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Annual Report 2016-17 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17 P.O. Box 56067 – Minto Place RO, Ottawa, ON K1R 7Z1 www.ccts-cprst.ca [email protected] 1-888-221-1687 TTY: 1-877-782-2384 Fax: 1-877-782-2924 @ccts_cprst ccts.cprst Contents 2 2016-17 HIGHLIGHTS 17 TOPICS AND TRENDS 49 CUSTOMER SURVEY RESULTS Overview What Customers Said About the CCTS Internet What Customers Said About Service CHAIR’S MESSAGE 3 Wireless Provider Public Awareness Activities The Wireless Code COMMISSIONER’S MESSAGE 4 Non-Disclosure 52 GOVERNANCE Board of Directors YEAR IN REVIEW 5 27 WORKING WITH PARTICIPATING Director Biographies SERVICE PROVIDERS Board Changes 6 OUR MANDATE Top 10 Participating Service Meetings and Director Attendance Provider (PSP) Profiles Committee Meetings Non-Compliance CCTS Budget 7 OUR COMPLAINTS PROCESS: PSP Analysis HOW IT WORKS Strategic and Operational Initiatives for 2017-18 PUBLIC AWARENESS 2016-17 COMPLAINTS 41 8 Compliance Program APPENDIX A – COMPLAINTS 2016-17 Operational Statistics 55 CCTS Website BY SERVICE PROVIDER Summary of Leading Complaint Issues Accessibility Issues 64 APPENDIX B – DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ISSUES RAISED STATISTICAL REPORTS 11 CODE OF CONDUCT REPORTING 43 IN COMPLAINTS Background Contact Centre Activities Resolving Complaints and Out of Mandate Issues Analyzing Code Compliance Analysis of Closed Complaints 70 APPENDIX C – FINANCIAL STATEMENTS The Wireless Code Compensation Analysis The Deposit and Disconnection Code Small Business Performance Standards 82 APPENDIX D – DEFINITIONS 48 REGIONAL ANALYSIS ACRONYMS CCTS: Commission for Complaints PSP: Participating Service Provider for Telecom-television Services TVSP: Television Service Provider CRTC: Canadian Radio-television TWC: The Wireless Code and Telecommunications Commission VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol D&D: Deposit and Disconnection WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ECF: Early Cancellation Fee WSP: Wireless Service Provider ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier YTD: Year to Date ISP: Internet Service Provider Y/Y: Year over Year 2016-17 Highlights 2016-17 Highlights Complaints from small business up 91% of complaints % of concluded 15 resolved, 85% now almost 10% complaints resolved within successfully of all complaints 40 days resolved Customers received some form of compensation in 74% of concluded complaints; Average amount of customer compensation per concluded complaint = $267 Wireless Code 180 service alleged breaches providers had investigated down 40%; Confirmed ZERO Code breaches complaints – down by 65% another 93 had 3 or less Performance standards – CCTS exceeded all 4 customer service metrics again this year CCTS ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17 2 Message from the Chair of the Board of Directors Catherine Aczel Boivie Chair’s Message This is my inaugural message as the Chair of the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services Board of Directors. I assumed this role at a challenging and eventful moment in CCTS history. 2016-17 was a year in which the CCTS had dueling responsibilities. On one hand, the Board’s role was, as always, to ensure that the CCTS maintains its historic, proven effectiveness in resolving consumer disputes in the Canadian telecom industry. On the other hand, it was also necessary to prepare for some major organizational changes, both to meet our strategic objectives and to fulfil the expanded mandate set out for us by the CRTC. I think you will agree, after reading this and the Commissioner’s Message, that we have successfully accomplished both. The Commissioner’s Message discusses 2016-17’s also been analyzing the revisions to the Wireless Code and operational successes. From a governance perspective, are preparing to implement them effective December 1, 2017. however, the CCTS was faced this year with a challenging list of deliverables. In its various 2016 activities, the CRTC asked The Board has spent considerable time on these projects, us to undertake a number of initiatives, such as: including the amendment of several key governing documents including the By-laws, Participation Agreement and Procedural • expanding the mandate to include complaints about Code, and the adjustment of our new corporate name - now subscription TV services, and administration of the new TV Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services - Service Provider Code (effective September 1, 2017); to accommodate the addition of TV services and providers to our organization. I want to thank all of the directors for • developing a Participating Service Provider compliance their diligence in ensuring that all of these projects could be monitoring program, including publicly identifying service accomplished in such short order. providers who are consistently non-compliant; In October 2016 the Board welcomed Darlene Halwas of • enhancing efforts to improve public awareness Calgary, joining the Board as an independent director, and in of the CCTS; and her first year she has proven to be a welcome addition to our Board. Under our unique structure, our two other independent • continuing the oversight administration of the recently revised directors are elected by Canadian consumer groups. I am and approved Wireless Code (effective December 1, 2017). pleased to report that these groups re-elected their current sitting representatives, Marina Pavlovic of Ottawa, ON and I am pleased to report that the Board has responded by Jacques C.P. Bellemare of Boucherville, QC, to serve another making available to CCTS Management the resources three-year term (effective as of October 2017). I believe that necessary to accomplish the expanded responsibilities, and the Board is thus well-positioned to govern the affairs of the has in turn approved plans to allow the CCTS to effectively CCTS for the immediate future. meet its assigned mandate. The TV Service Providers were signed up prior to September 1, 2017 and are actively Finally, I wish to offer a word of sincere thanks to the participating. We have developed a compliance monitoring Commissioner, Howard Maker, and to the entire CCTS team, program and we have revised our Public Awareness Plan, to for their tireless efforts to ensure that the CCTS continues to which Participating Service Providers are required to adhere. serve the needs of all Canadians as they relate to this nation’s Both programs will take effect on February 1, 2018. We have telecom and TV industries. CCTS ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17 3 Message from the Commissioner Howard Maker Commissioner’s Message In last year’s Annual Report, my Message noted a three-year trend of declining complaint volumes, and I offered some thoughts about the possible reasons for the decline. So this year, complaint volumes increased by 11%. I guess you never know. 2016-17 was a hectic year for all of us working at the CCTS. In late July we launched a re-designed website. Our objective The Chair’s Message describes the numerous initiatives that was to modernize the “look and feel”, improve the user we had to put into place - and we did, with all members of experience, and re-write most of the content to make it less our fantastic team contributing their thoughts, ideas and “technical” and more accessible for consumers. In preparation time (and in many cases, overtime) to multiple projects for the changes we undertook on September 1, we also that absolutely had to be completed. But we never forgot completely rebuilt our online complaint submission process, about our “day job”, our “raison d’être” - helping Canadian which is the method most Canadians use to file complaints consumers sort out the problems they are having with their with us. We invite you to visit the new site and provide us communications services. We have historically done this work with your feedback. with a high degree of efficiency, professionalism and empathy. I am proud to say that this continued in 2016-17. The year also saw us make a mark on the industry in a number of ways. The highlight was our involvement in the Our focus on helping consumers and service providers CRTC’s review of its Wireless Code. Our team conducted successfully resolve their complaints resulted in almost 91% extensive analysis of the data we generated after years of of the complaints we dealt with this year being successfully administering the Code, and prepared detailed, independent resolved. Of these, 85% were resolved within 40 days of us and impartial submissions as to the means by which the accepting them. And only four complaints required us to CRTC could improve the Code, particularly to add clarity, and resort to our formal Recommendation and Decision processes to adapt to changes in the ever-evolving wireless marketplace. (compared to 22 last year and 44 in 2014-15). This is a The CRTC issued its revised Code in June 2017 and it was testament to the efficacy of our process and to the confidence extremely gratifying to see that the CRTC accepted virtually that consumers and service providers have in it. And you all of our suggestions for revisions to the Code. don’t have to take my word for it. Our customer survey results show - again this year - that consumers found it easy to file Our work continues as our mandate grows to include TV their complaints, were very pleased with the quality of the service providers and the new TV Service Provider Code. service they received from our Contact Centre agents and We are ready for the challenges that come with this and we our Complaints Resolution Officers, and had high levels of aspire to continue to serve Canadians with the professional satisfaction with various aspects
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