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Ottawa, 1 April 2010

Our Reference:  8640-P52-201000934

BY EMAIL

Ms. Natalie MacDonald

Vice-President, Regulatory Matters

People’s Tel Limited Partnership

6080 Yong Street, Suite 801

Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 5M3

regulatory.matters@corps.eastlink.ca

Mr. Keith Stevens

Chairman

Execulink Telecom Inc.

Box 130, Burgessville

Ontario, N0J 1C0

kstevens@execulink.com

Dear Ms. MacDonald, Mr. Stevens:

Re: People’s Tel Limited Partnership– Application for forbearance from the regulation of business local exchange services in the Forest exchange

The Commission is in receipt of submissions and/or data regarding the above-mentioned application from People’s Tel Limited Partnership (People’s Tel) and Execulink Telecom Inc. (Execulink).

In order for the Commission to make a decision in this proceeding, People’s Tel and Execulink are requested to provide the Commission with their response to the following questions by
12 April 2010.

Questions for People’s Tel:

  1. Provide the estimated number of businesses present in the core of the exchange of Forest, as defined in the above-mentioned application.
  2. Provide the number of businesses that People’s Tel currently serves in the core of the exchange of Forest.
  3. Provide the number of business network access services (NAS) that People’s Tel currently serves in the core of the exchange of Forest.

Questions for Execulink:

  1. Provide the total estimated number of businesses present in the core of the exchange of Forest, as defined in the above-mentioned application, and the estimated number of the businesses Execulink is capable of serving.
  2. Provide the number of businesses that Execulink currently serves in the core of the exchange of Forest.
  3. Provide the number of business NAS that Execulink currently serves in the core of the exchange of Forest.

People’s Tel is also required, pursuant to Commission staff’s letter dated 7 May 2007, to provide the total number of NAS in the exchange of Forest which will be added to the public record.

When a document is to be filed by a specific date, the document must be actually received, and not merely sent, by that date.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Mario Bertrand

Director

Competition Implementation and Technology

Telecommunications

Cc: Josiane Lord, josiane.lord@crtc.gc.ca

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