Last November, we showed why a featured promo on TPG’s web site didn’t comply with advertising laws. Not long after, the advert was fixed.Maybe somebody at TPG is reading CSP Central. 
Who’d believe it could happen in Australia ? A trader advertising a ‘free beer’ special and bumping up the price of the main product to pay for it.We thought fake ‘free beer’ ads were a myth. After all, beer is sacred stuff. Who would mislead the public about it ? South Australian wine retailer Moving Juice, it seems.
2008 hasn’t been a good year for Dodo, legally speaking.It ends the year tempting fate with an online advertisement that makes an unqualified and untrue ‘free’ offer.
We think it’s a clear breach of clause 4.1.3 of the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code.
ACMA has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Oxygen8 Communications, following Spam Act complaints that SMS commercial electronic messages were sent by content providers using Oxygen8′s platform.But will somebody please explain why Oxygen8 agreed to some crazy promises ?
It’s amazing that CSPs with the turnover of TPG still produce seriously illegal advertising and contracts.
We reported in November that national ISP / telco TPG was running a plainly illegal advertisement on its home page.But maybe it’s just as well the policy isn’t linked to the ad. It sits next to a trade practices law howler that is better kept out of public view.
In October, ACCC launched heavyweight legal action against 28 parties involved in ‘bundled services’ deals alleged to be illegal.
There’s growing evidence that the same general type of scheme has been run by other groups, including a warning by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. It also seems that well known Aussie financiers may be involved.
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