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Telecom - Staff Letter addressed to Stephen Schmidt (TELUS) and Philippe Gauvin (Bell Canada Inc.)

Gatineau, 22 January 2026

Our reference: 8660-T66-202600106

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Stephen Schmidt
Vice-President – Telecom Policy & Chief Regulatory Legal Counsel
Telecom Policy & Regulatory Affairs
TELUS
215 Slater St., 5th Floor
Ottawa, ON K1P 0A6
regulatory.affairs@telus.com

Philippe Gauvin
Assistant General Counsel
Bell Canada Inc.
160 Elgin St., 19th Floor
Ottawa, ON K2P 2C4
bell.regulatory@bell.ca

Subject: Application for urgent relief regarding Bell Canada’s degradation of its mandated wholesale FTTP service to TELUS

Dear Stephen Schmidt and Philippe Gauvin:

This letter sets out revised expedited timelines for TELUS’ Part 1 application for urgent relief in response to actions allegedly taken by Bell Canada (Bell) that TELUS has stated have affected the provisioning of wholesale high-speed access services.

In a Commission staff letter dated 21 January 2026, Bell was requested to file its answer to TELUS’ application by 23 January 2026, serving a copy on TELUS; reply comments from TELUS were requested to be filed by no later than 27 January 2026, serving a copy on Bell.

In a letter dated 21 January 2016, Bell asked the Commission to extend the timeline for Bell to file its answer to 30 January 2026, and that TELUS be given until 3 February 2026 to file its reply.

In order to allow the Commission to assess TELUS’ interim and final relief requests in a timely manner, the revised timelines are as follows:

Documents are to be received, and not merely sent, by these dates.

Sincerely,

Original signed by

Noah Moser
Director General, Costing and Regulatory Implementation
Telecommunications Sector

c.c.: Rudy Rab, CRTC, rudy.rab@crtc.gc.ca

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