OTTAWA – Nearly 11 million Canadians have registered their telephone numbers with the CRTC’s national do not call list (DNCL), according to a report released Tuesday.
The most recent status report showed that the DNCL contains 10,786,194 telephone and fax numbers as of April 30, with approximately 80,000 numbers added during that month alone.
The Commission fielded 13,100 complaints about telemarketing communications in April, down slightly from a high of over 13,600 in February of this year. Since the DNCL was launched in 2008, 542,991 complaints have been logged.
Three new investigations were opened in April, bringing the number of active investigations to 156. Ten investigations were closed.
