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Ottawa, 17 June 2014
Our reference: 8740-N1-201317793
BY EMAIL
Mr. Dallas Yeulett
Senior Manager, Regulatory Compliance
Northwestel Inc.
P.O. Box 2727
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Y4
regulatoryaffairs@nwtel.ca
Mr. Phillippe Gauvin
Senior Counsel- Regulatory Law & Policy
Bell Canada
Floor 19, 160 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2C4
bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Re: Northwestel Inc. Tariff Notice 903/903A, Toll Free Origination Services
Dear Sirs:
On 16 December 2013, and as amended on 22 January 2014, the Commission received applications by Northwestel requesting approval of tariffs for the Toll-Free Origination service in response to the directions received in Telecom Decision CRTC 2013-613. Specifically, the company sought approval for the following tariff components of the service: 1) Toll-Free Terrestrial Transport, and 2) Satellite Southern Delivery.
Commission staff requests that Northwestel and/or Bell Canada respond to the attached interrogatories by 27 June 2014, serving a copy on all parties.
Parties to the proceeding may comment on the responses to these interrogatories by 4 July 2014, serving a copy on all other parties. Northwestel and/or Bell Canada may reply to those comments by 9 July 2014, serving a copy on all other parties.
Where a document is to be filed or served by a specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely sent, by that date.
Copies of the document should be also be sent to nat.natraj@crtc.gc.ca.
Sincerely,
Original signed by
Lyne Renaud
Director, Competitor Service & Costing
Telecommunications Sector
c.c: B.Natraj (Nat Natraj), CRTC, 819-953-5081, nat.natraj@crtc.gc.ca
Mohammed Omar, CRTC, 819-934-6378, mohammed.omar@crtc.gc.ca
Stephen Schmidt, Telus Inc. regulatory.affairs@telus.com
Samer Bishay, Iristel Inc. regulatory@iristel.ca
Allen Trafford, MTS Allstream iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
ATTACHMENT
Northwestel Tariff Notice 903/903 A
Toll-free Origination service
In its submissions, Northwestel has stated that it purchases from Bell Canada satellite transport services to handle traffic originating in the Eastern Arctic, and terrestrial high-speed transport services to handle traffic originating in the Western Arctic. Refer to page 3 of Northwestel’s reply comments dated 13 March 2014 in which the company sets out the charges and costs associated with the transport of toll-free traffic to Southern Canada.
For both the Toll-free Terrestrial transport service, and the Toll-free Satellite Southern delivery service :
- Describe in detail the service Bell Canada provides to Northwestel as a third-party service provider. For each of these services, identify whether these services are (i) forborne, (ii) tariffed, and/or (iii) provided pursuant to a negotiated agreement. Identify the applicable forbearance order or the applicable tariff item number.
- For each of the services described in a) above, provide the Bell Canada costs (broken down by individual components, such as Satellite Gateway equipment, Transport Facilities, etc.) and the markup applied to determine the charges to Northwestel. Further, provide the methodology and assumptions with supporting rationale used to develop the costs and mark-up.
- In view of the relationship between Bell Canada and Northwestel, explain with supporting rationale why both Bell Canada and Northwestel have included their respective markups on their respective costs. The response should explain why only one markup should not apply.
- Refer to paragraph 5 of TELUS Communications Company’s (TCCs) comments dated 21 February 2014, where TCC submitted that a tariff should be required for the services Bell Canada provides to Northwestel as a third party service provider. For each of the services identified in a) above which are provided by Bell Canada to Northwestel on a negotiated basis, explain, with supporting rationale, why these services provided to Northwestel should not be tariffed.
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