Letter
Our file: 8695-C12-06/99
Ottawa, 4 February 2000
BY TELECOPIER
To: Distribution List to Telecom Public Notice CRTC 99-6
Subject: Request to revise the process established in Review of
Contribution Collection Mechanism and Related Issues, Telecom Public Notice
CRTC 99-6, 1 March 1999 (PN 99-6), as amended in a Commission letter dated
19 November 1999
In a letter dated 28 January 2000, parties were invited to comment on a
request from Télébec ltée (Télébec) for a one month delay to the
procedures in the above referenced process and/or the proposed revised
procedures as set out in that letter.
The following parties submitted comments: ARC/CAC/NAPO, Associations des
Compagnies de Téléphone du Québec inc., Bell Canada et al, Call-Net
Enterprises Inc. (Call-Net), Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association,
Northern Telephone Limited, O.N. Tel, Primus Canada (Primus),
Québec-Téléphone (Québec-Tel), RSL COM Canada Inc., SaskTel , Teleglobe
Canada, Thunder Bay Telephone, Vidéotron Communications Inc. and Yukon
Government Services.
With the exception of Call-Net, Primus and Québec-Tel, all parties agreed
that the proposed revisions to the schedule, as set out in the letter of 28
January 2000, are appropriate. Call-Net requested that the Commission reject
Télébec’s request for any extension to the procedures. Primus and
Québec-Tel supported Télébec’s request for a one-month delay in the filing
of responses to interrogatories.
In order to accommodate the majority of parties’ views that the date for
filing responses to interrogatories should be delayed while still providing
parties with sufficient time to prepare comments for the hearing, scheduled to
commence on 4 July 2000, paragraphs 15 to 23 of the Commission’s letter dated
19 November 1999 are replaced with the following dates, as set out in the
Commission’s letter dated 28 January 2000 (changes in bold):
15. Responses to interrogatories, addressed to parties on 14 January
2000, are to be filed with the Commission, serving copies on all parties, by 25
February 2000.
16. Requests by parties for further responses to their interrogatories,
specifying in each case why a further response is both relevant and necessary,
and requests for public disclosure of information for which confidentiality has
been claimed, setting out the reasons for disclosure, must be filed with the
Commission and served on the party or parties in question by 3 March 2000.
17. Written responses to requests for further responses to interrogatories
and for public disclosure must be filed with the Commission and served on the
party or parties making the request by 9 March 2000.
18. The Commission will issue a determination with respect to requests for
disclosure and for further responses as soon as possible, and intends to direct
that any information to be provided pursuant to that determination be filed
with the Commission and served on all parties to the proceeding by 27 March
2000.
19. Parties may address supplemental interrogatories to any party that has
filed responses to initial interrogatories pursuant to paragraph 14. Any such
interrogatories must be filed with the Commission and served on the party or
parties in question by 31 March 2000.
20. Responses to supplemental interrogatories addressed pursuant to
paragraph 19 are to be filed with the Commission, serving copies on all
parties, by 28 April 2000.
21. Requests by parties for further responses to their supplemental
interrogatories, specifying in each case why a further response is both
relevant and necessary, and requests for public disclosure of information for
which confidentiality has been claimed, setting out the reasons for disclosure,
must be filed with the Commission and served on the party or parties in
question by 4 May 2000.
22. Written responses to requests for further responses to supplemental
interrogatories and for public disclosure must be filed with the Commission and
served on the party or parties making the request by 11 May 2000.
23. The Commission will issue a determination with respect to requests for
disclosure and for further responses as soon as possible, and intends to direct
that any information to be provided pursuant to that determination be filed
with the Commission and served on all parties to the proceeding by 1 June
2000.
This revised process for PN 99-6 recognizes and addresses the burden placed
on the resources of all parties and, in particular, smaller companies. As the
decision issued pursuant to this proceeding will be a key component in several
subsequent proceedings, it is imperative that the date of the oral hearing,
scheduled to commence on 4 July 2000, not be jeopardized in order for the
decision pursuant to PN 99-6 to be issued as soon as possible. Furthermore, I
note that the Commission’s letter of 19 November 1999 provided parties with
advance notice of the process dates in this proceeding.
Parties are reminded that where a document is to be filed or served by a
specific date, the document must be actually received, not merely sent, by that
date.
Yours sincerely,
Elaine Leung
Director, Efficiency & Expenditure Analysis
(819) 997-4598 |
