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Ottawa, 28 May 2013
Mr. Ted Woodhead
Senior Vice-President
Federal Government and Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communications Company (TELUS)
215 Slater Street, 8th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 0A6
E-mail: ted.woodhead@telus.com
Subject : Use of Deferral Account funds to improve access to telecommunications for persons with disabilities – Part 1 Application.
Dear Mr. Woodhead:
I am writing to request additional information from TELUS in regard to the above application, filed with the Commission on 29 April 2013. Please respond to the below question before
7 June 2013.
In TELUS(CRTC)28March13-4, TELUS submitted that its website initiative “is consistent with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).”
Given this, please provide your view with justification as to how TELUS’ website initiative is competitively neutral considering that other telecommunications service providers bear the same obligation to meet the requirements of AODA yet do not have deferral account funds available to them for this purpose.
I would like to commend TELUS for posting this application in the Special Needs section of its website as there is much value in making it available at this location given the nature of this application. However, as this location may not be as obvious for other parties/individuals who are accustomed to monitoring the regulatory section of TELUS’ website for information concerning processes open before the Commission, it would be helpful if TELUS could post this application in its regulatory section as well. Please specify the links for both of these when TELUS files its response with the Commission.
Upon completion of the above, a revised schedule will be issued.
Sincerely,
Nanao Kachi
Directeur | Director
Politique sociale et des consommateurs | Social and Consumer Policy
Consommation et politiques stratégiques | Consumer Affairs and Strategic Policy
819- 997-4700. nanao.kachi@crtc.gc.ca
c.c. mary-louise.hayward@crtc.gc.ca
Dist List:
Canadian Association of the Deaf jroots@cad.ca; Ontario College of Art and Design, Treviranus, jtreviranus@faculty.ocad.ca; ARCH archlib@lao.on.ca; petricoi@lao.on.ca; Council of Canadians with Disabilities, laurie@ccdonline.ca; Council of Canadians with Disabilities, ccd@ccdonline.ca; Independent Living Canada, nationaldirector@ilc-vac.ca; Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), Christine.robbins@cnib.ca; Canadian Council of the Blind, mpotvin@ccbnational.net; Ottawa Deaf Centre, newfiedjh@yahoo.com; Ontario Association of the Deaf, dean@deafontario.ca; The Canadian Hearing Society, ckenopic@chs.ca; Canadian Association for Community Living, mbach@cacl.ca; Centre québécois de la déficience auditive, cqda@videotron.ca; Public Interest Law Centre, mybow@legalaid.mb.ca; Disability and Information Technologies (Dis-IT), ine@ccdonline.ca; d_stienstra@umanitoba.ca; Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians/L'Alliance pour l'égalité des aveugles canadiens, mworkman@blindcanadians.ca; Farah.mughal@rci.rogers.com; Neil Squire; Society, garyb@neilsquire.ca; Chris Stark, stark.chris@rogers.com; jeff.in.kanata@gmail.com; Clayton Zekelman, clayton@MNSi.Net; Beverley Milligan, Media Access Canada, bmilligan@mediac.ca; Confédération des organismes de personnes handicapées du Québec, direction@cophan.org
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