Bell Canada awarded five-year contract to run National Do Not Call List: CRTC

THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA - Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) will operate the National Do Not Call List.

The CRTC announced Friday that it has awarded a five-year contract to Bell to keep track of those Canadians who wish not to be contacted by telemarketing firms.

The federal telecommunications regulator says Bell was the only bidder that complied with the requirements of their request for proposal issued in July.

The contract stipulates the list should be launched by Sept. 30, 2008.

Bell Canada will be responsible for registering numbers, providing telemarketers with updated versions of the list, and receiving consumer complaints about telemarketing calls, a CRTC release said.

The release also states Bell will operate the list using the fees that telemarketers will pay to subscribe to the list.

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