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LetterOttawa, 5 May 2005 File Number: 8678-A53-200505365 By E-mail
Mr. David Hennessey Dear Mr. Hennessey: Re: Follow-up to Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-47, Access to pay telephone service: Application for an Exogenous Factor Adjustment to Recover the Costs of Equipping Pay Telephones with TTY Units This letter is further to Aliant Telecom Inc.'s (Aliant Telecom's) submission dated 28 January 2005 , filed in the proceeding initiated by to Review and disposition of the deferral accounts for the second price cap period , Telecom Public Notice 2004-1, 24 March 2004 (Public Notice 2004-1). In that submission, the company requested that it be allowed an annual draw down from the deferral account for a period of four years in order to recover the costs associated with upgrading pay telephones with teletypewriter units. The company noted that it was required to install these units pursuant to the Commission's determinations in Access to pay telephone service , Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-47, 15 July 2004 (Decision 2004-47). Commission staff notes that in Decision 2004-47, the Commission directed the large incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) to file requests for an exogenous factor to recover the costs of upgrading their pay telephones with TTY units if they were of the view that it qualified for such treatment. Bell Canada, MTS Allstream Inc., and TELUS Communications Inc. each filed applications specifically to address these directives. The Commission disposed of these applications in Follow-up to Access to pay telephone service, Telecom Decision CRTC 2004-47, 15 July 2004: Requests to recover costs associated with upgrading pay telephone with teletypewriter units , Telecom Decision CRTC 2005-23, 14 April 2005. Given the directives in Decision 2004-47, Commission staff finds it necessary to complete an analysis of Aliant Telecom's application and of the associated costing support to ensure consistent treatment among the ILECs. As such, Aliant Telecom's application for recovery of its costs associated with upgrading pay telephones with TTY units will be considered separately from the proceeding initiated by Public Notice 2004-1. Attached are interrogatories relating to Aliant Telecom's request. Aliant Telecom is to file its responses to the attached interrogatories with the Commission by 27 May 2005 . Where documents are required to be filed or served by a specific date, the documents must be actually received, not merely sent, by that date. Yours sincerely, 'Original signed by S. Bédard '
Suzanne Bédard cc: C. Bailey, CRTC (819) 997-4557 ATTACH.
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1. Provide the following information with respect to the capital costs for the TTY units, identifying the components included in items a) to d):
2. Provide a revised Table 3.4-1 (summary of Phase II cost impacts) for each of the following changes in assumptions:
3. The company stated that the expenses causal to service includes an amount to set up a payphone inventory system. Date Modified: 2005-05-05 |
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