‘Name Do Not Call violators’
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Canada’s Do Not Call list is a farce, and has been since Day One.
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.
Yes. You read that correctly.
Thwe CRTC calls the list an unqualified success. But people are still being endlessly pestered by spam calls and so far, the CRTC has only managed to bring two (2) of the telephone marketing pirates to justice.
Well, not really.
Because the CRTC won’t say who they are, how they were nabbed, what penalties were imposed, or anything else.
According to DNCL boss Len Katz, “the intent is not to drive telemarketers out of business or have them change their names, but to get them to abide by the rules,” says the Toronto Star.
Oh.
Katz’s views notwithstanding, “We expected real vigilance on behalf of Canadian consumers, not shielding them (the telemarketers) under anonymity,” it has New Democrat MP Pat Martin saying.
“Half the deterrence of a penalty is the bad publicity you get as being outed as a scofflaw. This do-not-call list is useless if it does not expose the wrongdoers to public outcry.”
Few things, “unite Canadians more than their loathing of telemarketers, especially those who refuse to respect the no-call list launched in September 2008,” he says.
“They (telemarketers) really are the bottom of the food chain in terms of commercial marketing … We want them called up on the carpet and read the riot act about pestering us at dinnertime.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
July, 2009
abusing its own customers – p2pnet traffic shaping digest, April 19, 2008
unqualified success – Do Not Call List a `success,` says CRTC, January 16, 2009
not really – 1st CRTC telemarketer violation notices, July 8, 2009
Toronto Star – , July 13, 2009
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July 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
The DNCL does absolutely nothing to deter unwanted telemarketers. The fact CRTC entrusted it to the Lord of The Rings (Bell) to manage it speaks volumes. LOTR aides and abetts to profit at the public’s expense whilst the CRTC turns a blind eye. Despite (in spite of) the DNCL, the number of automated and robo calls that assailed my land line after I registered through my telephone company jumped from one or two a week to almost daily. The majority of the calls showed up on call display as 123456789 or some other wierd friggen number that were usually untraceable. It pissed me off to the point where I changed my number to no effect. The calls resumed. Those f&<kers were and are now mining regional phone books.
My advice to the CRTC boss is to take the list away from LOTR and give it to an impartial body to manage the DNCL and provide that body with legal teeth that severly bite ass. I encourage him to do as Mr Martin suggests plus a bit more. Definitely pull the carpet out from under the feet of blatant offenders, read them the riot act but also bring out the riot shield and baton for greater detterence. Maybe, then, we can all have our dinners in peace for at least three or four out of every seven days.
On a final note, I realize there will be telemarketers, as there are now, who will refuse to be dettered no matter what. Some will even go so far as to move outside our legal jurisdiction. Canadian telemarketers who outsource should be touted and penalized for what they are – marketers of crap and telspam. If the CRTC has any balls, they will pursue flouters and infringers openhandedly to curb the out-of-control telemarketing industry who think they can operate with impunity. As for Mr. Katz, please have someone relay his home, work and cell #’s onto me and I will call daily and read him verbatim of all Sam-I-Am’s old postings. I’m confident, after a few calls, he will clue in and understand “DO NOT CALL” means do not call.