A New Zealand court Monday ordered Vodafone Plc to pay a record amount of fines for breaking fair trading laws.<\/p>\n
An Auckland District Court judge fined the London-based multinational firm 960,000 New Zealand dollars (780,000 US dollars) after it admitted breaching the Fair Trading Act.<\/p>\n
The charges related to two mobile broadband marketing campaigns that falsely claimed its service was available everywhere and that its network was the largest in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Vodafone also failed to honour a promotion offering bonuses to customers, the court said.<\/p>\n
The ruling followed fines of nearly 500,000 New Zealand dollars (406,000 US dollars) imposed in 2011 for six other charges mainly relating to Vodafone’s mobile internet services.<\/p>\n
The Commerce Commission said the total penalties were a record for a single defendant under New Zealand’s fair trading laws.<\/p>\n
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