{"id":107943,"date":"2019-05-10T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=107943"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:22:57","slug":"keep-your-phone-number-when-switching-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/keep-your-phone-number-when-switching-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your phone number when switching provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a consumer you have the right to keep your home phone or mobile phone number. This means that if you choose to transfer or \u2018switch\u2019 your service to a new provider, you can request to take your phone number with you.<\/p>\n<p>To keep your number, it is important to tell your new service provider that you want to keep it as you may not always be asked.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to give your phone number and account number to your new service provider which you should find on your printed bill or online account.<\/p>\n<p>Service providers are required to transfer your number promptly and there are statutory requirements which specify the time by which the transfer must take place.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more information please visit the switching provider section for home phone and mobile phone at <a href=\"\/consumer-information\/\">www.comreg.ie\/consumer-information\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also contact our Consumer Care Team for clarification or to tell us about any problems you are experiencing in retaining your number after switching to a new provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a consumer you have the right to keep your home phone or mobile phone number. This means that if you choose to transfer or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/keep-your-phone-number-when-switching-provider\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":107944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}