Articles tagged with: Acma and Spam
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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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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Australian Firm Warned to Stop Sending Spam SMS
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued a formal warning to PR Marketing and Media Group Pty Ltd, a mobile telephone subscription chat service, for allegedly contravening the Spam Act 2003. more
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Optus Fined for Breaching Australian Anti-Spam Laws
Australian mobile operator, Optus has been fined AU$110,000 (US$74,000) by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (acma) for breaches of the country's anti-spam legislation. The infringement notices were in relation to 20,000 commercial electronic messages sent by Optus that acma alleges failed to provide clear and accurate sender identification. more
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Australian SMS Firm Agrees to Abide by Anti-Spam Laws
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Oxygen8 Communications, after investigating complaints under the Spam Act 2003 that commercial messages in the form of SMS were sent by content providers using Oxygen8 CommunicationsÃ' technology platforms. more
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mBlox Fined for Sending SMS Spam
Mobile billing provider, mBlox has paid a penalty of AU$11,000 (US$7,153) after the Australian Communications and Media Authority issued it with an infringement notice for alleged contraventions of the Spam Act 2003. more
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined two companies a total of US$10,000 (AU$13,200) for breaches of the Spam Act 2003. acma found the companies sent out more than fifty thousand commercial SMS messages marketing an investment scheme for software providing horse racing tips. more
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