{"id":203368,"date":"2017-03-20T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=203368"},"modified":"2017-03-20T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:59:35","slug":"no-speed-difference-with-mtn-50gb-free-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/203368-no-speed-difference-with-mtn-50gb-free-data.html","title":{"rendered":"No speed difference with MTN 50GB free data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) has dismissed a complaint against MTN\u2019s Fri-YaY 50GB data deal, which alleged that free data in the package is served over a &#8220;lower bandwidth line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant argued that MTN\u2019s advertising neglected to clarify that an\u00a0additional 50GB of mobile data which forms part of the deal is put on a &#8220;lower bandwidth line\u201d &#8211; which results in slow connectivity and inferior performance.<\/p>\n<p>MTN refuted the allegation, stating that the complainant was using a 3G-only device (an Asus FE170CG Fonepad 7), which has a WAP Proxy configuration that was affecting his data speeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo remedy the situation, the complainant should either remove the Proxy IP address, or the complainant could dial *123*13# to receive new APN configuration settings,\u201d said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly the complainant\u2019s experience and frustration is as a result of a technical setting, and not as a result of misleading advertising,\u201d said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA ruled that the technical issue was behind the slow Internet speeds, and subsequently dismissed the complaint.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/201390-vodacom-vs-mtn-in-pretoria-we-let-the-speed-tests-do-the-talking.html\">Vodacom vs MTN in Pretoria \u2013 We let the speed tests do the talking<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ASA has dismissed a complaint against MTN\u2019s Fri-YaY 50GB data deal, which alleged that data is served over a &#8220;lower bandwidth line\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[40770,40628,35,42],"class_list":["post-203368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-50gb-free-data","tag-fri-yay","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203404,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203368\/revisions\/203404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}