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Letter

Ottawa, 6 September 2005

File No.  8740-B2-200510273

By E-mail

bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Mr. David Palmer
Director - Regulatory Matters
Bell Canada
110 O'Connor Street , 7th Floor
Ottawa , ON
K1P 1H1

Dear Mr. Palmer:

Re: Bell Canada Tariff Notice 6897 - Bell Digital Voice Service

The company is requested to provide comprehensive answers, including any supporting information, to the attached questions with regard to the above referenced application by 19 September 2005.

The Commission expects to render its decision within 45 business days of the date of receipt of the tariff notice.

Yours sincerely,

'Original signed by S. Bédard '

Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs
Telecommunications

Attachment

c.c.: Bob Martin, CRTC (819) 953-3361

Attachment

In its 1 September 2005 filing letter, the company indicated that it has identified system constraints which preclude the support of number portability for secondary numbers.

  1. Describe, in detail, the nature of these constraints that are preventing the company from supporting number portability for secondary numbers.

  2. Explain why it is possible to support number portability for primary numbers, but not secondary numbers.

  3. Confirm whether these constraints prevent the company from supporting number portability for secondary telephone numbers associated only with NPAs outside of Bell Canada operating territory, those inside Bell Canada operating territory, or all Canadian NPAs.

  4. Indicate the company's plans to resolve this issue, if any, and if so, indicate when it expects to be able to restore this capability.

  5. In instances where a Bell Digital Voice customer wishes to no longer use a given telephone number as a secondary number, but instead wishes to use the same number in conjunction with another LEC's service, confirm that Bell Canada would release the number so that it could be ported by the other LEC.   If Bell Canada would not release the number, provide justification as to why not?

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