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Letter

Ottawa, 8 January 2008

File No.:   8662-B2-200716707

By E-mail

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

bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Dear Mr. Bibic:

Re:   Application by Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership ( Bell Aliant) and Bell Canada for the review and variation of Telecom Decision 2007-35

On 23 November 2007 , the Commission received a Part VII application by Bell Aliant and Bell Canada .

In Service standards for the disposition of telecommunications applications , Telecom Circular CRTC 2006-11, 7 December 2006 , the Commission stated that it would categorize Part VII applications into two types:   Type 1 applications that generally do not involve multiple parties or raise significant policy issues and Type 2 applications that do involve multiple parties and/or raise significant policy issues

The Commission also adopted the following service standards for Part VII applications:

• Type 1 Part VII applications - 90 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within four months of the close-of-record; and
  
  
• Type 2 Part VII applications - 85 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within eight months of the close-of-record.

The Commission stated that it would inform applicants, by letter, within 10 days of the end of the comment period for applications, whether the application is considered to be a Type 1 or Type 2 application, and the applicable service standard.

Commission staff has assessed the above application and considers it to be a Type 1 application.   Accordingly, the Commission expects to issue an interim or final determination within four months of the close of record.

Yours sincerely,

Original singed by

Mario Bertrand
Acting Director, Competition Implementation and Technology
Telecommunications

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