ARCHIVED - Telecom Commission Letter addressed to Russ Friesen (MTS Allstream)
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Ottawa, 10 October 2014
BY EMAIL
Mr. Russ Friesen
Vice President, Regulatory
MTS Allstream
P.O. Box 6666, MP19C
333 Main Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3V6
iworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Subject: Follow-up to Decision 2014-377, Report on MTS’s plan for the disposal of funds remaining in its deferral account
Dear Mr. Friesen:
In a 16 September 2014 letter to the Commission, MTS Inc. filed a plan for the disposal of its remaining deferral account funds earmarked for accessibility initiatives pursuant to the direction of the Commission in Decision 2014-377. In its filing, MTS requested approval for a drawdown from its deferral account for its proposed voicemail to email service.
In Telecom Decision 2008-1, the Commission found that a public proceeding is the appropriate vehicle to ensure that the accessibility proposals meet the requirements of persons with disabilities and Telecom Decision 2006-9. To allow for public comment on the MTS proposal, staff considers that it would be appropriate for the MTS proposal to be treated as an application. Staff requests MTS to send a copy of its submission of
16 September 2014, to the individuals and organizations on the distribution list to this letter and to advise staff when this has been done. Once staff has been advised that this has been done, the present MTS proposal will be posted on the Commission’s website and disposed of as a Part 1 application, with the deadlines for comment and reply as set out in the CRTC Rules of Practice and Procedure. If you have any questions about this matter, please contact Antica Corner at 819-997-1334 or antica.corner@crtc.gc.ca.
Sincerely,
[Original Signed]
Nanao Kachi
Director, Social & Consumer Policy
Consumer Affairs and Strategic Planning
c.c.: Antica Corner, CRTC antica.corner@crtc.gc.ca
Distribution List
Canadian Association of the Deaf jroots@cad.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
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
bell.regulatory@bell.ca
regulatory.affairs@telus.com
document.control@sasktel.sk.ca
regaffairs@quebecor.com
telecom.regulatory@cogeco.com
Regulatory@sjrb.ca
alexander.adeyinka@rci.rogers.com
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