{"id":72840,"date":"2014-11-08T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=72840"},"modified":"2014-11-08T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:32:49","slug":"cell-c-livid-over-most-useless-banner-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72840\/cell-c-livid-over-most-useless-banner-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C livid over &#8220;most useless&#8221; banner: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cell C billboard outside the World Wear shopping centre in Randburg, with the message \u201cThe most useless service provider in SA \u2013 Cell C Sandton City\u201d has been changed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The billboard was erected on Thursday 6 November 2014, containing Cell C\u2019s official branding, and various messages that Cell C Sandton City is a useless service provider.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning (8 November 2014) the 20m x 5m billboard was changed, removing all the Cell C branding using black tape &#8211; but the negative messages remained.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband spoke to the people who made the changes, who said that legal issues regarding the use of Cell C\u2019s branding were behind the changes.<\/p>\n<p>The following images show the before and after pictures of the anti-Cell C billboard in Randburg.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72846\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72846\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72846\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-original.jpg\" alt=\"Cell C banner original\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-original.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-original-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell C banner original<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_72842\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72842\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-change.jpg\" alt=\"Cell C banner changes\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-change.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-change-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell C banner changes<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_72844\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-changes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72844\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72844\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-changes.jpg\" alt=\"Cell C banner changes\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-changes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cell-C-banner-changes-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell C banner changes<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The person behind the banner<\/h3>\n<p>On Friday, a person called Beverley phoned Radio 702 saying that her boss was behind the billboard.<\/p>\n<p>According to Beverley the prolonged battle to resolve problems with Cell C pushed her boss to commission the banner.<\/p>\n<p>Beverley said that Cell C \u201cis livid with us\u201d, adding that that Cell C may try to take them to court. However, she noted that they have facts, figures and emails about their battle with Cell C to back up their story.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C confirmed on Friday that there is a dispute between Cell C and the customer responsible for the banner. \u201cWe are attempting to resolve the matter,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/175804748&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article was<a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/113771-cell-c-the-most-useless-billboard-changes.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/113771-cell-c-the-most-useless-billboard-changes.html\"> first published on MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Cell C banner<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Joburg billboard slams \u201cuseless\u201d Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72740\/sandton-billboard-slams-useless-cell-c\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Joburg billboard slams \u201cuseless\u201d Cell C<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The billboard which calls Cell C \u201cthe most useless service provider in SA\u201d has been altered, with the people claiming responsibility for it saying the operator is &#8220;livid&#8221; with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":72750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9112,42,26],"class_list":["post-72840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-banner","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72848,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72840\/revisions\/72848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}