{"id":20528,"date":"2013-06-03T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2013-06-03T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:54:44","slug":"crtc-rule-changes-may-finally-signal-the-end-of-the-three-year-phone-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/crtc-rule-changes-may-finally-signal-the-end-of-the-three-year-phone-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"CRTC rule changes may finally signal the end of the three-year phone contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/06\/03\/new-code-lets-customers-cancel-phone-contracts-without-penalty-after-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Rennie<\/a> outlines the new cell phone rules to come into effect later this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wireless customers will be able to cancel their cellphone contracts after two years without any penalties \u2014 even if they\u2019ve signed up for longer terms \u2014 under a new set of rules unveiled Monday by the federal telecom regulator.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission didn\u2019t go as far as an outright ban on the three-year contracts that Canadians vented so much about earlier this year as the national code for wireless services was being drafted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t focus on the length of the contract, we focused on the economic relation,\u201d CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, in effect, it\u2019s equivalent to those asking for a ban of three-year contract without us actually banning three-year contracts, because what we\u2019re saying is the contract\u2019s amortization period can only be for a maximum period of 24 months.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also good news for those who travel with their cell phones (that&#8217;d be pretty much every Canadian traveller these days):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CRTC is also capping extra data charges at $50 per month and international data roaming charges at $100 per month to avoid huge, surprise bills.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator will require providers to allow customers to unlock their devices after 90 days, or immediately if they pay the full amount of the device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maclean&#8217;s, Steve Rennie outlines the new cell phone rules to come into effect later this year: Wireless customers will be able to cancel their cellphone contracts after two years without any penalties \u2014 even if they\u2019ve signed up for longer terms \u2014 under a new set of rules unveiled Monday by the federal telecom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,15],"tags":[676,660,547],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-technology","tag-crtc","tag-deregulation","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}