On Monday evening, many parties filed hundreds of pages of comments, supplemented by expert reports and consultant studies, in response to the CRTC’s call for comments in the network management proceeding.
In addition, another 285 comments had been filed electronically at the time of the writing of this posting.
These interventions add to the record created by the comments filed by the dozen or so ISPs that were named in the Public Notice.
The next step in the schedule for the proceeding is for the CRTC to decide on whether to ask additional questions of the intervenors and for them to file responses by the end of the month. Reply comments are schedule to get filed by April 30.
That would form the final paper record, prior to the commencement of an oral hearing on July 6.
The Commission’s schedule does not currently provide for a final round of comments following the oral proceeding. Yesterday, Bell filed an application asking for a final reply:
The Companies submit that parties must have the opportunity to address any issues or comments raised at the oral stage, particularly given the technical nature of this proceeding.
Their proposal calls for the final submission to be no more than 10 pages long submitted by July 17 – a week after the hearings are expected to conclude.