Displaying items by tag: Australian Competition and Consumer Commisssion (ACCC)

Flight Centre has buckled under weeks of pressure from Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog the ACCC and has now stopped charging customers hundreds of dollars in cancellation fees in order to get a refund for travel cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The proposed acquisition of mortgage aggregator Connective Group by fellow aggregator Australian Finance Group is under the microscope by the ACCC over concerns about competition if the deal is done.

Small South Melbourne-based NBN provider, Tangerine Telecom, has opened 2020 with a new offering for telecommunications consumers, delivering what it claims is Australia’s most competitively priced 25/5 unlimited NBN plan costing $49.90 per month - but just for the first six months of the plan.