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[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Saturday 09 June 2007 14:09, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >> Today the Bell Service Guy came by early in the morning, while I
> >> was still at home. He didn't knock, he just measured the line,
> >> decided it was OK, and put a piece of paper through the door
> >> saying 'Sorry I missed you since you weren't home.'
> >>
> >> And he left an advert for Sympatico, just in case we were keen
> >> to switch to someone else.
> >
> > That is reprehensible behaviour. No matter what you may think of
> > Pathcom, you should report this incident to them. If I ran
> > Pathcom, I would be quite upset if I *paid* to have Bell show up
> > on my behalf and drop off a flyer exhorting my client to switch.
>
> The first Bell Guy who was here said that they are paid a bonus for
> each Sympatico customer they find.

Even more reprehensible. Bell is clearly in a conflict of interest 
here. I think Bell pretends their service division and ISP division 
are separate entities but this clearly is not the the case. I wonder 
what the Competition Bureau would have to say about this? I know that 
CAIP <http://www.cata.ca/Communities/caip/> members have complained 
of unfair trade practices by Bell and Rogers in the past. Perhaps 
they should launch a class-action lawsuit against Bell. We need more 
options for the last mile so that we can choose our providers on 
merit, not who has the stranglehold on the last mile connectivity.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

<http://dinamis.com>
+1 416-410-3326
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