Complaints About Telecom Providers Hit Record Levels Last Year: Watchdog Report

Complaints About Telecom Providers Hit Record Levels Last Year: Watchdog Report
A person uses a cellphone in Ottawa on July 18, 2022. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Complaints about phone, internet and television services jumped 38 percent in the 2023-24 reporting year, says the watchdog that handles grievances about Canadian telecommunications providers.

The annual study by the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services said it handled a record 20,147 complaints from customers between Aug. 1, 2023 and July 31, 2024. It said it was able to resolve 88 percent of them.