{"id":551114,"date":"2006-12-17T09:52:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T09:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551114-iburst-is-broadband-again.html"},"modified":"2006-12-17T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T09:52:48","slug":"iburst-is-broadband-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551114-iburst-is-broadband-again.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst is broadband again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The ASA recently ruled that iBurst should withdraw its broadband claims since they can not guarantee a minimum throughput of 256 Kbps. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe respondent advised that its maximum speed is 1Mbps, but remained silent on its minimum speed. From the material before the Directorate there is therefore currently nothing before the Directorate to show that the respondent is capable of delivering a minimum speed significantly faster than a traditional dial up connection, or a speed of 256 kbps,\u201d the ASA said. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This ruling drew sharp criticism from iBurst and other parties, and a subsequent complaint about the ruling was lodged by iBurst. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">After considering new information submitted by iBurst, including the company being voted \u2018Broadband Provider of the Year\u2019 by the MyADSL\/MyBroadband community, the ASA withdrew its previous ruling which allows iBurst to advertise its offering as a broadband service.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201c\u2026The Directorate is satisfied that, in the current context, the respondent\u2019s [iBurst] service can be regarded as broadband,\u201d the ASA report said.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAccordingly the claim that the respondent [iBurst] offers \u2018wireless broadband internet and email\u2019 is substantiated\u2026\u201d<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=61381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) which said that iBurst may not advertise its wireless Internet offering as broadband has been overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551114"}],"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=551114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}