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Ottawa, 16 October 2009

Our Reference: 8660-B54-200913865

BY E-MAIL

Mr. Denis E. Henry

Vice-President - Regulatory & Government Affairs

and Chief of Privacy

Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership

160 Elgin Street, 19th Floor

Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2C4

regulatory@bell.aliant.ca

Mr. Mirko Bibic

Senior Vice-President

Regulatory and Government Affairs

BellCanada

160 Elgin Street, 19th Floor

Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2C4

bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Re: Part VII Application Concerning the Appropriate Competitor Quality of Service Standards for the Provisioning of Competitor DS-1 Digital Network Services

On 14 October 2009, Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership and Bell Canada (collectively, the Companies) filed an application pursuant to sections 11, 47, 60, 61 and 62 of the Telecommunications Act and paragraph 57 of Part VII of the CRTC Telecommunications Rules of Procedure, requesting the Commission to review and vary certain aspects of Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-514. In its application, the Companies are also requesting a stay of the Commission’s directives in paragraphs 19, 23 and 30 of Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-514 regarding the provisioning intervals to be used for CDN DS-1 service in the Companies operating territories of Ontario and Québec whenever line cards or conditioning is required prior to providing service, until the Commission renders a ruling in this application.

Commission staff considers, in these circumstances, that it is appropriate to initiate an expedited process with regard to the stay request. Parties may file comments with the Commission and serve copy to the Companies on the request for a stay by 30 October 2009. The Companies may file and serve upon all respondents a reply submission by 4 November 2009. All documents must actually be received, and not merely sent, by the aforementioned dates.

Sincerely,

Original signed by

Mario Bertrand

Director

Competition Implementation and Technology

Telecommunications

c.c.: Parties to Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-514

Cybersurf marcel.mercia@cybersurf.com

MTS Allstream iworkstation@mtsallstream.com

Persona dean@personainc.ca

Primus regulatory@primustel.ca

Rogers david.watt@rci.rogers.com