CRTC rejects expedited review of capacity-based billing issues

The CRTC has rejected the Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc.’s (CNOC) request to expedite a review of implementation issues surrounding the commission’s new capacity-based billing Internet wholesale model, the commission said in a letter delivered to CNOC and industry insiders Friday. Instead, the commission is asking CNOC and other interested parties to weigh in on how to proceed with the review application and the scheduled Feb. 1 implementation of the new wholesale model. Delivered to the commission on Wednesday, the CNOC application points to eight specific concerns about the implementation of the capacity-based billing model devised by the commission in its Nov. 15 decision. CNOC also asked the commission to expedite its review of the issues in the hopes of avoiding any delays to the model’s implementation. The CRTC responded that an expedited review “would not allow the Commission to collect a full record on the substantive issues,” and implemented a standard timeframe that includes “30 days for answers and interventions and 10 days for repl.” But the commission also left a door open to making any of the review decisions retroactive to the model’s implementation date, and asked parties to comment on whether the current terms and conditions should remain final or should be declared as interim conditions only. A third option offered by the commission also proposed to delay the new model’s implementation until after the review is completed. The commission will accept comments until Jan. 12, the commission noted its letter.

CRTC rejects expedited review of capacity-based billing issues

Brief | January 6, 2012

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