By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Back in August 2020, the CRTC found both Telus and Iristel in violation of the Telecom Act and after Iristel issued a Review and Vary (R&V) application, Telus filed one of its own, in November.
While Iristel had been determined guilty of traffic stimulation with area code 867 calls, Telus was accused of taking matters in its own hands and ending the practice by not connecting what it identified as dubious calls.
Iristel retorted on December 14, arguing that Telus was, in fact, violating the Telecommunications Act and restated the case of a lady, living Northwest Territories that could not take calls from her hospital in Edmonton in relation to an upcoming surgery. That was the topic of a story on CBC back in September 2018.
Iristel is also reiterating that it was not shaping traffic but argues in its intervention:” However, even if Iristel had been engaged in traffic stimulation, which it was not, the Commission must not condone Telus’s response of reducing capacity on certain toll transit circuits such that calls to Iristel’s NP 867 numbers could not always be completed.”
Cartt.ca hopes that calls to Santa were not impacted by this dispute and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a super 2021.
