Articles tagged with: Acma and Text Messaging

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 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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