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- From: DLEIBOLD@VM1.YorkU.CA (David Leibold)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Canadian Competition Full Steam Ahead; Bell Canada Loses
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 05:02:45 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 12, Message 2 of 13
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- CFRB Radio in Toronto reported today that Bell Canada will not pursue
- any further appeals with respect to the decision last June which
- opened up public long distance competition in Canada. Bell appealed
- portions of that decision relating to the level of compensation that
- competitors to Bell would have to pay to gain trunk-side access to
- Bell's local network. That is, while Unitel was able to offer a local
- number port service (Feature Group A type service), the enhanced
- services such as equal access, 10xxx+ dialing, 950 access and 800
- services were on hold while the appeal was being processed.
-
- In December, the appeal court found that the CRTC did not overstep its
- authority in issuing the long distance decision, and that the CRTC's
- decision could stand. At that time, Bell could have made another,
- final appeal to the Supreme Court of Ca nada but as of today's
- announcement, such an appeal is not proceeding.
-
- Some time will elapse as preparations for full trunk-side access are
- made. The prevalence of Bell Canada DMS digital switches should make
- the switch to equal access relatively straightforward on a software
- scale (those DMS switches have to work in the U.S. environment in any
- event). The costs seem to be in the hardware and trunks necessary to
- connect to the carriers.
-
- At least we're not getting any COCOTs ... yet :-)
-
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- dleibold@vm1.yorku.ca
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