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  • Slingshot convicted and fined for illegal practices

    In the Auckland District Court yesterday, Callplus Services Limited (trading as Slingshot) pleaded guilty to 50 breaches of the Fair Trading Act in relation to the marketing of its telecommunications services, under charges brought by the Commerce Commission.

  • Telecom claim 'didn't breach Act' - ComCom

    The Commerce Commission won't haul Telecom over the coals for saying that its XT network reached 97 per cent of the population, a claim the company withdrew after finding coverage fell short of expectations.
    Telecom is adding another 55 cellsites and installing tower-mounted amplifiers — hi-tech hearing-aids — on 420 of its existing cellsites to improve the reach of the network.
    A review by British firm Analysys Mason that was released this month said XT was supposed to provide coverage in at least as many places as the CDMA network that it was designed to replace, but didn't.
    The commission's fair trading team looked into Telecom's 97 per cent coverage claim, but found there did not appear to be a breach of the Fair Trading Act, a commission spokeswoman said.
    "The commission is not proposing to undertake a full investigation at this stage."

  • Ferrit not right on the money

    A Valentine’s Day flower purchase online wilted for Steve Biddle of Lower Hutt when he went to Telecom’s e-commerce site Ferrit to do the deal.

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