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Vodafone New Zealand Admits 21 Charges of Breaching Fair Trading Act
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Vodafone New Zealand has admitted to 21 counts of breaching the country's Fair Trading Act after it was prosecuted in the Auckland District Court.
The case was brought by the the Commerce Commission, and the company faces a theoretical fine of up to NZ$4.2 million if the maximum penalty is applied.
The company was charged with a number of issues, such as its Broadband Everywhere product, which was not actually available everywhere between 2006-8. The company also accepted that claims that its mobile broadband service was the fastest was not correct during 2008-9.
In addition, a prepay bonus offered to every subscriber was not passed on - although that was blamed on a computer error.
Vodafone will be sentenced in September.
Last year the company paid a NZ$82,000 fine after it was found to have mislead customers about how its unlimited mobile internet tariff worked. It also paid a NZ$400,000 fine over its own mobile internet portal access charges.
Tags: [vodafone] [commerce commission] [New Zealand]
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