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Letter

Ottawa, 8 December 2006

File No.: 8638-C12-200602708
                8678-C12-200615578

BY E-MAIL

Mr. Mirko Bibic
Chief, Regulatory Affairs
Bell Canada
110 O'Connor St. , 14th Floor
Ottawa , Ontario
K1P 1H1

Bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Dear Mr. Bibic:

Re: Review of proposals to dispose of the funds accumulated in the deferral accounts, Telecom Public Notice CRTC 2006-15

Pursuant to the procedure specified in paragraph 20 of Review of proposals to dispose of the funds accumulated in the deferral accounts , Telecom Public Notice CRTC 2006-15, 30 November 2006 (PN 2006-15), attached are additional interrogatories associated with this proceeding.   These interrogatories are in reference to Appendix B to Bell Canada 's proposal to improve accessibility to telecommunications services for persons with disabilities, for which an abridged version was submitted by the company on 6 December 2006 .

Bell Canada is requested to file its responses to these interrogatories with the Commission, and serve them on the interested parties to this proceeding, by 19 January 2007 .   These responses are to be received, and not merely sent, by this date.   In providing responses, Bell Canada is requested to provide separate responses for each sub-part of each question.

Yours sincerely,

'Original signed by S. Bédard'

Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs

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cc:   Michel Murray, CRTC (819) 997-9300
       Interested parties to PN 2006-15

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INTERROGATORIES TO BELL CANADA
8 December 2006

B.           ACCESSIBILITY PROPOSAL

Financial information

701     In Appendix B, the company provides summaries of the costs associated with its proposals to implement Internet Protocol Relay (IPR) service and Video Relay Service (VRS). With respect to the cost summaries, provide the information requested in a), b), c), and d) below:

a)   the cost study assumptions, including:

i)   financial parameters;
ii)   portfolio loading factor;
iii)  annual productivity increase factor; and
iv)  annual expense and capital increase factors.

b)   Regarding the proposed capital costs that are causal to demand and to service, provide the following information for each major type of capital equipment:

i)   associate costing methodology and assumptions;
ii)   life estimates;
iii)   fill factor values; and
iv)   the vintage date of the raw data used to develop the unit cost inputs, an explanation of the methods and assumptions used to express each of the capital unit costs in 2006 dollars as appropriate, and retrospective cost increase factors, if any were used.

c)   Regarding the proposed expenses that are causal to demand and to the service, provide explanations of how each of the expense estimates were developed, including a listing of all activities and associated costing assumptions (e.g. time estimates, labour unit costs); and

d)   Provide the annual demand by major demand drivers, if applicable.

702    In Appendix B, Bell Canada provides summaries of the costs associated with its proposal to introduce an enhanced special needs business office centre of excellence.   With respect to the cost summaries, provide the information outlined in question 701 a), b), c), and d).

703    In Appendix B, Bell Canada provides summaries of the estimated costs associated with its proposal to redesign its voice activated dialing system.   With respect to the cost summaries, provide the information outlined in question 701 a), b), c), and d).