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Ottawa, 3 June 2009

File No.: 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

Ms. Teresa Griffin-Muir

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs

MTS Allstream Inc.

45 O'Connor Street, Suite 1400

Ottawa ON K1P 1A4

iworkstation@mtsallstream.com

Mr. Robert Hersche

Director of Regulatory Affairs

Saskatchewan Telecommunications

2121 Saskatchewan Drive

Regina SK S4P 3Y2

document.control@sasktel.sk.ca

Re: Follow-up to Policy 2009-34 regarding the Line-sharing service – Process Matters

Dear Madam, Sir:

In Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-34 (Policy 2009-34), the Commission classified the incumbent local exchange carriers' (ILECs) line sharing service [1] as a conditional essential wholesale service. On 22 May 2009, Commission staff issued letters to Bell Aliant Regional Communications Limited Partnership (Central), Bell Canada and Telus Communications Company requesting that they provide responses to interrogatories regarding their line sharing service. On the same date, Commission staff issued letters to Bell Aliant (Atlantic Canada), MTS Allstream Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications, requesting that they file costing information regarding their provision of the line sharing service.

Given that the requested information relate to the same service, Commission staff considers it appropriate to combine these proceedings as one proceeding, under File number 8638-C12-200903890.

Commission staff notes that further process will set out after review of these submissions.

Yours truly,

Original signed by

Yvan Davidson

Senior Manager

Competitor Services and Costing

Telecommunications Directorate

Attached Distribution List

[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 its own DSLAM to offer high-speed Internet service to its end-customers.

Distribution List

Distributel Communications Limited: regulatory@distributel.ca

Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.: regulatory@primustel.ca

Cybersurf Corp.: marcel.mercia@cybersurf.com

Coalition of Internet Service Providers Inc.: regulatory@cfai-cisp.ca

Nexicom Telecommunications Inc. : pdowns@nexicom.net

Wightman Telecom Ltd. : pwightman@wightman.ca

Hay Communications Co-operative Limited : a.schneider@hay.net

Sogetel Inc .: alain.duhaime@sogetel.com

Téléphone Milot Inc. : paul.frappier@telmilot.com

La Compagnie de téléphone Upton inc. : j-fmathieu@telupton.qc.ca

Téléphone Guèvremont inc.: gcordeau@maskatel.qc.ca