Letter
File No.: 8180-8/00
Ottawa, 7 April 2000
BY FACSIMILE
Mr. Scott Roberts
Director, Regulatory and Intercarrier Affairs
MaxLink Communications Inc.
1 Yonge Street
Suite 2415
Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1E5
Dear Mr. Roberts:
RE: CLEC Registration of MaxLink Communications Inc.
This is in response to your letter dated 29 March 2000.
MaxLink Communications Inc. ("MaxLink") expressed its intent to enter into
the local exchange telephone market and offer local switched services. It is noted that
MaxLink provided information regarding how it has or intends to satisfy the requirements
imposed on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) in Telecom Decision CRTC 97-8, Local
Competition, 1 May 1997 (Decision 97-8).
MaxLink is recognized as having met CLEC requirements at this time sufficient to make
the further arrangements necessary to allow it to provide local switched services.
However, MaxLink is reminded that it may not offer services to the public as a CLEC until
all the conditions of Decision 97-8 have been satisfied.
You will find attached for your convenience or reference a table prepared by Commission
staff summarizing the CLEC obligations defined in Decision 97-8. This table is an
unofficial document which is intended as a convenience only, not to be relied upon as an
official version of Decision 97-8.
In addition, please be advised that, if you offer your own international toll services
to the public, for which you or your agent bills the customer, you are obliged to obtain a
licence for the provision of basic international telecommunications services. The
Commission's determinations regarding the classes of telecommunications service providers
that are required to obtain a licence to provide international services and the conditions
attached to such licences can be found in Regulatory Regime for the Provision of
International Telecommunications Services, Telecom Decision CRTC 98-17, 1 October
1998, and in the Commission's letter of 19 December 1999 with regard to the Industry
Task Force on International Contribution Issues - Final Consensus Report. Information
regarding the licensing regime is available on the Commission's website at the following
address:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/PROC_REP/TELECOM/1999/8190/8190-99.htm#DIR
MaxLink may be subject to further obligations that the Commission may impose on CLECs
from time to time.
Yours sincerely,
Campbell Laidlaw
Director
Competition Implementation
Attachment
c.c.: G. Gessop, Secretary of the Canadian Numbering Consortium Inc.
J.R. Sarrazin, President, Canadian LNP Consortium Inc.
A. De Caigny, Central Fund Administrator
S. Whitehead, Secretary of the Central Fund Administration Consortium
CRTC Canadian Numbering Administrator
R. Gauthier, CRTC, (819) 953-8608
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