Australian Communications and Media Authority says telco did not check welfare of 369 people who tried to make a call while lines were down

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/25891803

Australian Communications and Media Authority says telco did not check welfare of 369 people who tried to make a call while lines were down

    • SalvoEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      The ramifications of this is the black-listing of dozens of VoLTE phones following the 3G shutdown. This government slap-on-the-wrist has given Optus, Telstra and Vodafone carte-blanche to tell customers “you didn’t buy the phone from us, so we can’t guarantee you can make calls”.

      • Quokka 🇦🇺@mastodon.au
        3·
        14 days ago

        @Salvo @MorpheusB Cos who doesn’t like paying network’s prices for their choice of handsets with their bloatware running on their choice of OS? I really want ACCC to hit them with a massive stick over this.

        • SalvoEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          It will get messy because they can fall back on “the government told us to do this so ACCC can’t touch us”. Lawyers will win; Government will lose, Telcos will lose and consumers will lose big time!