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Advertising Standards Authority investigates breathe ad
News Following last week's decision to boot 500 customers from the breathe.net service, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received complaints from customers who were told they were "using the service too much".
[August 1, 2000, 10:08]
UK advertising authority introduces anti-spam rules
News The new rules come from the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and are to be enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), a self-regulatory body for the UK's marketing industry. The UK's advertising authority has taken new measures...
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
ASA cautions Orange over 'unlimited' claims
News Orange has been rapped on the knuckles yet again by the Advertising Standards Authority over its use of the word "unlimited". In an adjudication published on Wednesday, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that Orange had been wrong to...
[June 13, 2007, 12:46]
Be rapped over broadband speed claims
News Be, the first ISP to launch the next generation of broadband services in the UK, has been hauled up by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading advertising. But in a verdict published on Wednesday, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA...
[January 25, 2007, 11:47]
Watchdog chides TalkTalk over 'free broadband' ad
News The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk unit over a recent TV advert that promised free broadband even though it was not available to all customers. TalkTalk "acknowledged the oversight in not including a...
[September 26, 2008, 10:16]
Vodafone stung over mobile broadband claims
News The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld three complaints against Vodafone for claims made in its advertising of mobile broadband. The standards authority has banned any future publication of the advertisements in question.
[November 3, 2008, 11:09]
T-Mobile, Virgin broadband ads fall foul of watchdog
News The Advertising Standards Authority has taken issue with claims that mobile broadband is interchangeable with its fixed-line, 'home' equivalent. The Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA's) adjudication follows a complaint from a member of the...
[October 17, 2008, 11:32]
Apple's knuckles rapped again over latest iPhone ad
News The Advertising Standards Authority has banned another iPhone advert after consumers complained that it exaggerated the speed of the device. Seventeen people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that the ad was misleading because...
[November 26, 2008, 15:59]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News Ofcom will take on the tasks of Oftel, the Independent Television Commission, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Radio Authority and the Radio Communications Agency. By incorporating the Radio Authority, Ofcom will oversee the move in the...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
PC World escapes censure over Core 2 Duo claims
News The person who complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), whose name was not revealed, suggested that the claim "twice as fast" misleadingly implied that Core 2 Duo would always be twice as fast as a single-core processor.
[July 5, 2007, 17:58]
ASA rules against Internet directory
News The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on Wednesday criticised GC Logic Ltd, a London-based company, for sending a mailing that misleadingly implied that companies owed money for having their details listed on the Internet.
[September 9, 2004, 17:20]
Freeserve ads 'misleading', says ASA
News UK ISP Freeserve has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to drop its current claims that customers can surf for " long as (they) like" after rival Internet service provider BTopenworld lodged a complaint.
[September 11, 2002, 10:34]
Microsoft ordered to pull 'misleading' security ad
News South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered the software giant to withdraw what they termed an "unsubstantiated and misleading" print commercial last week following official complaints from freelance journalist Richard Clarke...
[March 24, 2003, 8:29]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority about this, UK! We have no comparable outfit in the US, so an unscrupulous advertiser like Micro$haft can repeatedly get away with gross distortions of reality.
[January 29, 2004, 17:06]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback I agree, complain to the Advertising Standards Authority. They are supposed to act, even on a single compaint. Flood them with complaints. On a more personal note, I have been trying out Linux and will be making every effort to move over entirely.
[January 30, 2004, 15:51]
Apple tried open source defence in ad case
Blog The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an iPhone ad that claimed the handset could handle "all the parts of the internet", because it can't - particularly sites using Flash and Java. Apple said the Safari web browser on the iPhone was...
[August 27, 2008, 11:32]
Watchdog bites Bulldog
News Bulldog has been upbraided by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for a "misleading" advert, which claimed customers could buy "up to 8 meg broadband for only £15.50 per month". Competitor NTL complained that the Bulldog ad was misleading...
[September 20, 2006, 13:20]
Carphone Warehouse unbowed by 'free broadband' ruling
News Carphone Warehouse will be allowed to continue to advertise its broadband service as "free", despite a ruling against its advertisements by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Last week, the firm's chief executive, Charles Dunstone, wrote on...
[July 19, 2006, 12:30]
Carphone Warehouse 'cleared' over free broadband claim
News Carphone Warehouse will be cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over its promotion of "free" broadband, the company's chief executive claimed on his blog on Thursday. According to Charles Dunstone's blog, Carphone Warehouse is...
[July 14, 2006, 12:45]
Apple warned over 'misleading' Power Mac speed claim
Talkback I believe it's a the Advertising Standards Authority rather than the Advertising Standards Agency.
[June 11, 2004, 18:03]
