p2pnet - rss feed: Canadian ‘Do Not Call’ starts in September
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Accused of throttling its customers, smaller ISPs and users alike, under a five-year contract awarded by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), it’s been tasked to run a National DNCL, meant to stop people from being harassed by telephone marketing calls.
DNCL stands for Do Not Call and under it, Canadians will be able to register their phone numbers for free.
“Currently, each telemarketer is required to maintain its own ‘do not call list’, which you must register on separately to reduce or avoid calls. With the National DNCL, you will only have to register your Canadian telephone number on one list,” says a press statement.
When the plan goes into effect on September 30, “The National DNCL operator will be responsible for registering numbers, providing telemarketers with up-to-date versions of the National DNCL, and receiving consumer complaints about telemarketing calls,” it says.
But there are no promises that the scheme will stop all telemarketing calls, although it will reduce them.
Exempt will be:
- registered charities
- political parties
- nomination contestants, leadership contestants or candidates of a political party
- opinion polling firms or market research firms conducting surveys when the call doesn’t involve the sale of a product or service
- general circulation newspapers calling to sell a subscription to someone with an existing business relationship with the organization
- to business consumers
You can also expect major increase in calls until October.
“The CRTC will grant a 31-day period to allow telemarketers time to update their telemarketing lists,” says the statement.
“As a result, you could continue to receive telemarketing calls until this time has passed.”
From September 30, Canadians will be able to go on the list via www.LNNTE-DNCL.gc.ca, or by calling 1-866-580-DNCL (3625).
There’s also a toll-free number for people with hearing difficulties —- 1-888-DNCL-TTY (1-888-362-5889).
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August 1st, 2008 at 7:40 am
Exempt will be:
» registered charities
» political parties
» nomination contestants, leadership contestants or candidates of a political party
» opinion polling firms or market research firms conducting surveys when the call doesn’t involve the sale of a product or service
» general circulation newspapers calling to sell a subscription to someone with an existing business relationship with the organization
» to business consumers
It should be rather the other way: who WON’T be exempt?
But no fear, there is a wonderful site by Michael Geist, called iOptOut.ca
There, you can opt-out of solicitation by entities who are exempt.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am
“It should be rather the other way: who WON’T be exempt?”
that would be a big list. perhaps you could put it bellow? its much esia to maintain short lists than long ones. 6 lines apposed to every company in Canada - whats described in those 6 lines.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:45 am
Yeah, we’ve got that here in the US. I still get calls all the time. The only way not to get called by people pushing something on you(agenda, charity guilt, products) over the phone is to get rid of your telephone.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:11 am
Re ^
Yes i’ve heard they’ll use any excuse to fit under “business customer”.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:39 am
Very nice of you to provide these other users with your phone number in an easy to gather, one stop shopping list of numbers.
There is a really easy way to take care of people that you don’t want to call you. It’s called, turn off the phone. It’s 100% effective and is a sure fire way to deal with this without releasing any privacy information.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I’ve been meaning to set my computer up as an Asterisk PBX and preventing telemarketing is one reason. (Using my computer as a speakerphone that actually works is the other main one)
August 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
“Very nice of you to provide these other users with your phone number in an easy to gather,
one stop shopping list of numbers”
We have it in Australia also and numbers are not used for information gathering, as they’re already publicly available.
It greatly reduces telemarketting calls, but I still get them from recorded message “services”, who can be fined heavily if
identifiable. They always start with “congratulations, you’ve won a trip to …” etc. Obviously you haven’t won anything, but
after supplying them with your credit card details and other personal info, they’d inform you that your name will go into
a draw. Then they disclose and sell your info to other scammers/spammers.
They used to claim people had won a mobile phone, playstation, ringtone or whatever else they thought popular.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
“There is a really easy way to take care of people that you don’t want to call you.
It’s called, turn off the phone. It’s 100% effective”
How are u gonna do that when u need it for the internet?
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Unplugging a phone, does not unplug the internet.