Cable / Telecom News

DNCL fees top $3M in 2013-14

OTTAWA - The CRTC’s National Do Not Call List levied $3,050,595 in fees in the 2013-14 fiscal year.In a public notice this week, the Commission said that this amount represented the actual fees payable by those persons who subscribed to the National Do Not Call List (DNCL) and paid the CRTC’s component of the fees.  The Regulator also estimated its telemarketing regulatory costs for fiscal year 2014-15 at $3.3 million.The Unsolicited Telecommunications Fees Regulations came into force on April 1, 2013 and prescribe fees that will be assessed in order to recover the CRTC’s costs associated with the investigation and...