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Letter

Ottawa, 17 March 2005

File Number: 8740-T78-200306523

By fax and E-mail

(514) 493-5379
reglementa@telebec.com

Allen Mercier
Director, Regulatory Study
Société en commandite Télébec
7151 rue Jean-Talon est, Suite 702
Anjou , QC
H1M 3N8

Dear Mr. Mercier:

Subject:    Tariff Notices 296 & 296/A - Rates for local interconnection and unbundled network components

On 21 May 2003, the Commission received an application from Société en commandite Télébec (Télébec) under cover of Tariff Notice 296, which proposes to introduce rates for local interconnection and unbundled network components, pursuant to Implementation of price regulation for Télébec and TELUS Québec , Telecom Decision CRTC 2002-43, 31 July 2002. On 2 March 2005, the Commission received an amended application under cover of Tariff Notice 296/A, pursuant to Implementation of competition in the local exchange and 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).

Commission staff notes the following deficiencies in the amended application:

1.  With respect to CCS7 services, the company did not provide rates/service charges, or make a reference to another ILEC tariff or identify pass-through charges.

 
2.  No rates/service charges have been provided for Local Transit Service.

3.  No rates/service charges were provided for Toll Transit Services.

4.  The monthly rate for riser space is greater than Bell Canada 's rate marked-up by 8.7% as determined in Decision 2005-4.

5.  No rates were provided for ADSL coverage information.

6.  There were no provisions to make available information on latitude and longitude for remotes and Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs).

7.  No rates/service charges nor terms and conditions were provided for connection to in-building wire.

8.  No terms and conditions were provided for routing CLEC originated 800/888 calls.

9.  No rates/charges were provided for T1 service by a CLEC using either type A and/or B local loops.

10.  With respect to rates for Pay Telephone Basic Access Line (PAL) service, no reference was made as to how the rates were calculated using the 75% rule or that flat-rate individual line business service under a minimum contract period are not applicable to PAL service.

Consequently, this application is now closed.

However, the company is required to file a new application, pursuant to the directives in Decision 2005-4, containing the missing information. The company shall explain any deviation from the Commission's directives in Decision 2005-4 and provide the supporting rationale. The application must be filed under cover of a new tariff notice.

Sincerely,

 

Scott Hutton
Director General,
Competition, Costing and Tariffs
(819) 997-4573

c.c.: Henri Jacques, 819-953-4945

Date modified: 2005-03-17

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