{"id":989402,"date":"2026-02-03T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989402"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:05:34","slug":"polands-consumer-watchdog-fines-orange-polska-over-34-million-zlotys-for-illegal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/polands-consumer-watchdog-fines-orange-polska-over-34-million-zlotys-for-illegal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland&#8217;s consumer watchdog fines Orange Polska over 34 million zlotys for illegal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GDANSK: Poland&#8217;s consumer regulator UOKiK said \u2060on Monday it had fined telecoms operator Orange Polska \u200cmore \u200cthan 34 million zlotys ($9.6 million) \u200cfor illegally charging customers for inactivity. <\/p>\n<p>UOKiK said the company unilaterally changed contract terms to introduce a fee for &#8220;maintaining \u200cthe \u200dnumber in the \u200dnetwork&#8221; for customers who had not \u200cmade a call, sent a text or used the internet in the last 30 \u200ddays. <\/p>\n<p>The decision is not final and \u200dthe \u2060company \u2060can appeal it in court, the regulator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GDANSK: Poland&#8217;s consumer regulator UOKiK said \u2060on Monday it had fined telecoms operator Orange Polska \u200cmore \u200cthan 34 million zlotys ($9.6 million) \u200cfor illegally charging customers for inactivity. UOKiK said the company unilaterally changed contract terms to introduce a fee for &#8220;maintaining \u200cthe \u200dnumber in the \u200dnetwork&#8221; for customers who had not \u200cmade a call, sent a text or used the internet in the last 30 \u200ddays. The decision is not final and \u200dthe \u2060company \u2060can appeal it in court, the regulator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}