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CRTC looking into inmate phone call rates in Canada following Ontario case.
A proposed class-action lawsuit against the province and Bell , which ran the phone system in the province’s jails from 2013 to 2021 , alleges that the charges were exorbitant.
The CRTC decided in December that it does not have jurisdiction over that specific case.
Bell has said it always complied with a CRTC -approved Inmate Service Tariff .
Ontario changed the inmate phone system in 2020 and it includes both the ability to make prepaid calls, instead of just collect, and long-distance rates of a few cents a minute.
Ontario has asked the CRTC to reconsider its decision that it has no jurisdiction in the specific case.
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