{"id":102638,"date":"2017-10-13T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/district-court-prosecutes-eir-incorrectly-charging-customers\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:51:31","slug":"district-court-prosecutes-eir-incorrectly-charging-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/district-court-prosecutes-eir-incorrectly-charging-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"District Court convicts eir for incorrectly charging customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 October 2017, the Dublin District Court heard 5 cases taken by ComReg against Eircom Limited (\u201ceir\u201d) in relation to 9 counts of incorrect charging of customers for electronic communications services.<\/p>\n<p>Following a review of relevant customer complaints where the customers&#8217; issues were not resolved by eir until the customer contacted ComReg (at which point appropriate refunds were applied by eir), ComReg commenced an investigation. 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