Telecom - Staff Letter - Letter addressed to Philippe Gauvin (Télébec, Limited Partnership)

Ottawa, 30 January 2023

Our reference: 8740-T78-202210061

BY EMAIL

Philippe Gauvin
Assistant General Counsel
Télébec, Limited Partnership
19th Floor – 160 Elgin street
Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2C4
bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Subject: Télébec, Limited Partnership Tariff Notices 528 and 528/A –Business Services – reclassification as a Group B application

On 30 December 2022, the Commission received an application from Télébec, Limited Partnership (Télébec), to introduce changes to business services in its General Tariff. The company proposed to introduce rate ranges for the following services:

Télébec submitted that these tariff filings are Group A filings, indicating that it was proposing changes to previously approved retail rates that are consistent with the Commission's applicable price cap rules.

Commission staff is of the view that the applications do not comply with the requirement in Approval processes for tariff applications and intercarrier agreements, Telecom Information Bulletin 2010-455-1, 19 February 2016 that the revision be restricted to proposing changes to previously approved rates for retail services. Specifically, rather than proposing a rate change to a previously approved rate, the introduction of rate ranges changes how customers could potentially be charged for this service.

For efficiency, the Commission will process these application as a Group B tariff filing rather than close the file and require the company to refile them as a new applications. As such, interested parties may file interventions within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter, and Télébec may file reply comments within 10 calendar days of the deadline for filing interventions. Accordingly, the applications will not come into effect 1 January 2023 as proposed by the company.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Michel Murray
Director, Dispute Resolution & Regulatory Implementation

c.c.:
Christine Brock, CRTC, 873-353-5852, christine.brock@crtc.gc.ca

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