Seems a bit OTT (if quite correct)
Certainly, when BT sales call you up, to try and flog broadband, they're clear enough that they need your Sky card number.
Budget telco TalkTalk - whose boss Dido Harding probably knows a thing or two about sportsmanship having once competed as a jockey - has successfully challenged a BT advert for misleading television viewers. The Advertising Standards Authority upheld the company's complaint against an ad for BT Sport that featured presenter …
You can also get it for 'free' through Virgin Media TV.
Although if you get it through such a source, then you can't use the BTSport app or watch online, as you are required to have a BTInternet account to do so.
(Although you CAN watch it online through the Virgin Media TV portal / phone app.)
"You can also get it for 'free' through Virgin Media TV."
You mean it's bundled, and you are paying for it? I have Virgin broadband, but I've no access to BT sport channels because I don't buy a TV package. Not that I want to watch knuckledraggers kicking a ball around a manicured field anyway.
So this add wasn't clear enough (was to me but i don't have a business that i want to show BT sport in) but offering unlimited stuff that has an ever decreasing limit mentioned in some small print is perfectly fine? And delivering broadband over coax can be marketed as fibre broadband?
I'm glad the regulators are finally sharpening their pencils, hopefully they'll start tackling the proper ludicrous claims we punters have to put up with like insurances that don't cover you despite intimating it will.
I'd really like to see a law that if you say something's free, you have to give one to anyone who shows up & says ``I'll take it.''
Everything else can only be described as ``included in the price when you buy Y'' if a purchase is required; or you must specify the non-monetary payment (your mother's maiden name, your right nut, whatever).