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Chrysalis · 20-10-2011, 10:46

more accurately VM said the magazine wrote the advert.

That is completely bizzare, how believable is it that a company wanting to advertise would tell the paper/magazine what to put in the advert and then not verify the advert before publish?

I can simplify it, VM got caught misselling their broadband, quite simple. They then tried to tell the ASA that the ofcom report proved their service was fine but the ofcom report actually said the opposite.

What I find worrying is that 2 VM employees in this thread disregarded bad latency performance as unimportant, as if the gaming market is irrelevant. A total thumbs down to gaming customers. Is this an attitude that runs through the company?

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to kwikbreaks unfortenatly the ASA cant rule on companies own websites, a silly rule.

20-10-2011, 10:46	#15
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,050	Re: ASA points out to Virgin Media that latency is not download speed more accurately VM said the magazine wrote the advert. That is completely bizzare, how believable is it that a company wanting to advertise would tell the paper/magazine what to put in the advert and then not verify the advert before publish? I can simplify it, VM got caught misselling their broadband, quite simple. They then tried to tell the ASA that the ofcom report proved their service was fine but the ofcom report actually said the opposite. What I find worrying is that 2 VM employees in this thread disregarded bad latency performance as unimportant, as if the gaming market is irrelevant. A total thumbs down to gaming customers. Is this an attitude that runs through the company? ---------- Post added at 11:46 ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 ---------- to kwikbreaks unfortenatly the ASA cant rule on companies own websites, a silly rule.