{"id":39591,"date":"2011-12-09T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39591"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:05:00","slug":"cell-c-60gb-data-sim-packaging-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/39591-cell-c-60gb-data-sim-packaging-confusion.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C 60GB data SIM packaging confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C\u2019s<\/a> packaging for their 60GB data SIM carried a bold claim of \u201c60GB DATA SIM,\u201d one irate subscriber told the <a title=\"Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306365-ASA-Advertising-Standards-Authority\">Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA)<\/a>, but didn\u2019t explain that those 60 gigs are only made available in 12 portions of 5GB per month.<\/p>\n<p>The user also complained that unused data isn\u2019t carried over and that Cell C is unable to provide information as to how much data was used on prior occasions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ASA\u2019s ruling on the matter, Clear Copy responded on Cell C\u2019s behalf and spoke to the merits of the matter, but also said that as of 1 November 2011 Cell C would put stickers on the packaging in future that reflects the monthly breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>All new packs going to stores already carry such stickers, the ASA\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA accepted the undertaking on the condition that the packaging in question is not used again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39595\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39595\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39595 \" title=\"Cell C 60GB data SIM\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Cell-C-60GB-data-SIM.jpg\" alt=\"Cell C 60GB data SIM\" width=\"204\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Cell-C-60GB-data-SIM.jpg 204w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Cell-C-60GB-data-SIM-57x75.jpg 57w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Cell-C-60GB-data-SIM-108x140.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell C 60GB data SIM online ad<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer complaint was lodged with the ASA against the claims on Cell C\u2019s 60 GB data SIM package<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[353,351,355,7377,35],"class_list":["post-39591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising-standards-authority-of-south-africa","tag-asa","tag-cell-c","tag-cell-c-60gb-data-sim","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39599,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions\/39599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}