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Letter

Ottawa, 21 April 2008  

File No.:   8640-B54-200804832

By email

Mr Denis E. Henry
Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs
Bell Aliant Regional Communications
110 O'Connor Street, 14th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1H1
bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Dear Mr Henry :

Re:   Part VII application for forbearance from the regulation of business local exchange services in the exchange of Halifax, Nova Scotia

On 31 March 2008, the Commission received the above-mentioned Part VII application by Bell Aliant Regional Communications.

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 signed by

Mario Bertrand
Acting Director, Competition Implementation and Technology
Telecommunications

cc:  EastLink 
   regulatory.matters@corp.eastlink.ca  
      Teresa Griffin-Muir, MTS Allstream Inc.
       iworkstation@mtsallstream.com

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