{"id":72920,"date":"2014-11-10T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=72920"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:48:17","slug":"cell-c-takes-legal-action-against-most-useless-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72920\/cell-c-takes-legal-action-against-most-useless-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C takes legal action against &#8220;most useless&#8221; banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphone network provider Cell C will launch an urgent court action on Monday to have a banner set up in Johannesburg by a disgruntled customer removed, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>The application would be launched in the High Court in Johannesburg against the WorldWear Mall along Beyers Naude Drive and the customer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Letters of demand to remove the banner were issued to both the customer and the centre management at WorldWear Mall on Thursday evening,&#8221; said spokeswoman Karin Fourie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our demands were ignored by both the customer and the centre management and Cell C had to launch an urgent application to have the banner removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The banner, which appeared professionally printed and bore the Cell C logo, was prominently displayed on the wall of the WorldWear Mall along the busy Beyers Naude Drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most useless service provider in SA &#8212; Cell C Sandton City,&#8221; it read.<\/p>\n<p>It gave the name of the franchise manager and his phone number, claiming he had said that his &#8220;unnamed executive head refuses to assist the customer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fourie said Cell C was continuing with attempts to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Cell C banner<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C livid over \u201cmost useless\u201d banner: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72840\/cell-c-livid-over-most-useless-banner-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C livid over \u201cmost useless\u201d banner: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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>Cellphone network provider Cell C will launch an urgent court action on Monday to have a banner set up in Johannesburg by a disgruntled customer removed, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9112,42,26],"class_list":["post-72920","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\/72920","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72922,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920\/revisions\/72922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}