MWEB has decided to withdraw a claim that the Huawei B315 router offers LTE-A capabilities, following an Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) complaint.<\/p>\n
MWEB promoted the\u00a0Huawei B315 router as an LTE-A product<\/strong><\/a>, despite the fact that it only offers LTE, as part of its LTE service offering.<\/p>\n The Huawei website clearly states the B315 is an LTE router, which supports LTE category 4 connections of up to 150Mbps.<\/p>\n LTE-Advanced, which is a category 6 or above<\/strong><\/a> high-speed version of LTE, offers higher speeds than standard LTE.<\/p>\n This technical bunder resulted in the complaint to the ASA.<\/p>\n The complainant argued that the advertising was misleading, as \u201cthe router purchased does not support LTE-Advanced but only LTE\u201d.<\/p>\n Instead of admitting its mistake, MWEB said it does not believe its advertising – which called the LTE router an LTE-A device – was misleading.<\/p>\n However, it took the decision to \u201csimply use the terms LTE instead of LTE-A going forward\u201d.<\/p>\n MWEB said the change will “avoid frustrating and confusing its consumers”.<\/p>\n The ASA accepted MWEB\u2019s undertaking to withdraw its LTE-A claim, on the condition that the material is not used again.<\/p>\n MWEB has tried to defend a claim regarding an “LTE-A” router, but ultimately decided to withdraw it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35,2490,27659,213],"class_list":["post-253641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-lte","tag-lte-a","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253641"}],"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=253641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253665,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253641\/revisions\/253665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0MWEB uncapped advert now includes throttling info<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"