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Letter

File No.:   8640-T66-200805294

Ottawa, 30 April 2008

By email

Mr. Ted Woodhead
Vice-President, Telecom Policy & Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communications Company
215 Slater St, 8th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 0A6
ted.woodhead@telus.com

Dear Mr. Woodhead :

Re:   Part VII application for forbearance from the regulation residential local exchange services in the Cobble Hill, Fulford, Ganges, Rosedale and Yarrow exchanges in British Columbia and Banff exchange in Alberta.

On 8 April 2008, the Commission received the above-mentioned Part VII application by TELUS Communications Company.

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

c.c.:   Donald Woodford, Bell Mobility Inc.
          bell.regulatory@bell.ca  
          Kenneth Engelhart , Rogers Communications Inc
          ken.engelhart@rci.rogers.com  
         Jean Brazeau, Shaw Telecom Inc.
         jean.brazeau@sjrb.ca

Date Modified: 2008-04-30
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