{"id":917,"date":"2007-08-08T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-08T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T07:12:00","slug":"no-free-mtn-smss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/917-no-free-mtn-smss.html","title":{"rendered":"No free MTN SMSs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Marc Lunau recently lodged a complaint against MTN at the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) regarding the cellular provider&rsquo;s advertisement stating &ldquo;Get 100 free messages from MTN every month.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lanua submitted that the advertisement is misleading because it does not indicate how to get the messages. Upon making enquiries Mr. Lunau was unsuccessful in finding this information.<\/p>\n<p>MTN conceded that the advertising is not accurate and that the offer was only valid until February 2006. MTN claimed that &ldquo;due to changes in staff, the changes had not been checked and updated.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The template was subsequently discontinued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=83576\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent MTN marketing campaign promised consumers 100 free SMSs.  There is only one catch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it.<\/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-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}