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Ottawa, 2 December 2009
Our Reference: 8740-B2-200904989
8740-B54-200904971
BY E-MAIL
Distribution
RE: Bell Aliant Tariff Notice 242 and Bell Canada Tariff Notice 7181
Dear Madams and Sirs:
By letter dated 30 November 2009, MTS Allstream Inc. (MTS Allstream) made various submissions and requests with respect to the record of the proceeding associated with the above-referenced tariff notices. In letters of 1 December 2009, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers on behalf of Accelerated Connections Inc., AOL Canada, Cybersurf, EGATE Networks, Telnet Communications and Yak Communications (Canada) Corp.; Execulink Telecom Inc. and Vaxination Informatique supported MTS Allstream’s requests.
MTS Allstream requests for disclosure
MTS Allstream requested that certain information submitted by Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership and Bell Canada (collectively, the Bell companies) with a claim of confidentiality should be placed on the public record.
Commission staff notes that MTS Allstream’s request reiterates a previous request that was disposed of in Commission staff’s letter of 28 October 2009 on the basis that the public interest in the disclosure of the information in question did not outweigh specific direct harm to the Bell companies. Commission staff remains of the view that, with respect to the information sought to be disclosed, the public interest in disclosure is outweighed by the specific direct harm to the Bell companies.
Further information
With respect to the further information that MTS Allstream submitted should be put on the record of the proceeding, Commission staff considers that additional information to the extent sought in the interrogatories in the Attachment should be put on the record. The Bell companies are requested to respond to the interrogatories in the Attachment by 4 December 2009.
Revised process dates
Accordingly, the 30 November 2009 date for parties’ submissions of comments or supplementary comments as established in Commission staff’s letter dated 25 November 2009, is revised to 9 December 2009. The date for submission of the Bell companies’ reply comments is revised to 14 December 2009. Submissions must be received, not merely sent by the relevant date.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by Yvan Davidson
for
Paul Godin
Director General
Competition, Costing and Tariffs
c.c.: Richard Pagé, CRTC 819-997-4298, richard.page@crtc.gc.ca
Daphne Fry, CRTC 819-953-5373, daphne.fry@crtc.gc.ca
Attachment
Distribution List
Attachment
1. Confirm that, for billing purposes, the Bell companies propose to measure the usage of the end-users of their residential GAS customers after they perform the traffic throttling function; if not, (a) explain why not and (b) quantify, in percentage terms, the amount by which the usage of the end-users of residential GAS customers would be over-estimated (due to, for example, dropped packets) and provide the methods and assumptions used to derive this amount.
2.
A. Identify each (i) retail service and (ii) wholesale service other than residential GAS that the Bell companies provide using the same network facilities they use to provision residential GAS (these network facilities are referred to below as “underlying facilities”).
B. Provide, for each service in i) to v) and service category vi) below the proportion, in percentage terms, of the network peak period traffic for the underlying facilities relative to total network peak period traffic for the underlying facilities:
i) residential GAS;
ii) business GAS;
iii) HSA;
iv) retail residential Internet;
v) retail business Internet; and
vi) other retail services, identifying each major residential and business service.
Information is to be provided for the time period for which the most recent data is available.
Distribution List
Bell Aliant, regulatory@bell.aliant.ca
Bell Canada, bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Canadian Association of Internet Providers, tom.copeland@caip.ca
Union des consommateurs, union@consommateur.qc.ca
The Coalition of Internet Service, regulatory@cfai-cisp.ca
Vaxination Informatique, jfmezei@vaxination.ca
EGATE Networks Inc., info@egate.net
Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., regulatory@primustel.ca
Ontario Telecommunications Association, jonathan.holmes@ota.on.ca
Execulink Telecom, kstevens@execulink.com
Distributel Communications Limited, regulatory@distributel.ca
Aventures en Excellence Inc (AEI Internet), info@aei.net
MTS Allstream Inc., iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Cybersurf Corp., marcel.mercia@cybersurf.com
Managed Network Systems, Inc., clayton@MNSi.Net
Yak Communications, lisagoetz@globalive.com
TekSavvy Solutions Inc., info@teksavvy.com
Christian Tacit, ctacit@tacitlaw.com
Acanac Inc., paul@acanac.ca
Electronic Box Inc., regulatory@electronicbox.net
Accelerated Connections, mgarbe@dsl4u.ca
Telnet Communications, regulatory@telnetcommunications.com
AOL Canada Inc., regulatoryca@aol.com
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