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Canada’s telecommunications commissioner accepted about 4,500 complaints in the second half of 2015, 16 per cent fewer than during the same period the year before.

The Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services released its mid-year report Wednesday, summarizing the gripes it received from Canadians about their phone, Internet and wireless service. The CCTS concluded 4,327 out of the 4,562 complaints it received from Aug. 1, 2015 to Jan. 31, 2016, resolving about 90 per cent of them and closing the rest.

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BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Wind Mobile — recently purchased by Shaw Communications Inc. — remained the top three most-complained about providers. About one-third of complaints were from Bell customers, with about 10 per cent complaining about Rogers and 7.5 per cent trying to resolve issues with Wind.

All three of those providers managed to reduce the number of complaints compared to the same period last year, however. Rogers, in particular, cut the number of complaints the CCTS received to 437, about one-third of the complaints lodged in the second half of 2014.