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Vodafone Hutchison Australia Warned for Breaching Anti-Spam Laws

..lecoms regulator after it supported an SMS marketing campaign that breached the country's anti-spam laws. The Australian Communications and Media Authority accepted enforceable undertakings from three companies - Vodafone Hutchison Australia ( more

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Injunctions Granted Against Australian SMS Spammers

..ning 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. Justice Logan gave default judgment on 1 more

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Australian Firm Warned to Stop Sending Spam SMS

..with the Spam Act by SMS marketers has been integral to raising awareness of SMS spam amongst the general public and the business community," said Chris Chapman, ACMA Chairman. In other recent outcomes relating to SMS, ACMA has issued infri more

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Optus Fined for Breaching Australian Anti-Spam Laws

.. 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 provid 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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Fines Over SMS Spam

..the messages.The ACMA action follows complaints from the public."SMS spam is not exempt from the provisions of the Spam Act and is often perceived as more intrusive than email spam," said Lyn Maddock, Acting ACMA Chair.Ms Maddock said the involvement more

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