{"id":655,"date":"2012-04-18T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=655"},"modified":"2012-04-18T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:07:03","slug":"asa-uk-ban-bt-infinity-superfast-broadband-ads-for-misleading-speed-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/asa-uk-ban-bt-infinity-superfast-broadband-ads-for-misleading-speed-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"ASA UK Ban BT Infinity Superfast Broadband Ads for Misleading Speed Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/asa\" target=\"_blank\">Advertising Standards Authority<\/a> (ASA) has <strong>upheld four complaints<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> against a press (a), TV (b) and internet promotion (c) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/btinfinityuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BTInfinity<\/a> superfast broadband ISP service. The ASA deemed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s claims that its service was &#8220;<em>unbeatable<\/em>&#8221; and offered &#8220;<em>three times faster fibre optic broadband<\/em>&#8221; to be misleading.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs usual the ASA&#8217;s ruling comes somewhat after the fact because all of the adverts <strong>originally displayed on 6th August 2011<\/strong>, with the TV advert continuing until 25th September 2011. Interestingly nearly all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s complaints towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> were upheld because the ISP either <strong>did not state its service speeds<\/strong> or the basis for their various related comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important decision, not least because some ISPs have now stopped promoting their broadband speeds in public (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, Orange UK etc.), which could affect similar claims in the future. This follows a stiffening of the rules by ASA\/CAP earlier this month (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/uk-isps-react-as-asa-starts-enforcing-new-broadband-advertising-rules.html\">full details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>VirginMedia&#8217;s Complaints<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1. VirginMedia and three complainants challenged whether the &#8220;unbeatable&#8221; claims in ads (a), (b) and (c) were misleading and could be substantiated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>VirginMedia also challenged whether:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. the &#8220;unbeatable&#8221; claims in ads (a), (b), and (c) were misleading, because they did not state the speed was available with certain packages only;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. the claim \u201cDo more online with three times faster fibre optic broadband. Whether you\u2019re into uploading photos and videos to Facebook, downloading all your favourite albums fast or streaming HD movies &#8230;\u201d in ad (a) was misleading and could be substantiated, because VirginMedia did not believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>\u2019s speeds were faster for all the activities listed; and<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4. the claim &#8220;Four times faster broadband&#8221; in ad (c) was misleading and could be substantiated, because it did not state the basis of the comparison.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ASA ultimately chose to ban all of the adverts, with one particularly poignant remark for the first complaint stating, &#8220;<em>we had not seen evidence that BT&#8217;s download speeds were unbeatable<\/em>&#8220;. The second complaint was upheld because BT&#8217;s &#8220;<em>speeds would be received only by those consumers who purchased the Option 2 package<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. the faster 10Mbps upload speeds).<\/p>\n<p>The third complaint was upheld because BT&#8217;s claim to &#8220;<em>do more online with three times faster fibre optic broadband &#8230;<\/em>\u00a0<em>had not been substantiated<\/em>&#8220;. The final (4th) complaint was upheld because &#8220;<em>the information [comparison] should have been included in the ad<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>As usual the ASA warned BT that its <strong>ads must not appear again<\/strong> in their current form, which won&#8217;t be a problem because they last ran them\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ASA Ruling (Complaint Ref:A11-170900)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\/ASA-action\/Adjudications\/2012\/4\/British-Telecommunications-plc\/SHP_ADJ_170900.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\/ASA-action\/Adjudications\/2012\/4\/British-Telecommunications-plc\/SHP_ADJ_170900.aspx<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints by Virgin Media against a press (a), TV (b) and internet promotion (c) for the BTInfinity superfast broadband ISP service. The ASA deemed BT&#8217;s claims that its service was &#8220;unbeatable&#8221; and offered &#8220;three times faster fibre optic broadband&#8221; to be misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,474,55],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-asa","tag-bt","tag-fttc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASA UK Ban BT Infinity Superfast Broadband Ads for Misleading Speed Claims - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints by Virgin Media against a press (a), TV (b) and internet promotion (c) for the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/asa-uk-ban-bt-infinity-superfast-broadband-ads-for-misleading-speed-claims.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASA UK Ban BT Infinity Superfast Broadband Ads for Misleading Speed Claims - 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