Callplus Services Limited
Callplus Services Limited (specifically two of its retail brands, Slingshot & Orcon) has been warned for likely breaches of sections 11, 13(e) and 13(h) of the Fair Trading Act. Callplus engaged in conduct liable to mislead the public as to the characteristics and/or suitability of its wiring & maintenance service by offering it for sale to naked fibre customers and invoicing those affected customers for the service, despite it being unsuitable for naked fibre broadband connections. Callplus made misleading representations that naked fibre connection customers had a use, benefit, or need for the wiring & maintenance service by invoicing those affected customers for the service and by failing to inform the affected customers (and any potential naked fibre broadband customers) that the service was not applicable/beneficial for those connections.
Case Details
Parties
Callplus Services Limited
Category
Consumer
Sub-category
Act/Section
Fair Trading Act 1986 13(e), 13(h)
Industry
Telecommunications
Status
Closed
Outcome
Warning letter
Case Number
Date opened
22 August 2022
Date closed
17 January 2024
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