Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission handed Samsung a NT 10 million ($340,000) fine for undermining the reputation of HTC, which is based in Taiwan. According to the FTC, Samsung organized an Internet campaign praising their own phones while slamming HTC phones and is a violation of fair trade rules. The FTC also fined two other Taiwanese trading companies that were instrumental in creating the campaign.
This isn’t the first time the FTC came down on Samsung. Earlier in the year, they received a NT 300,000 ($10,000) fine for misleading consumers in their advertisements of the Galaxy Y Duos GT-S6102 smartphone.
source: AP
via: Phone Arena
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