Six clients have sued the cell phone operators A1 and Magenta‘s service price and received in court docket. These cellular operators should refund the service price. One case is already legally binding, the attraction interval remains to be working within the others, reported “Kurier” and “Tiroler Tageszeitung” of their Monday editions.
In additional than 250 circumstances, the cellular operators A1, Magenta and Drei averted judgments to whom they paid again the flat price, mentioned the Viennese lawyer Matthias Strohmayer, trusted lawyer for the Affiliation for Shopper Data. Strohmayer is accountable for over 1,000 circumstances, wrote the “Tiroler Tageszeitung”.
Present background on the service price
Dialogue flared up once more
However the Chamber of Labor additionally filed a collective motion in January this yr in opposition to the cell phone operators’ service charges. A verdict remains to be pending right here. In fact, this could possibly be far more far-reaching. As a result of now it is about particular person procedures with particular person clients. The judgments per se say nothing about comparable circumstances – and clients actually can not derive a authorized declare to any type of compensation from them. In unison, cell phone customers at the moment are making an attempt to elucidate that the present judgments haven’t selected the basic permissibility of a flat-rate service cost. “For now”, should be inserted at this level, is that appropriate?
Most cell phone suppliers cost a service price yearly. They launched this in 2011. After the Supreme Court docket overturned an analogous tax on health facilities round a yr and a half in the past, the dialogue about flat-rate service charges for cellular communications flared up once more. Within the new tariff fashions of the three main suppliers, A1, Magenta and Drei, there is no such thing as a longer a flat price price.
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