{"id":810,"date":"2007-07-30T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-30T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:45:00","slug":"eight-fold-price-increase-only-a-little-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/810-eight-fold-price-increase-only-a-little-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight fold price increase only \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca little more\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peer Iuel lodged a consumer complaint against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">MTN<\/a> with the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) about the company&rsquo;s claims that, &ldquo;Using your cellphone abroad costs a little more than it does from home&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Iuel submitted that the advertisement is misleading as his bill went from a monthly average of R1 000 to R8 775.24 for the month of June despite the volume of calls decreasing significantly.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asasa.org.za\" target=\"_blank\">ASA website<\/a>, MTN addressed the merits of the matter &lsquo;but also submitted that the wording in question has been removed from the website.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>The ASA ruled that MTN must withdraw their claims with immediate effect and that it may not be used again in future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No free HTC TYTN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a separate complaint Mr. Michael Perry said that while MTN advertised a &ldquo;FREE HTC TYTN&rdquo;, it was far from the truth. When Mr. Perry tried to cash in on this offer he was informed that the handset is not free but available at R1 999.<\/p>\n<p>MTN responded by saying that that there was a printing error in the brochure, which will be corrected in the next publication.<\/p>\n<p>Again MTN was told by the ASA to withdraw the advertisement with immediate effect and that it may not be used again in future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=82648\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent ASA complaint highlighted the fact that an increase in cost from R1 000 to R8 775 per month was described by MTN as only \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca little more\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}