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Ottawa, 20 February 2009
File Number: 8638-C12-200903890
By e-mail
Mr. Denis Henry
Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs
Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership
160 Elgin Street, 19 th Floor
Ottawa, ON K2P 2C4
regulatory@bell.aliant.ca
Mr. David Palmer
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Bell Canada
160 Elgin Street 19 th Floor
Ottawa, ON K2P 2C4
bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Mr. Ted Woodhead
Vice-President, Telecom Policy and Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communications Company
215 Slater Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 0A6
Regulatory.Affairs@TELUS.com
Dear Sirs:
Re: Follow-up to Policy 2009-34 – Line-sharing service
In Requests to vary directives in Telecom Decision 2008-17 related to the provision of central-office-based wholesale ADSL access service and aggregated ADSL access service , Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-34 (Policy 2009-34), the Commission replaced paragraphs 74 through 77 of Telecom Decision CRTC 2008-17 (Decision 2008-17) and, among other things, determined that the ILECs' line-sharing service [1] is to be classified as a conditional essential service.
Policy 2009-34 resulted from a proceeding initiated by an application made by Bell Canada on behalf of itself, Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership, Saskatchewan Telecommunications and Télébec, Société en commandite .
The line-sharing services of Bell Canada and TELUS Communications Company (TCC) are approved on an interim basis. [1] Aliant Telecom Inc., now Bell Aliant Regional, Limited Partnership (Bell Aliant) has filed a proposed tariff for a line-sharing service, which the Commission has not yet ruled on. [2]
The Commission determined in paragraph 134 of Decision 2008-17 that conditional essential services will be priced at company-specific Phase II costs plus a mark-up of 15 percent.
Bell Aliant, Bell Canada and TCC are each requested to file the following with the Commission, by 1 May 2009, serving a copy on parties that commented in the proceeding that led to Policy 2009-34: a proposed revised tariff for line-sharing service, a cost study and proposed rates for line-sharing service that are consistent with the pricing determination above, as well as a description that includes diagrams of how the service is, or for Bell Aliant will be, provisioned, indicating with rationale the cost elements included in its cost study.
The information requested above must be actually received by 1 May 2009.
Yours truly,
Original signed by
Yvan Davidson
Senior Manager
Competitor Services and Costing
Telecommunications
c.c.: Coalition of Internet Service Providers I nc. regulatory@cfai-cisp.ca
Cybersurf Corp. marcel.mercia@cia.com
Distributel Communications Limited regulatory@distributel.ca
MTS Allstream Inc. iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. regulatory@primustel.ca
Trichur Krishnan 819-953-9584
[1] For Bell Canada , Order CRTC 2001-914;for TCC, Telecom Decision 2006-55
[2] Bell Aliant TN 100
[1] Line-sharing service is a wholesale service that provides access to the high frequency band of the unbundled local copper loop. Under this service arrangement, the co-located competitor provisions it own DSLAM to offer high-speed Internet service to its end-customers.
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