A $400 million class action brought by Shine Lawyers against a major Telstra and Foxtel contractor will be stayed after the company was placed into administration three months out from trial.
Telecommunications giant Telstra will provide $25 million in refunds to almost 50,000 customers after failing to inform them the speeds they were promised could not be obtained on the NBN.
Telecommunications companies Dodo and iPrimus must pay $2.5 million in penalties for making misleading claims about their NBN broadband speeds, a court has ruled.
Telstra has been fined $50 million for using unconscionable tactics to sign up more than 100 Indigenous customers with post-paid mobile plans they didn’t understand and could not afford, the second highest penalty ever imposed for consumer law violations.
The city of Sydney has sued Telstra to block the telecommunications giant from carrying out the allegedly unlawful replacement and installation of payphones throughout the CBD area.
Telstra has been hit with a $1.5 million fine from the the Australian Communications and Media Authority for dropping its number porting service during the first COVID-19 wave last year, leaving 42,000 customers unable to transfer their numbers away from or to new providers.
Telstra has failed in its appeal to the High Court to hear its battle with Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the planned upgrade of its payphone network across Australia.
A former Telstra employee has lost her challenge to a ruling which denied her workers compensation for a hip injury suffered after a night out during a work trip, finding it did not arise out of her employment simply because it took place at the hotel booked by the telco.
A judge has found that news articles published in the Herald Sun, Daily Mail and The Australian may have given group members in a class action against a Telstra contractor the “wrong impression” that they would be exposed to a cross-claim if they failed to opt out.
A judge has ordered telecommunications reseller Superfone to pay a $300,000 penalty in proceedings brought by the ACCC for misleading customers and making unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, even though the penalty may push the company into insolvency.