The number (416) 493-7703 is being displayed in the calling ID by Nanos Research. Simply send John Nanos an email stating that you dont like the way his company is making the calls and that it is in violation of the CRTC policy's and procedures setup for telemarketers.

Nanos Research Toronto
John Nanos
Senior Vice President, Nanos Research
(416) 493-1965 ext.223
jnanos @ nanosresearch.com

Also file an official CRTC complaint here.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/warning.asp?page=TelemarkEng.htm&lang=E#

Dave Wilson
davew @ nbnet.nb.ca

I've been getting calls from this number as well.  Nobody says anything when I answer the phone.

This should be made illegal and we, consumers as a group should do sometihng to stop this none-sense. I am fed up and frustrated with the TM calling - and I think that I like the billing system that everytime someone call me, I will get paid for a dollar - I know that it is bad for my friends to call me. Eventually we will win - everybody will win - at least it will make the TM pay for their prank calls - I think that I will be rich just answering these prank calls.

this # has been calling for 4-5 days now ...twice on the 8th .
I called it back and it says the # is not assigned. grrrr.

I received a call from (416) 493-7703 and the person on the other end of the line told me that they were conducting a "5 minute" survey on the Ottawa recycling program.  I told her sure I would be willing to answer the questions. She then proceeded to rapidly ask me questions that were garbled and not easily understood.  When I questioned her about one of the questions she responded like a robot...I asked if I could speak with her supervisor, did she have a supervisor, as I didn't think she was doing a very good job in asking the questions...this is after being on the phone for approximately 20 minutes for the 5-minute survey. She hung up the phone.Why is a Toronto area code doing a survey for Ottawa and area?  This makes no sense to me.

Tried calling the number back but got fast busy--fast busy is usually indicative of network trouble, somewhere.