Wow, now 250MB is deemed acceptably unlimited by ASA.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/245404/advertising-watchdog-250mb-is-unlimited.html
Lame!
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Paul Orrock
pa...@digitalcraftsmen.net wrote:
been there, done that with unlimited broadband
http
Ovid wrote:
--- On Fri, 31/10/08, Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notlimited/
Next we should create a petition which bans pet stores from labelling termites as
cats. Think of all of those poor kiddies whose parents try to by them a
kitten for their
--- On Fri, 31/10/08, Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notlimited/
Next we should create a petition which bans pet stores from labelling termites
as cats. Think of all of those poor kiddies whose parents try to by them a
kitten for their birthday, only to get
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thought this might interest people:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notlimited/
, has there been a
drop in the deceitful use of unlimited, or have the ASA failed to take
action?
If the latter, then it seems worthy to raise the complaint that the ASA
itself is failing in its duty.
Alternatively, iPlayer might manage it by other means, as an awful lot of
Joe Public discover
truth in advertising
laws. (Do we have any?)
The adverts are truthful. They say 'unlimited, except as specified in
the small print', and the small print says 'limited'. It's not untrue,
it's just misleading. I assume this is why the ASA haven't done
anything about it, as 'misleading
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:51 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
FYI, most recent example I can find of this type of complaint:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_45008.htm
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
Yeah. They decided it was just fine to use unlimited to describe a
limited service:
http://www.macuser.co.uk
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:15:17PM +, Matt Jones wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
Yeah. They decided it was just fine to use unlimited
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:51:38AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
The ASA is, however, an industry body and not a government body. What
few teeth it has are made of very soft cheese.
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:09 +, Paul Orrock wrote:
The ASA stand seems to be that provided the user is never stopped or
charged for downloading more, then an unlimited claim can be made
provided you link to a FUP.
Yarp:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/focus/background_briefings/Telephone
An agent has punted me a Word document containing a spec for a job which
seems to be at Guardian Unlimited
strings doesn't reveal much in the Word document, but these seem interesting:
Skills:
Unix (Sun Solaris)/Linux (Red Hat)
PL/SQL
C or Perl
HTTP/web servers
Web application architecture
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