INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
UPDATE:Telstra has now officially been fined $10 million by the Federal Court, despite the PDB service being responsible for the telco
making $61.7 million in revenue
dollars in penalties from the ACCC, on top of refunds to affected customers that were misled by the service, according to a new statement
and videos and have their costs charged directly to their mobile bill
Those complaints lead the ACCC to take the telco to court, with the end result being that Telstra has cancelled the service effective of
additional customers it believes to have been affected
in touch with the telco directly.While the PDB program has already been discontinued for third-party companies, certain services that
Optus ended third-party charges on January 31, with a comparable list of exceptions to Telstra
Vodafone still offers its equivalent feature (which it calls Pay With Vodafone), which still allows the purchase of third-party products and
services such as games and competitions.
