Cable / Telecom News

SIM fraud release “insulting and uninformative”

PIAC unhappy with lack of information provided The CRTC yesterday publicly disclosed there has been a 95% decline in the total amount of unauthorized mobile telephone number transfers and SIM swaps from October 2020 to May 2021. The disclosure was made in response to a February request from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) for the CRTC to direct mobile carriers to make public the number of unauthorized mobile telephone number transfers and SIM swaps made per month for each of their wireless brands, which they currently submit confidentially to the CRTC. PIAC did not find the CRTC’s response to...