GATINEAU – The CRTC today announced it’s approved Aliant Telecom’s application for forbearance of regulation of single-line inside wire services, with some conditions.
Customers without a jack-ended demarcation device won’t have to pay for diagnosis, repair, or maintenance to their inside wires when they have technical troubles.
Aliant applied last October for forbearance from regulation of all residential and business single-line inside wire services on the customer side of the demarcation point, including installation and repair services provided by Aliant Telecom, under the CRTC’s regime allowing forbearance where there is sufficient competition. Aliant submitted that its customers in Nova Scotia had been responsible for installation, moves, maintenance, and repair of single-line inside wire since September 1996, while its single-line business and residence customers in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador had been responsible for prewire, installation, moves and changes, and repair of inside wire on the customer’s side of the demarcation point since June 2002.
The commission received no comments about the application.
