Published Thursday, December 19, 2019 8:50AM EST
Canadians should expect fewer spam phone calls as the CRTC deadline to implement call-blocking systems comes into force Dec. 19, 2019. (Pexels/Adrianna Calvo)
TORONTO — Canadians should expect fewer spam phone calls as the deadline to implement call-blocking systems comes into force Thursday.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission set a target of Dec. 19, 2019, for communications service providers to have taken steps to apply call-blocking to their networks.
Calls from numbers that exceed 15 digits, or numbers that can’t be dialed (“spoofed” numbers such as 000-000-0000), should no longer reach Canadian phones if the system is effective.