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Ottawa, 25 September 2009
Ms. Dawn Hunt
Vice President, Regulatory
333 Bloor Street East
Toronto, ONM4W 1G9
RE: Government regulatory recovery fee on wireless bills
Dear Ms. Hunt,
Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) recently announced that, as of 5 October 2009, it would be replacing the system access fee that was being charged to its new wireless customers with a “government regulatory recovery fee” (the fee) of between $2.50 and $3.50, depending on the province.
With this fee being defined as a means to recover expenses related to government regulations, RCI is to file with the Commission:
1) a detailed cost breakdown, with supporting calculations, which describes how RCI arrived at the fee amount, including the specific government regulatory measures that are meant to be recovered from the fee;
2) the fee amount it plans to charge to customers, by province;
3) the reasoning behind the differences in the fee amounts between provinces; and
4) the reasoning behind charging the fee only to new customers and not to existing customers.
RCI is to submit its response to the Commission no later than 2 October 2009. Where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, and not merely sent, by that date.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Godin
Director General, Competition, Costing and Tariffs
Telecommunications
c.c.: BellCanada bell.regulatory@bell.ca
TELUS Communications Company regulatory.affairs@telus.com
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