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Abe Maddison

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Deaf non verbal man among inexcusable optus targets | Mind Blowing Facts

Optus has agreed to pay a $100 million penalty over dodgy sales practices. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Optus signed up a homeless, non-verbal, deaf amputee to five contracts and then resisted complaints about its sales practices, a court has been told.

The disability pensioner's plight was highlighted in the Federal Court in Adelaide on Tuesday after the telco agreed to pay a $100 million penalty.

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