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Ottawa, 5 June 2012

Téléphone Milot inc. – Sale of tariffs

File number: Tariff Notice 60

Introduction

1. The Commission received an application from Téléphone Milot inc. (Milot), dated
4 April 2012, in which the company proposed revisions to its General Tariff to introduce item 1.7 – Sale of Téléphone Milot inc.’s tariffs.

2. Milot submitted that it had used the same rates shown in Bell Canada’s General Tariff item 26 – Sale of Bell Canada tariffs, exchange information and directory files. Specifically, Milot proposed the following services:

a rate of $1 per page for the paper version of its entire tariff;
an annual subscription fee of $5.50 to receive its revised and approved tariff pages for a period of one year;
single copies of a maximum of 10 pages from one or more of its tariffs, free of charge, to any subscriber who makes a request.

3. The Commission approved Milot’s application on an interim basis on 19 April 2012.

4. The Commission did not receive any comments regarding this application. The public record of this proceeding, which closed on 6 May 2012, is available on the Commission’s website at www.crtc.gc.ca under “Public Proceedings” or by using the file number provided above.

Should the Commission approve Milot’s proposed tariff revisions?

5. Milot submitted that it wished to submit a response to the intervention that Quebecor Media Inc. had submitted on behalf of its affiliate, Videotron G.P. (QMI), regarding Sogetel inc.’s (Sogetel) Tariff Notice (TN) 151. In that TN, Sogetel also proposed to introduce a tariff item for the sale of its tariffs.

6. In its intervention, QMI submitted that, in Telecom Decision 2011-92, the Commission directed all local exchange carriers (LECs) that maintain websites to post their approved access tariffs on their websites. QMI also submitted that this requirement applies to all small incumbent local exchange carriers such as Sogetel. QMI added that the Commission’s approval of Sogetel’s application should be conditional upon Sogetel’s posting of its General Tariff and its Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) Tariff on its website.

7. Milot requested that the Commission’s conclusions regarding Sogetel’s TN 151 be applied to its application. Milot proposed that, if the Commission assigned it an access tariff number, it would withdraw sections related to access services from its General Tariff and post them in the new tariff. Milot therefore requested that the Commission approve its tariff application and direct the company to i) transfer its General Tariff sections related to access services to a new access tariff and ii) post the new access tariff on its website.

Commission’s analysis and determinations

8. The Commission notes that, pursuant to the CRTC Tariff Regulations (the Regulations), a company shall, on request,

a) produce any tariff on file for inspection;

b) arrange to provide single copies of up to 10 tariff pages at no charge; and

c) arrange to provide copies of any other tariff pages at a reasonable charge.

9. The Commission also notes that the services proposed by Milot are assigned to the fourth basket of the price cap framework set out in Telecom Decision 2006-14. In that decision, the Commission determined that rates for services in the fourth basket would be allowed to increase up to any rate approved by the Commission for the same service.

10. The Commission has reviewed Milot’s proposed tariff and considers that it complies with the Regulations and that it meets the pricing constraints set out in Telecom Decision 2006-14 for services in the fourth basket.

11. The Commission notes that approval of Milot’s application to introduce a tariff item for the sale of its tariffs is not connected with the requirement for the company to post its access tariff on its website.

12. The Commission notes, however, that in Telecom Decision 2011-92, it directed all LECs that maintain websites to post their approved access tariffs on their websites. The Commission notes that because Milot is a LEC, this requirement also applies to it. The Commission notes that this requirement applies only to the company’s access tariff, not its General Tariff.

13. The Commission considers that Milot’s proposal to transfer sections related to access services from its General Tariff to a new access tariff, and to post the new access tariff on its website, to be acceptable and in compliance with Telecom Decision 2011-92.

14. With regard to Milot’s request that the Commission assign it a number for an access tariff, the Commission notes that Milot was assigned a block of numbers from
CRTC 25060 to CRTC 25069 for its tariffs. The Commission considers that Milot can use one of these assigned numbers for its new access tariff.

15. In light of the above, the Commission approves Milot’s application, effective the date of this order.

16. The Commission directs Milot to

file, for Commission approval, a tariff notice to withdraw sections related to access services from its General Tariff and to transfer them to a new access tariff within 15 days of the date of this order; and
post its new access tariff on its website once the company has transferred its access services to the new tariff.

Secretary General

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