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Globe/CP say Telus, others still angering customers

2017-02-07 07:41 ET - In the News

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The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that some cellphone companies are either passively or actively violating Canada's wireless code of conduct and the rules need to be tightened and enforced, consumer groups told the CRTC on Monday. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says that while consumer complaints have dropped since the code came into effect in 2013, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre told the review that wireless users need greater controls put in place so that "bill shock" is eliminated. "Certain wireless service providers have ... knowingly or unknowingly avoided or violated or attempted to change clear wireless code requirements, and have not largely been stopped," advocacy centre's John Lawford told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC review comes amid calls for greater parental control over household cellphone data charges and clearer rules governing wireless service cancellation fees and how caps on data overage fees should apply. The first code effectively killed three-year phone contracts, limiting them to 24 months. That led, in many cases, to higher monthly bills. Telus has suggested the CRTC revisit the two-year limit.

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