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Ottawa, 17 September 2009

File No.: 8640-B2-200909757

By E-mail

Jonathan Daniels

Vice President - Regulatory Law

Bell Canada

Floor 19

160 Elgin Street

Ottawa, Ontario

K2P 2C4

bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Dear Mr. Daniels:

Re: Bell Canada - Application requesting forbearance from the regulation of Bell Canada’s high-speed intra-exchange digital network access (DNA) services in specific wire centres in Ontario and Québec

On 26 June 2009, the Commission received the above-mentioned Part VII application by Bell Canada.

In Service standards for the disposition of telecommunications applications, Telecom Circular CRTC 2006-11, 7 December 2006, the Commission stated that it would categorize Part VII applications into two types: Type 1 applications that generally do not involve multiple parties or raise significant policy issues and Type 2 applications that do involve multiple parties and/or raise significant policy issues.

The Commission also adopted the following service standards for Part VII applications:

Type 1 Part VII applications – 90 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within four months of the close-of-record; and
Type 2 Part VII applications – 85 percent of determinations to be issued on an interim or final basis within eight months of the close-of-record.

The Commission stated that it would inform applicants, by letter, within 10 days of the end of the comment period for applications, whether the application is considered to be a Type 1 or Type 2 application, and the applicable service standard.

Commission staff has assessed the above application and considers it to be a Type 1 application. Accordingly, it is expected that the Commission will issue interim or final determinations within 4 months of the close-of-record.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Mario Bertrand

Director, Competition Implementation and Technology

Telecommunications

c.c.: Kevin Pickell kevin.pickell@crtc.gc.ca

Crystal Hulley crystal.hulley@crtc.gc.ca

Atria Networks LP regulatory@atrianetworks.com

AT&T Global Services Canada Co. mariasbrocchi@att.com

Blink Communications Inc. bmin@blink.ca

Cogeco Cable Inc. telecom.regulatory@cogeco.com

Cogent Canada Inc. rzulager@cogentco.com