Samsung Stop Mocking at HTC

Samsung seems to have put an end to the alleged smear campaign vilify HTC products through online media in Taiwan. Meanwhile, local regulators will investigate the alleged practice of unhealthy business competition was.

"Samsung Electronics Taiwan has suspended all marketing activities involving the publication of anonymous comments," said a spokesman for Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea.

Taiwan Trade Supervisory Commission has been collecting information and received a number of e-mail complaints about the well-publicized negative comments against HTC phone output. Publications were mostly positive comments for Samsung cell phone.

According to the AFP news agency reports, the comments were published by a number of students hired by Samsung.

On that basis, regulators suspect a Samsung. Taiwan Trade Supervisory Committee members, Sun Lin-Chyun, said it had requested information from HTC, while the Samsung has yet to be reached.

HTC expressed disappointment against competitors who do unfair competition. "We are disappointed that a competitor trying to mislead consumers to discredit our innovation," HTC said in a statement quoted by Bloomberg, on Wednesday.

Based on the rule of law in Taiwan, according to the Sun, such actions may be subject to market defamation, or demands imprisonment for two years per case.

If Samsung later found guilty by the authorities, then fined the company reached 835 000 U.S. dollars.

Supervisory Commission of Taiwan Trade had previously been giving a penalty to the Samsung, at least twice in the last year. For one thing, the Galaxy Y Duos mobile advertising is considered misleading, and Samsung have to pay a fine of 7,670 dollars