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File no.: 8620-C12-201401489

Ottawa, 11 September 2014

BY EMAIL

To: Distribution list

RE: Review of wholesale mobile wireless services, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2014-76Footnote 1 – Additional requests for information

In order to assist the Commission in establishing a more fulsome record for the above-noted proceeding, further information is required from Canadian wireless carriers with respect to their wholesale arrangements.

Please find attached additional requests for information related to this proceeding. Canadian wireless carriers are to file responses to the questions set out in the attachment by 18 September 2014. These submissions must be received, not merely sent, by that date.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

John Macri
Director, Telecommunications Policy cc : Kim Wardle, CRTC, (819) 997-4945, kim.wardle@crtc.gc.ca

Distribution List:

Bell Mobility Inc., bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership, regulatory@bellaliant.ca
TBayTel, rob.olenick@tbaytel.com
Huron Telecommunications Co-operative Limited, grubb@hurontel.on.ca
Hay Communications Co-operative Limited, a.schneider@hay.net
Rogers Communications Partnership (Rogers), rwi_gr@rci.rogers.com
TELUS Communications Company (TELUS), regulatory.affairs@telus.com
MTS Inc., iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Lynx Mobility Inc., aahmed@lynxmobility.com
Execulink Telecom Inc., jonathan.scott@execulink.com
Videotron G.P.  (Videotron), regaffairs@quebecor.com
Wightman Telecom Ltd., kgugan@wightman.ca
Quadro Communications Co-operative Inc., barry.stone@quadro.net
Bragg Communications Incorporated (EastLink), regulatory.matters@corp.eastlink.ca
Sogetel Mobilité inc., sophie.houde@sogetel.com
Northwestel Inc., regulatoryaffairs@nwtel.ca
SSI Micro Ltd., regulatory@ssimicro.com
Brooke Telecom Co-operative Ltd., jim@brooketel.ca
Ice Wireless Inc., regulatory@icewireless.ca
Dryden Mobility, jsalina@dryden.ca
Fido Solutions Inc., regulatory.aff@fidomobile.ca
Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel), document.control@sasktel.com
Télébec, Limited Partnership, reglementa@telebec.com
KMTS, reglementa@telebec.com
Mornington Communications Co-operative Limited, rbanks@mornington.ca
NorthernTel, Limited Partnership, reglementa@telebec.com
Globalive Wireless Management Corp. (WIND), lisajackson@globalive.com
Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc. (Mobilicity), gary.wong@mobilicity.ca

To all Canadian wireless carriers:

  1. Provide copies of any agreements concluded or modified with other Canadian wireless carriers since 5 June 2014 which address, in whole or in part, wholesale wireless arrangements (e.g. roaming, network sharing, and/or spectrum sharing). In addition, continue to provide any such agreements upon signing until the issuance of the Commission’s decision in this proceeding.

To Bell Mobility Inc., Eastlink, Mobilicity, Rogers, TELUS, Videotron, and WIND:

  1. With respect to tower and site sharing arrangements, provide a copy of any master template tower and site sharing agreement(s) containing the standard terms, conditions and procedures that apply for tower sharing arrangements between your company and other Canadian wireless carriers.

To Bell Mobility Inc., Ice Wireless Inc., MTS Inc., Northwestel Inc., Rogers, SaskTel, TBayTel, and TELUS:

  1. Refer to your company’s response to interrogatory (CRTC)3Mar2014-11a) in which information was provided regarding wholesale roaming revenues. For the year 2013, using the tables below, provide your company’s wholesale roaming revenues from Canadian wireless carriers and associated traffic volumes, broken out separately by 1) CDMA-based and GSM-based roaming, and 2) voice, data, and text messaging.
Table 1 – Revenue from CDMA-based wholesale roaming
Canadian Carrier #1 Canadian Carrier #2 Canadian Carrier #3 Canadian Carrier #...
2013 Voice revenues        
Data revenues        
SMS revenues        

 

Table 2 – Revenue from GSM-based wholesale roaming
Canadian Carrier #1 Canadian Carrier #2 Canadian Carrier #3 Canadian Carrier #...
2013 Voice revenues        
Data revenues        
SMS revenues        

 

Table 3 – Traffic volumes attributed to CDMA-based wholesale roaming
Canadian Carrier #1 Canadian Carrier #2 Canadian Carrier #3 Canadian Carrier #...
2013 Voice (mins)        
Data (MB)        
SMS (messages)        

 

Table 4 – Traffic volumes attributed to GSM-based wholesale roaming
Canadian Carrier #1 Canadian Carrier #2 Canadian Carrier #3 Canadian Carrier #...
2013 Voice (mins)        
Data (MB)        
SMS (messages)        
Footnote 1

Review of wholesale mobile wireless services, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2014-76, 20 February 2014, as amended by Telecom Notices of Consultation 2014-76-1, 25 April 2014 and 2014-76-2, 5 September 2014

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