@Phreak
When you were with bell did you have paper billing or an online account? Do you recall being sent 5 months of billing? Disconnection notices are generally sent at 60 days past due. Then 14 days before disconnection. And the provider must attempt to contact you 24 hours before disconnection (3× I think?) Disconnection would have had to occur during normal business hours Monday to Friday. Do you recall getting any kind of written notices of this ilk?
It seems to me that it took bell an awfully long time to disconnect your services after you left and for you not to recall the collections department hounding you and then having various less scrupulous collection agencies trying to recover a debt then reselling the debt to another agency and so on.... Has bell registered this as a bad debt with equifax and transunion?
You have a viable complaint for the CCTS to investigate that would require bell to turn over all of their evidence of them attempting to contact you, the paper trail and the relevant dates. If this is the first you have been made aware of a possible outstanding debt from bell then you will fall within the time limits set on filing a complaint against a provider. Don't wait too long to do so as the immediacy of you filing a complaint after this info has been brought to your attention does factor into how the CCTS accepts/handles your complaint.
