Vodafone wins summary proceedings against Dutch Consumer Association regarding text messaging services
On 2 February 2010, the district court in The Hague ruled that Vodafone does not need to modify its third-party debt collection policy for text messaging services. NautaDutilh assisted Vodafone in this case.
The district court made its ruling on summary proceedings instituted by the Dutch Consumer Association (‘Consumentenbond’). The Consumer Association demanded that Vodafone should end its reverse billing system, claiming that Vodafone was extracting money from its end-users “gratuitously” for unsolicited text messages.
The court decided in Vodafone’s favour on all counts and acceded to Vodafone’s demand that the Consumer Association should issue a full public apology.
Vodafone was assisted by
Piet Sippens Groenewegen and
Danielle Sampermans.