ARCHIVED - Telecom Procedural Letter Addressed to Philippe Gauvin (Bell Canada) and Natalie MacDonald (Eastlink)
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Ottawa, 19 December 2014
Our reference: 8690-E17-201401455
BY EMAIL
Mr. Philippe Gauvin
Senior Legal Counsel
Bell Canada
160 Elgin Street, 19th floor
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2C4
bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Ms. Natalie MacDonald
Vice President, Regulatory Matters
Eastlink
8th Floor, 6080 Young Street
Halifax
Nova Scotia B3K 5M3
Regulatory.Matters@corp.eastlink.ca
RE: Eastlink Part 1 application – Bell Aliant Support Structure Invoices – request for Extension
Dear Mr. Gauvin and Ms. MacDonald:
In Bragg Communications Incorporated, operating as Eastlink - Dispute over billed charges for Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership’s support structures, Telecom Decision CRTC 2014-601, 20 November 2014 (Telecom Decision 2014-601), the Commission directed Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership (Bell Aliant), to provide Bragg Communications Incorporated, operating as Eastlink (Eastlink), by 20 December 2014, with sufficient information to verify those poles for which any other unauthorized attachment charges were applied.
By letter dated 9 December 2014, Bell Aliant stated that in light of the ongoing proceeding related to Review of wholesale services and associated policies, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-551, 15 October 2013, as amended by 2013-551-1, 8 November 2013, (the record of which only closes on 19 December 2014), the key resources in Bell Aliant who are needed to provide Eastlink with the above referenced pole information have been unavailable to work on this request and will be unable to meet the 20 December 2014 timeframe.
Bell Aliant requested an extension to the deadline by which it must provide Eastlink with the required pole information until 31 January 2015.
By letter dated 10 December 2014, Eastlink requested that the Commission deny Bell Aliant’s request for an extension.
Eastlink stated that, Bell Aliant has sent it revised pole numbers from those contained in the 24 June 2012 invoicesFootnote 1 based on their reclassification of mainline and service poles, and the dollar value but not the underlying census data from which they obtained these totals. Eastlink argued that Bell Aliant could not have been able to provide its version of the corrected pole totals if they had not already updated their census data to reflect the Commission’s pole definitions. In this respect, Eastlink argued that Bell Aliant should be able to provide this data to Eastlink without delay.
Eastlink requested that in the event that the Commission determined additional time was warranted, all other timelines also be adjusted by the same time period.
In the circumstances, the Commission considers it appropriate to grant Bell Aliant an extension to the date that it must provide Eastlink with the required pole information. However, the Commission considers that the date of 31 January 2015 to be excessive and therefore 9 January 2015 is more appropriate. The Commission also considers that it would be appropriate to extend to 9 January 2015, the start of the six-month period in which Eastlink is to verify the census data for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Sincerely,
Original signed by
John Traversy,
Secretary General
- Footnote 1
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The 24 June 2012 invoices that Eastlink received from Bell Aliant with charges that included, among other things, unauthorized attachment charges.
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