{"id":77636,"date":"2013-05-14T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=77636"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:10:36","slug":"vodacom-limitless-price-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/77636-vodacom-limitless-price-mistake.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Limitless price mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online advertisement for <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a>\u2019s Red \u201cLimitless\u201d price plans which contained the incorrect pricing of R999 per month resulted in a successful Advertising Standard Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"ASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306365-ASA-Advertising-Standards-Authority\">ASA<\/a>) complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom\u2019s advertisement claimed that users can get unlimited minutes and text on its limitless Red price plan from R999 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Nitesh Maharaj lodged a complaint with the ASA, saying that the advertising was misleading as one can only receive \u201cLimitless\u201d minutes at R1,999 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom, through its advertising agency, said that the web advert erroneously communicated \u201cFrom R999 pm Limitless minutes &amp; SMS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom committed to correct its website to show that limitless minutes and SMS is only available on the Red VIP package priced at R1,999 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA accepted Vodacom\u2019s commitment without ruling on the matter. However, it noted that at the time of finalising this ruling, the amendments had not yet occurred.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom&#8217;s Limitless service<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Unlimited vs Limitless: Vodacom hits back at Telkom Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/77228-unlimited-vs-limitless-vodacom-hits-back-at-telkom-mobile.html\"><strong>Unlimited vs Limitless: Vodacom hits back at Telkom Mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom Mobile nails Vodacom in \u201cUnlimited\u201d ad\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/76087-telkom-mobile-nails-vodacom-in-unlimited-ad.html\"><strong>Telkom Mobile nails Vodacom in \u201cUnlimited\u201d ad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom unlimited voice contract confirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/71494-vodacom-unlimited-voice-contract-confirmed.html\"><strong>Vodacom unlimited voice contract confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom\u2019s new Smart, Red contracts compared\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/72518-vodacoms-new-smart-red-contracts-compared.html\"><strong>Vodacom\u2019s new Smart, Red contracts compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pricing mistake related to Vodacom\u2019s Red Limitless plan results in an ASA complaint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76276,"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":[14],"tags":[35,19430,19432,41],"class_list":["post-77636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-limitless","tag-red-vip","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77636"}],"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=77636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77708,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77636\/revisions\/77708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}