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Letter

Ottawa, 29 January 2008

File No.: 8690-M59-200707721

By e-mail

Teresa Griffin-Muir
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
MTS Allstream Inc.
45 O'Conner Street
Suite 1400
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A4
iworkstation@mtsallstream.com

Patsy Scheer
Assistant Director of Legal Services
City of Vancouver
453 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia   V5Y 1V4
Patsy.scheer@vancouver.ca

Re:   Municipal Access Agreement between the City of Vancouver and MTS Allstream Inc.

This letter addresses requests for further responses to interrogatories to the City of Vancouver and MTS Allstream Inc. (MTS Allstream) filed in the above-noted proceeding.

On 17 December 2007, the Commission received requests for further responses to interrogatories from MTS Allstream and the City of Vancouver .   On 8 January 2008, responses to the17 December 2007 requests were received from the City of Vancouver and MTS Allstream.

With regard to requests for further responses, the requirements of subsection 18(2) of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure apply.   The general principles enunciated by the Commission in past proceedings include the following considerations.

The major consideration is the relevance of the information requested to the matter at issue, and the merits of arguments made by the requesting parties.

The availability of the information requested is also a factor, which is balanced against the relevance of the information.   If the provision of the information sought would require an effort disproportionate to the probative value of the information itself, further response will not be required.

Another factor considered is the extent to which an interrogatory answer is responsive to the interrogatory as it was originally asked.   Generally, parties are not required to provide further information to a party that does not ask the original interrogatory.

Having regard to all the above considerations, the City of Vancouver is to file with the Commission further responses to the extent set out in the Attachment to this letter, serving a copy on MTS Allstream by 7 February 2008.   These further responses must be received, not merely sent, by that date.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed

Paul Godin
Director General
Competition, Costing and Tariffs

Attachment

Further Responses to Interrogatories

City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov07-1(e) and City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov07-8

No further response is required.

City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov07-1(f)

No further response is required.

City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov-07-13(a)

No further response is required.

City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov07-17

No further response is required.

City of Vancouver (MTS Allstream) 13Nov07-23(b), (c), (e)

The City of Vancouver is to respond to parts (b) and (e) of this interrogatory.

MTS Allstream (City of Vancouver ) 13Nov07-03(a)

No further response is required.

MTS Allstream (City of Vancouver ) 13Nov07-04(a)(i)-(iii), (b), (c)(i)-(iii)

No further response is required.

Date Modified: 2008-01-29
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