Wednesday, 18 March 2015 06:18

Telco complaints drop to eight year low Featured

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Telecommunications complaints are the lowest since 2007, according to figures released by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

The TIO reports that it received 29,560 new complaints in October-December 2014, the quietest quarter since July-September 2007, when 26,632 new complaints were recorded.

The results continue a three-year decline in complaints. The last quarter saw a 21%drop in billing complaints for mobile services (to 1,984). The TIO also recorded the lowest number of new complaints about mobile coverage problems since April-June 2010 (1,546).

“This welcome drop is due in part to fewer mobile users with billing problems coming to the TIO,” Ombudsman Simon Cohen said. “Some of the reasons for this positive outcome are new products that reduce unexpected high charges, stronger industry rules to inform consumers about their usage, and a TIO that is active in identifying and acting on systemic issues.”

The TIO also reports on complaints as a proportion of services in operation across the telco industry, serving as a useful indicator of the industry’s performance as a whole. The latest figures show a 12.2% decrease in the number of complaints received by the TIO for every 100,000 telco services in operation. In 2013-14, the figure was 275.5, compared to 313.6 in 2012-13.

During this time, the number of telco services in operation as a whole also decreased from 50.6 in 2012-13 to 50.4 million in 2013-14.

The TIO gave as a case study ‘a small business with a big bill’. “The importance of the Ombudsman’s office was highlighted by a complaint of a small business owner, who was disputing charges that had not been billed on time, and who could not resolve the complaint with their service provider,” said Cohen.

As a result of a TIO conciliation, the consumer agreed to pay $27,000 in valid charges and the provider agreed to waive $120,000 that had not been billed in more than 160 days, as required under the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code.

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Graeme Philipson sadly passed away in Jan 2021 and he was always a valued senior associate editor at iTWire. He was one of Australia’s longest serving and most experienced IT journalists. He is the author of the only definitive history of the Australian IT industry, ‘A Vision Splendid: The History of Australian Computing.’He was in the high tech industry for more than 30 years, most of that time as a market researcher, analyst and journalist. He was founding editor of MIS magazine, and is a former editor of Computerworld Australia. He was a research director for Gartner Asia Pacific and research manager for the Yankee Group Australia. He was a long time weekly IT columnist in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and is a recipient of the Kester Award for lifetime achievement in IT journalism. Graeme will be sadly missed by the iTWire Family, Readers, Customers and PR firms.

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