Vodacom not the cheapest

Is this the "Best broadband for your Rand" campaign?
 
And yet Telkom has been getting away with these sort of tactics for years...tsk tsk...
 
ebudae said:
Seriously, can't we just hand over ICASA's work to the ASA?
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Whats the point? All they ever say is dont do this again they say we wont and yet it always seems to be the same companies being ruled against time and time again. :o
 
Nowadays I take those sort of advertisements with an extremely large pinch of salt.

And do my homework first beforehand. I simply don't believe them (voda, mtn, iburps et al) when they claim to be the cheapest.
 
Vodacom submitted that the inconsistency is a result of recent changes in the fee structure of its competitors and conceded that the claim is not currently true. Accordingly, it committed to withdraw the statement with immediate effect and only use it when adequate substantiation is available.
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i.e. they lied.

Of course every cell operator keeps a very close eye on what the others are doing. It's a very small market, so it's hardly difficult.

The people running the ad campaigns also run the information through lawyers and people varify everything prior to release. Often these things are deliberate because they know it takes time for a complaint to ASA to go through and by that time, the damage is done and mission accomplished for them. It is very hard to undo the effect of a big campaign.

IMHO, the ASA should be able to force them to run a similar campaign for the 'correction' and apology.
 
All this does not applied to state protected telkom. You should not believe everything you been told...
 
bwana said:
Whats the point? All they ever say is dont do this again they say we wont and yet it always seems to be the same companies being ruled against time and time again. :o
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But at least they say don't do it again, even with Telkom. Telkom were forced to stop using their DoBroadband campaign ads with teh claim that you could do music, do gaming, do...nothing?

All ICASA does is hold hearings that last for weeks, months or even years and then come up with regualtions that amount to nothing.

Look at the fiasco with the ADSL regulations, or how about the price of interconnect fees. Do they put a ceiling on it? No. Again all we get is a vague regulation that lets operators do exactly as they please.
 
The prob is that Vodacom already got their message accros...now millions of people think it's true...so in their books it's mission accomplished...there should be fines in the form of money here...
 
incaseofire said:
The prob is that Vodacom already got their message accros...now millions of people think it's true...so in their books it's mission accomplished...there should be fines in the form of money here...
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How much money? They make billions a year.
 
incaseofire said:
The prob is that Vodacom already got their message accros...now millions of people think it's true...so in their books it's mission accomplished...there should be fines in the form of money here...
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Yeh, fines....but where does the money go....

I think that they should be forced to "honor" their advert and it's claims and then compensate users who "thought they were benefiting" for the time that the campaign was running...

I agree completely that people have been fooled for the duration of the ad campaign (so "job done") and only those of us who are somewhat savvy and sceptical about these claims, don't believe them or refuse to "take up their offers"...

As far as ASA and ICASA are concerned, it ends up being a big joke anyway...these are institutions that have NO, absolutely NO authority at all!!....ASA...ICASA...oooo..my@$$...!!!:cool:

One BIG GUN example is all it takes....Imagine they told Telkom to honor their "do Broadband" ad...Imagine it cost them some thing like R200- 300 million to do that.....I so wish that will happen....
 
Nothing new. This is typical of Vodacom's tactics. The perception now exist so their work is done. Most people will repeat their claim even in 6 months time.
 
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