said by BliZZardX:They assigned the same b1 and password to another user at the same time?? I wonder how that's possible... the password is "supposed" to be randomly generated with each new account.
It's also possible someone got in your router / house and copied the login, or someone from your family got phished into giving it away not knowing the consequences...
The issue is not about 1, 2 or 3 issues of a b1; it is about the fact that Bell Canada seems to have NOT prevented multiple logins against b1xxxxxx.
I Live in Hamilton, ON with my wife. In 2007 I took a job in Chalk River, ON to work on the manufacture of radiation detection devices and found a place to live in DEEP River. I came back to Hamilton about 1 week in 3. My home is Hamilton, ON.
The day I ordered the phone and Internet service from my employer's phone in Chalk River, the power failed before the transaction completed. The rules are simple; if the transaction does not complete, the transaction is void. It took 2 - 3 days to sort things out because the transaction wasnt voided but a new phone number was applied and the original b1xxxxxx and password was axed and replaced; however; the Internet was active but I hadnt received the mailed package from Bell. I tried my Hamilton, ON b1xxxxxx and password to login and it worked.
Over the next few days I sorted out the proper phone number and Internet b1xxxxxx and password for Deep River.
It wasn't until I moved back to Hamilton in 2008 that I realized that I had used my Hamilton login in Deep River for about 18 months and Bell didn't complain.
Subsequent to that a neighbour got married and sold her house and moved to Brampton. I get home from work a couple of weeks later and my wife tells me that our former neighbour dropped off some Bell equipment. A couple of weeks later I connect my neighbours modem to my phone line and it logs into the Internet, 30 days after she closes her Bell account and moves in with her new husband 50km from here.
Bell is an issue here. Bell modems are being traded or sold; logins are being acquired or stolen; and are allowed to connect to a phone line number that was never the registered phone number when Bell initiated the service and Bell is not correcting the issue.
No b1xxxxxx should be allowed to connect if the phone number on the line is different from when the service was activated or a requested move required a number change.
Unless Bell has fixed this issue; any b1xxxxxx can be used from at least 2 and probably more circuits, across various area codes.
In 2007/2008 my Hamilton area code is 905, my Deep River area code was 613.
Rick