Vodafone fined $350,000 for billing former customers

Vodafone fined $350,000 for billing former customers
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth May 1 (BusinessDesk) - Vodafone New Zealand has been fined $350,000 for charging more than 29,000 customers after the end date of cancelled contracts with the country's biggest mobile carrier.  The telco was today sentenced in the Auckland District Court after pleading guilty to 14 Fair Trading Act charges brought by the Commerce Commission for making false representations in the invoices it sent to affected customers between January 2012 and December 2018.  Those customers overpaid about $285,000 for bills that included...

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