Oh, the hilarity! Last year, in a barely contained hissy-fit of Telco proportions, Optus took Vodafone to court over misleading advertising in its “infinite” mobile cap plans, to try and make itself feel better after being spanked by the ACCC for falsely advertising “unlimited” broadband for plans that had data caps. This week, Optus has been ordered to pay Vodafone’s costs for the lawsuit.
Optus felt that because they’d been pinged for misleading advertising, Vodafone should be too, so decided to pursue legal action. This week, Justice Arthur Emmett decided that Vodafone weren’t in the wrong, and ordered Optus to pay costs. Vodafone, for its part, decided to update its advertising anyway, which Optus is apparently counting as a win.
Seriously, the only people who really won here are the lawyers, who get paid ridiculous amounts to watch big companies point the finger of blame in our court system.
[ZDNet]
Alex
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 3:58 PMAnd this is why im gonna do commercial law in uni :P
Sam
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 10:49 AMAlex,
“Ans this is why I am going to do Commercial Law at University”
DrThorne
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 5:45 PMEnjoy the boredom, I swapped to medicine after 8 months of that hell.
Brian
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 7:30 PMAnd this is why we gonna pay more for our future phone bill. Thanks Optus.