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Do-Not-Call List: One year old …
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Canada’s do-not-call list. Over the past 12 months, millions of Canadians have registered their numbers on the list and filed hundreds of thousands of complaints with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which is tasked with enforcing the law. While the CRTC has found itself subject to considerable criticism for investigating only a small percentage of complaints and levying just a handful of fines for do-not-call violations, a review of tens of thousands of complaints obtained under the Access to Information Act reveals a potentially bigger problem.
Continue reading »Chamber of Commerce Bell, Telus, blues
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is being criticised by local groups, businesses and companies it represents for supporting a move by Bell and Telus to overturn a CRTC decision on net speeds. “Several smaller chambers, including those representing Winnipeg and Manitoba, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) and a number of internet providers say the larger chamber did not consult them on their views — an accusation the national body denies — and therefore does not speak for them,” says , say the CBC . Bell and Telus in March filed an appeal with the federal cabinet to overturn a ruling by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission made in December, 2008, that both companies, “as well as other big incumbent phone providers such as MTS Allstream,” would have to provide smaller wholesale customers with the same internet speeds that they themselves offer to retail customers, it states, going on »»» If the CRTC decision is overturned, incumbent phone companies could offer retail customers faster internet speeds while wholesale customers, who rent portions of their networks, would be limited to offering slower speeds on older equipment unless they build their own infrastructure.
Continue reading »CRTC secret ‘do-not-call list’ talks
Canada’s national telephone marketing do-not-call list has been a sick joke from Day One. Said p2pnet recently, “Run by Bell Canada, itself under attack for abusing its own customers , it’s administered by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), which’ll peddle it to marketeers for a nominal fee.” According to CRTC, the list is an unqualified national success . But the truth is: it’s a serious national embarrassment.
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