ASA will not impose sanctions against Vodacom

silly,the add clearly mentions 'modem',if anyone feels offended by the speed of the modem he/she must take the manufacturer to task not the sp
 
Kgabogk said:
silly,the add clearly mentions 'modem',if anyone feels offended by the speed of the modem he/she must take the manufacturer to task not the sp
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It is also clear that mentioning the modem speed without tempering customer expectation with average, expected real world speeds is intended to deliberately mislead the average, hypothetical consumer. Unless the ASA naively thinks Vodacom was accidentally misleading the consumer (lol?)
 
Lol, once again Vodascum get away with it ....... any other company and they would have had action taken against them :rolleyes:
 
drukkie said:
Didn't they lodge an appeal against cellc for a similar thing?
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No. A clever strategy (that took most on this forum in, it seems) was to create a perception that speed related complaints were lodged against Cell C. The reality is the inverse. More speed-related complaints were lodged by Cell C against Vodacom and MTN.

Vodacom lodged (and won) 2 cases at the ASA against Cell C; the 4G one and Blue/Red car one. Both rulings were extensively appealed and every new hearing found the same.

IIRC, the only time speed claims came into any of this (during the Blue/Red hearing) was an ad by Cell C showing an Ookla speedtest.net screen running at 21.6Mb/s. Not only is this impossible, but manipulating Ookla's webpage to show the test running at 21.6 was clearly problematic.

Think myBB's got the ad on their YouTube channel if you want to check it out.
 
I just wish that the networks would stop wasting money challenging each other over advertising and rather spend that money on subsidizing their services to their clients. Just imagine how much cheaper their services could be if they didn't spend all that money on lawyers and experts when trying to undermine their competition.
 
Dnigma said:
I just wish that the networks would stop wasting money challenging each other over advertising and rather spend that money on subsidizing their services to their clients. Just imagine how much cheaper their services could be if they didn't spend all that money on lawyers and experts when trying to undermine their competition.
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+1 Why can't they just have some good clean competion and leave the ASA out of this instead of wasting millions on legal battles.
 
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