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Ottawa, 19 July 2011
Our reference: 8740-T78-201110494
BY E-MAIL
Allen Mercier
Director, Regulatory Research
Télébec, Limited Partnership
87 Ontario Street West, 5th Floor St-Urbain
Montreal, Quebec H2X 1Y8
reglementa@telebec.com
RE: Tariff Notice 433 - Call Management Services
Dear Mr. Mercier:
The Commission received an application from Télébec, Limited Partnership (Télébec), dated 7 July 2011, under cover of Tariff Notice 433, in which the company proposed amendments to its Special Facilities Tariff to introduce item B200, Serial Digital Video Local Channel Service (section B200). Télébec has identified its application as a Group B tariff filing.
Télébec submitted that the proposed item B200 constitutes a Type-1 customer-specific arrangement, as described by the Commission in Telecom Decision CRTC 94-19, published on 16 September 1994 and entitled Review of Regulatory Framework.
Télébec did not file a price floor test in support of its application. As justification for this omission, Télébec submitted that it estimated that fewer than five customers would opt for that service, and that the service would generate monthly revenues of less than $10,000 per customer.
In paragraph 36 of Telecom Regulatory Policy 2009-80, published on19 February 2009 and entitled Review of the price floor test and certain wholesale costing methodologies (Regulatory Policy 2009-80), the Commission modified the price floor test filing requirements such that a retail service that is expected to have ten or fewer customers and monthly revenues of less than $10,000 (or equivalent revenue over the relevant time period) is exempt from the price floor test requirement.
Commission staff notes that the $10,000 criterion set out in paragraph 36 of Regulatory Policy 2009-80 applies to revenues generated by the service, not per customer. Further, given the tariff proposed and the number of customers anticipated by Télébec, Commission staff is not convinced that the service would generate monthly revenues of less than $10,000.
Therefore, Télébec is required to file a floor price test in support of its application by
3 August 2011.
In light of the foregoing, the above-mentioned application will not be approved provisionally on the 15th calendar day following its receipt. However, the Commission expects to make a determination regarding this application within 45 working days of its filing.
Yours sincerely,
[Original signed by]
Suzanne Bédard
Senior Manager, Tariffs
Telecommunications
cc : Martin Brazeau, CRTC, (819) 997-3498, martin.brazeau@crtc.gc.ca
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