Wireless Code: Provincial rules patchwork would only boost costs for Canadians

By Perry Hoffman

GATINEAU - The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association urged the CRTC to take national responsibility for regulating consumer cell phone contracts. The CWTA made the comments during the first day of hearings into a wireless code of conduct. Canadians “would be best served by a single set of regulations, not today’s patchwork of provincial laws, regulations, guidelines and interpretation bulletins,” said CWTA president and CEO Bernard Lord. He urged the Commission to adopt a code that “supersedes any current or future provincial legislation in this area.” Under questioning, the CWTA said multiple pieces of guidelines, codes or legislation will only increase...