Telecom - Staff Letter addressed to Bell Canada and Northwestel Inc.
Ottawa, 17 June 2024
Our reference: 1011-NOC2022-0147
BY EMAIL
Bell Canada and Northwestel Inc.
Subject: Telecommunications in the Far North, Phase II, Notice of Consultation CRTC 2022-147, Request for information – 17 June 2024
Dear recipients:
This letter sets out a request for information (RFI) related to the news release issued by Northwestel on 11 June 2024. The release announced the intention to transfer ownership of Northwestel from Bell Canada to Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Response to this RFI is due by 19 June 2024.
If you anticipate being unable to respond by the deadline, please advise us as soon as possible.
Information requested
Provide a copy of any written agreements regarding the intended transfer of ownership and control announced in the news release, including all terms and conditions of the transaction, service agreements as between Sixty North Unity and Bell Canada and its affiliates, debt instruments and covenants, and any other arrangements that relate to control.
Confidential information
As set out in section 39 of the Telecommunications Act and in Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC 2010-961, Procedures for filing confidential information and requesting its disclosure in Commission proceedings, parties may designate certain information as confidential.
A party designating information as confidential must provide a detailed explanation of why the designated information is confidential and why its disclosure would not be in the public interest, including why the specific direct harm that would be likely to result from the disclosure would outweigh the public interest in disclosure.
Furthermore, a party designating information as confidential must either file an abridged version of the document omitting only the information designated as confidential or provide reasons why an abridged version cannot be filed.
Accessible formats for people with disabilities
The CRTC requires regulated entities and encourages all parties to file submissions in accessible formats (for example, text-based file formats that enable text to be enlarged or modified, or read by screen readers) for this proceeding.
To provide assistance in this regard, the CRTC has posted on its website guidelines for preparing documents in accessible formats.
In the event where submitted documents have not been filed in accessible formats, parties may contact the Public Hearings group to request that CRTC staff obtain those documents in accessible formats from the party who originally submitted the documents in question in an inaccessible format.
A copy of this letter will be placed on the public record of this proceeding.
Yours sincerely,
Original signed by
Lisanne Legros
Director, Telecommunications Networks Policy
Telecommunications Sector
c.c.: Simon Wozny, CRTC, simon.wozny@crtc.gc.ca
Attachment (1): Distribution list
Distribution List:
Bell Canada: bell.regulatory@bell.ca
Northwestel Inc.: regulatoryaffairs@nwtel.ca
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