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Pierre Allard
Director, Business Development
CoopTel
5521 De l'Aéroport Road
Valcourt, (Quebec) J0E 2L0
pallard@cooptel.qc.ca
Re: Tariff Notice 73
Dear Sir:
On 29 May 2013, the Commission received an application by CoopTel under cover of Tariff Notice 73 (TN 73), in which the company proposed to introduce a rate schedule for residential and business services, as well as an exogenous adjustment to recover the cost of implementing local competition (exogenous factor). The company indicated that its application qualified as a Group A tariff filing.
Commission Staff notes that subsection 22(2) of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Rules of Practice and Procedure (the Rules of Procedure) specifies the information that applicants must provide in their applications, and that section 59 of the Rules of Procedure sets out the procedural requirements for the approval of a tariff or an agreement. Section 8 of the Rules of Procedure stipulates that the Commission may return an application or close a file that does not meet these requirements.
Commission Staff also notes that, pursuant to Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC
2010-455, 5 July 2010, entitled Approval processes for tariff applications and intercarrier agreements, as amended from time to time (Information Bulletin 2010-455), the applicant must file this type of tariff application under Group B, because its intent is:
1- The introduction of a new rate schedule which, according to Information Bulletin 2010-455, is a change to the terms and/or conditions of a tariff and, accordingly, is one of the criteria required for a Group B application.
2- An exogenous adjustment which, according to Telecom Decision 2012-36, CoopTel – Implementation of local competition for Cogeco Cable Inc.,
24 January 2012, may be filed as a tariff notice. In such a case, the application would meet the requirements of a Group B application, and CoopTel would have to specify the cost recovery methodology that (i) complies with the regulatory framework and policies in place at that time and (ii) is consistent with previous decisions regarding the implementation of local competition for other small ILECs.
Given that CoopTel’s application does not meet the Commission’s requirements for tariff applications described in Information Bulletin 2010-455, this file is closed.
CoopTel may submit a new Group B tariff application to address the concerns raised above. The application must be presented in the form of a new tariff notice.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by
Michel Murray
Director, Regulatory Implementation
Telecommunications
c.c.: Imen Arfaoui, CRTC, imen.arfaoui@crtc.gc
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