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Letter

Our file: 8665-C12-200507212

Ottawa, 30 September 2005

By Electronic mail

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Dear Parties:  

Re: Extension of the deadline to file responses to the Commission's interrogatories.   Access to information contained in the incumbent local exchange carriers' Emergency 9-1-1 databases for the purpose of providing a Community Notification Service - Telecom Public Notice CRTC 2005-7

In a letter to the Commission, dated 29 September 2005, the County of Strathcona (on behalf of the Applicants) requested an extension of the deadline to submit its responses to the Commission's interrogatories dated 9 September 2005, in the above-noted proceeding. 

In its letter, the County of Strathcona indicated that, due to limited resources and time constraints, the Applicants have not had the necessary time to adequately address the questions posed by the Commission. 

Comments were received from Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) on 29 September 2005.   SaskTel indicated that it did not oppose to the Applicants' request as long as the time extension applied to all parties.   SaskTel also submitted that if the Commission were to grant the Applicants' request for an extension to the filing of interrogatory responses, the remaining procedure in the proceeding should be adjusted to reflect such a change, in the interest of procedural fairness.

In view of the foregoing and since a deadline extension would not be prejudicial to any of the parties concerned, Commission staff is of the view that the request to postpone the filing deadline to 7 October 2005 for responses to the Commission's interrogatories is reasonable.   Accordingly, the process set out in Public Notice CRTC 2005-7, dated 22 June 2005 , is amended as follows: 

Paragraph 28 :

Responses to all interrogatories are to be filed with the Commission and served on all parties, no later than 7 October 2005 .  

Paragraph 29 :

Requests by parties for further responses to their interrogatories, specifying in each case why a further response is both relevant and necessary, and requests for public disclosure of information for which confidentiality has been claimed, setting out in each case the reasons for disclose, must be filed with the commission and served on all relevant parties by 14 October 2005. 

Paragraph 30 :

Written responses to requests for further responses to interrogatories and for public disclosure must be filed with the Commission and served on the party making the request by 21 October 2005. 

Paragraph 31 :

A determination with respect to requests for further information and public disclosure will be issued as soon as possible.   Any information to be provided pursuant to that determination will be filed with the Commission and served on all parties by 4 November 2005. 

Paragraph 32 :

Parties may file written argument with the Commission, serving a copy on all other parties by 18 November 2005.

Paragraph 33 :

Parties may file written reply arguments with the Commission, serving a copy on all other parties by 25 November 2005.

Commission staff remind parties that where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely sent, by that date.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Gerry Lylyk
Director, Consumer Affairs
Telecommunications 

c.c.: Brian Parker, Strathcona County
  Sylvie Beaudoin, CRTC

Date Modified: 2005-09-30