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We’re sure most of us have at one point or the other experienced bill shock. This could come from your carrier where you might have exceeded your monthly data cap, or made one too many international phone calls. Not to mention the way carriers charge for services, it makes it quite hard to get a handle on some of the rates sometimes.

Well over in Australia it seems that local carrier, Optus, has been formally warned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for overcharging 237,500 customers a total of A$8.9 million (roughly $8.2 million after conversion) from July 2011 to September 2012. If we were to average it out, that’s about $32.50 per customer that Optus has overcharged. (more…)

Australian Carrier Warned For Overcharging Customers A$8.9 Million original content from Ubergizmo.

Nokia’s started its world tour of local announcements in Australia, letting slip that the Lumia 920 is coming to Telstra’s LTE network down under. Those with an eye on the cheaper Lumia 820 are in luck too, as it’s going to be carried by both Vodafone and Optus Business. The Finnish phone maker added that a number of leading retailers would be selling both handsets, but declined to go into specifics there. Pricing and availability will be announced toward the end of October, giving us hope that everything’s on schedule for a strong pre-Christmas launch.

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