OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has announced that telecommunications service providers will no longer be asked to track or report certain data in order to lighten the reporting requirements.
"As part of our ongoing efforts to reduce the regulatory burden on the industry, we reviewed the value of the reports that are submitted to us," said Leonard Katz, the CRTC’s vice-chairman of telecommunications, in the announcement. "Today’s announcement is an example of how we continue to seek more efficient and proportionate ways of regulating the Canadian telecommunications industry."
Effective immediately, requirements such as reporting on pay telephone competition, telemarketing, and tracking customer complaints regarding modem hijackings will no longer need to be reported to the Commission.
Telecommunications service providers will also not be required to file an annual report on the affordability of telephone services any longer.
This information is either available from other sources or is "no longer relevant", the CRTC announcement continued.
