{"id":235364,"date":"2017-10-31T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=235364"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:59:10","slug":"mtn-bozza-network-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/235364-mtn-bozza-network-fight.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN Bozza network fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asasa.org.za\/rulings\/mtn-bozza-mobile-network-vodacom-2017-6644f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>partially upheld<\/strong><\/a> a complaint by Vodacom regarding MTN\u2019s Bozza mobile network advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom lodged a complaint with the ASA over MTN\u2019s advertising, arguing that MTN\u2019s network claims are unsubstantiated.<\/p>\n<p>MTN\u2019s Bozza advertising features the following statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Superior quality when it comes to streaming music and HD video.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that your calls have a 99.9% chance of not being dropped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vodacom said that data from Ookla and OpenSignal show Vodacom offers the best data speeds in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said the latest ATIO report also showed that MTN did not achieve a dropped call rate of less than 0.1% as claimed.<\/p>\n<p>MTN responded, explaining that it has achieved a 99% call success rate, and that the 99.9% claim was a result of human error.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that it did not claim to have the best-quality network, but rather a \u201csuperior\u201d one &#8211; which it interprets as having one of the best networks in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said it and Vodacom have better networks than Telkom and Cell C, and its network can therefore be considered superior.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA was not convinced, saying a reasonable consumer will interpret the \u201csuperior\u201d claim as being better than its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA upheld Vodacom\u2019s complaint, and ruled that MTN must withdraw its \u201csuperior quality\u201d claim with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/223368-forget-best-we-are-sas-bozza-mobile-network.html\">Forget best, we are \u201cSA\u2019s Bozza mobile network\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a victory for Vodacom against MTN in the ongoing battle about the &#8220;best network&#8221; in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":200194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[351,35,42,41],"class_list":["post-235364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-asa","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364"}],"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=235364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235434,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364\/revisions\/235434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}