.   The information should be presented in the same format as that of the company's response to interrogatory TÉLÉBEC(CRTC)29Jan04-1 CRTC2002-43, Attachment A, page 7/12.

c) Provide a detailed explanation for the increase in the residual going-in revenue requirement from $200,000 to $226,519.

2.  Refer to comments dated 7 February 2005 filed by the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, to comments dated 10 February 2005 filed by l'Union des consommateurs and to the company's response dated 22 February 2005 .

a) Provide the rationale to support the company's view that funding, approved on an interim basis in Decision 2004-77, should be maintained for Schefferville while Toll-free Internet access is provided by another Internet service provider.

b) Restate the results of the economic study dated 17 January 2005 assuming that Schefferville is removed from the project.

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