Telecom Sales Practices report coming Wednesday

GATINEAU – The CRTC will release its Report on Misleading or Aggressive Telecommunications Retail Sales Practices at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 20th.The Commission hosted a contentious hearing back in October, a review it initially resisted undertaking, but in the end was insisted upon by the federal government thanks to enormous mainstream media and social media pressure.The feds demanded a report on the matter by the end of February.The five-day long October hearing featured angry consumers and consumer groups, defensive telcos, cellcos and cablecos and a Twitter hashtag, #CRTCforum, which allowed anyone to be part of the report (we’re really curious...