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LetterOttawa, 26 May 2008 File No.: 8663-P52-200803876 By E-mail Ms. Nathalie MacDonald Dear Ms. MacDonald: Re: People's Tel Limited Partenership implementation plan for local competition in Forest and Arkona exchanges in Ontario On 10 March 2008, the Commission received People's Tel Limited Partnership (People's Tel) implementation plan for local competition with Execulink Telecom Inc. (Execulink) in the Forest and Arkona exchanges in People's Tels territory, but which did not include a cost recovery proposal. People's Tel proposed an implementation date of 1 December 2008, as it would only be able to deploy a DMS-100 switch in the fall of 2008. The Commission received comments from Execulink on 22 March and 31 March 2008. Execulink proposed a "work-around" to the issue of switch deployment, which, it argued, could allow People's Tel to implement local competition by 1 August 2008, prior to People's Tel's planned replacement of its existing DMS-10 by a DMS-100. Process for dealing with People's Tel's implementation plan: To move the process forward, Commission staff sets out the following process for dealing with the implementation of local competition in People's Tel's serving territory in the Forest and Arkona exchanges in Ontario.
Bell Aliant's request for co-location: Staff notes that on 23 April 2008, the Commission received comments from Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership (Bell Aliant). Bell Aliant submitted that by letter dated 14 August 2007, it had indicated to People's Tel its intention to co-locate in the Forest central office for the purpose of toll interconnection and it also requested People's Tel to file co-location tariffs for the Commission's approval. Bell Aliant indicated that to date, it has not received any response from People's Tel as to its requests. In its reply comments, People's Tel submitted that it would deal separately with Bell Aliant's request for co-location. Pursuant to Revised regulatory framework for the small incumbent local exchange carriers, Telecom Decision 2006-14, 29 March 2006, People's Tel should make co‑location space available to Bell Aliant, where space is available, under similar terms and conditions established for co-location services for the large Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers. To that end, People's Tel is requested to file co-location tariffs by 16 June 2008. People's Tel is requested to advise the Commission and Bell Aliant by 2 June 2008 if it has issues or concerns regarding the filing of co‑location tariffs. Yours sincerely, Original signed by cc: Martin Brazeau, CRTC, (819) 997-3498, martin.brazeau@crtc.gc.ca Date Modified: 2008-05-26 |
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