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Ottawa, 14 April 2009
File No. 8740-T66-200904195
BY E- MAIL
Mr. Terry Connolly
Director, Regulatory Matters
TELUS Communications Company
21-10020 100 St. NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J ON5
Regulatory.affairs@telus.com
Dear Mr. Connolly:
RE: TELUS Communications Company Tariff Notice No. 348
Please find enclosed, an interrogatory addressing issues associated with Tariff Notice (TN) 348.
The company has submitted in its application and in reply comments that the planned tariff changes to discontinue the business practice of channel aggregation will not impact the service revenues. The company bases this assertion on the likelihood that customers will reconfigure their services in response to the planned changes. However, the Price Cap regime uses the previous year's historical demand/revenue base upon which future rate impacting actions are measured, and any forecasted changes in demand are not considered relevant.
Response to this interrogatory is to be filed with the Commission by 30 April 2009. Response is to be received by the Commission, and not merely sent by this date.
Accordingly, the Commission will be unable to dispose of this tariff application within 45 business days. The Commission expects to issue its decision regarding this application prior to the end of June 2009.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by S. Bédard'
Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs
Telecommunications
Attach.
cc: Brendan Keown, CRTC (819) 953-4945
ATTACHMENT
TELUS Communications Company TN 348 Interrogatory
The company is proposing to remove aggregation discounts wherein, for example, customers with 13 to 24 DS-0 inter-office digital channels on an individual route are charged for the capacity of a DS-1 channel.
The company is to provide the impact on the price cap index for the Other Capped Services basket of the proposed tariff change using its 2009 price cap filing demand and revenue information (i.e., 2008). Specifically, the information should reflect the revenue impacts of the proposed tariff change at the various rate element levels for DS-0, DS-1, and DS-3. Further indicate whether the revenue change for each tariff element satisfies the rate element constraint and whether the overall impact of the revenue changes will be less than or equal to the service basket limit for the Other Capped Services basket.
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