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Articles tagged with: Acma
Vodafone Hutchison Australia Warned for Breaching Anti-Spam Laws
Vodafone Hutchison Australia has been censured by the telecoms regulator after it supported an SMS marketing campaign that breached the country's anti-spam laws. more
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Australian Regulator Consults on Blocking Unwanted Premium-Rate SMS
..lable on the ACMA website. more
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ACMA urges Australians to report spam and unwanted telemarketing phone calls
..essages, contact the ACMA's Anti-Spam Team on 1300 855 180 or log on to www.spam.acma.gov.au and follow the links to Lodge a Complaint." "If we don't receive complaints, then the ACMA cannot protect consumers' rights. Over the past t more
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Australian Regulator Consults on Boosting Rural Mobile Coverage
..ork to support the proposal can be viewed on the ACMA website. more
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Australia to Start Blocking Fake Emergency Calls from Mobile Phones
Australian mobile network operators are to start blocking mobile phones that repeatedly make "non-genuine" calls to the emergency phone service, which in Australia is a Triple Zero (000) number. The blocks will be progressive and will only come into effect following repeated warnings to the phone owners. more
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Injunctions Granted Against Australian SMS Spammers
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (acma) says that it has been successful in obtaining injunctions and declarations against a number of parties involved in the acma's first SMS spam case before the Federal Court. The matter relates to the sending of unsolicited commercial SMS messages. more
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PrePay Registration May be Ineffective Says Red Tape Study
A preliminary report by Australia's Productivity Commission has warned that identity checks on PrePay phone purchasers are imposing significant costs on both industry and consumer, while not delivering a commensurate level of benefits to the police and security services. more
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Most Australians satisfied with communications services
..CMA's website. more
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Australian Firms Blocked from Sending SMS Spam
The Australian telecoms regulator, acma has won an intermediate (interlocutory) court order against three companies that it accuses of sending SMS spams. The acma alleges, among other things, that Mobilegate, Winning Bid and International Machinery Parts (now deregistered) sent or caused unsolicited SMS messages to be sent to Australian mobile telephone numbers via premium rate telephone shortcodes. more
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Australian Regulator Clamps Down on Premium SMS Abuse
Australia's Communications and Media Authority has announced plans to increase consumer protection when dealing with premium short message services (SMS). The acma plans to mandate a minimum set of standards and a "significantly improved" industry-developed code that sets out detailed rules and procedures for a number of matters. more
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