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Ottawa, 15 May 2012
Our reference: 8740-M59-201110981
By Email
Mr. John Maksimow
Tariffs Manager, Regulatory Affairs
MTS Allstream
P.O. Box 6666, MP19C
333 Main Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 3V6
john.maksimow@mtsallstream.com
RE: MTS Allstream Tariff Notice 715
Dear Mr. Maksimow:
On 15 July 2011, the Commission received an application by MTS Allstream Inc. (now MTS Inc.), under Tariff Notice 715, in which MTS Allstream proposed revisions to its Access Services Tariff item 110 – Co-location Arrangements for Interconnecting Canadian Carriers and Digital Subscriber Line Service Providers. MTS Allstream submitted that it was modifying the tariff wording for the terms and conditions for the provision of links between interconnecting carriers (IC-to-IC links) to reflect the Commission’s determinations in Globility Communications Corporation – Application regarding provision of links between interconnecting carriers in central offices, Telecom Decision CRTC 2011-355, 31 May 2011 (Telecom Decision 2011-355). The company indicated that its application is a competitor tariff filing.
In Telecom Decision 2011-355, the Commission approved Globility Communications Corporation’s (Globility) request that (a) a co-located competitor be permitted to use IC-to-IC links connected to facilities provided by another co-located competitor to route all its traffic to its point of presence outside a central office, and (b) ILECs be directed to file tariffs to provide higher-capacity IC-to-IC links. These changes effectively removed the co-location rule that had required competitors to use co-location services primarily to connect with the ILEC’s facilities.
Further, the Commission directed that ILECs’ tariffs for IC-to-IC links should state that all traffic carried over the IC-to-IC links must be routed directly to the competitor’s point of presence outside the central office, with no hubs or switching of any of the traffic inside the ILEC’s central office (the switching and routing restriction).
In Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership and Bell Canada – Application to review and vary Telecom Decision 2011-355 pertaining to the co-location rule, Telecom Decision 2012-209, 5 April 2012, among other things, the Commission reinstated the co-location rule and removed the switching and routing restriction on the tariffs for links between co-located competitors.
Consequently, MTS Allstream’s proposed revisions are not required and, this application is therefore closed.
Yours sincerely,
‘Original signed by M. Murray’
Michel Murray
Director, Decisions and Operations
Telecommunications
cc: Joseph Cabrera, CRTC (819) 934-6352, joseph.cabrera@crtc.gc.ca
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