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Ottawa, 9 December 2008
File No.: 8661-T66-200811530
BY EMail
Mr. Ted Woodhead
Vice-President- Regulatory Affairs
Telecom Policy & Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communication Company
215 Slater Street, 8th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 0A6
regulatory.affairs@telus.com
Re: Number Plan Area Relief
Dear Mr. Woodhead:
On 26 August 2008, the Commission received an application by TELUS Communications Company (TCC) requesting that it be allowed to recover, through an exogenous adjustment, the cost of advancement of the wireline costs associated with the faster than anticipated implementation of Number Plan Area relief in TCC 's incumbent serving territory.
TCC is requested to provide responses to interrogatories as set out in the Attachment by 19 December 2008.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by
Dem Magmanlac
Acting Senior Manager,
Tariffs
Attachment
1) The availability of number portability permits consumers to retain their current telephone number when migrating between LECs or from a ILEC to a wireless service provider, or vice-versa. At paragraph 16 of TCC 's 26 August 2008 application, TCC states that " .the use of NAS would be appropriate in the present context given that WNP and wireless growth are among the principal factors driving the faster than anticipated implementation of NPA relief. "
a) Explain, with supporting rationale, why WNP and wireless growth are among the principal factors contributing to the advancement of the Number Plan Area ( NPA) area code relief costs from their previously forecasted implementation timeframes to the September 2008 timeframe.
b) Provide the company's views regarding the other factors that have contributed to code exhaust.
c) Explain, with supporting rationale, why the advancement of NPA area code relief costs should not be considered part of a normal telecommunications activity.
2) Commission staff consider that o ne of the factors that contributes to area code exhaust is the overall utilization rate of telephone numbers within each Central Office (CO) code. The higher this utilisation rate is, the longer it will be before an area code exhausts.
a) Provide the company's views regarding the relationship between the overall utilization rate of telephone numbers (within CO codes) and area code exhaust.
b) Provide the number of CO codes TCC holds in each of the following area codes: British Columbia: Area code 250; Alberta: Area code 403 and 780, and; Quebec: Area Code 418.
c) Identify the utilisation rate of each CO code in each of the above NPAs as of the end of August, 2008.
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