{"id":110708,"date":"2019-11-22T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=110708"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:23:47","slug":"vodafone-ireland-ltd-to-credit-72774-extra-pay-as-you-go-subscribers-e417k-following-comreg-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/vodafone-ireland-ltd-to-credit-72774-extra-pay-as-you-go-subscribers-e417k-following-comreg-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Ireland Ltd. to credit 72,774 &#8216;Extra Pay As You Go&#8217; subscribers \u20ac417k following ComReg investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 November 2019, ComReg agreed to an undertaking with Vodafone Ireland Ltd (\u201cVodafone\u201d) in respect of Vodafone\u2019s Pay-as-you-go (\u201cPAYG\u201d) customers. The issue related to the operation of Vodafone\u2019s PAYG offer, in that if a customer tops up by the value of the offer anytime during the 28 day offer, their offer would re-set and the customer would lose any remaining allowances.<\/p>\n<p>In this undertaking, Vodafone agreed to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Refund 72,774 customers that may, in the past, not have intended to reset their offer when they topped up. The total amount to be refunded (by way of call credit) is \u20ac416,971.<br \/>\n\u2022 Advise customers in their contract at the point of sale that their offer will reset if the customer tops up by the amount of the offer.<br \/>\n\u2022 Amend the SMS sent to customers that top up by the amount of their offer to clearly inform the customer that their offer has been reset.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available <a href=\"\/publication\/vodafone-limited-ireland-undertaking-pursuant-to-section-73-of-the-consumer-protection-act\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 November 2019, ComReg agreed to an undertaking with Vodafone Ireland Ltd (\u201cVodafone\u201d) in respect of Vodafone\u2019s Pay-as-you-go (\u201cPAYG\u201d) customers. The issue related to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/vodafone-ireland-ltd-to-credit-72774-extra-pay-as-you-go-subscribers-e417k-following-comreg-investigation\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":103039,"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-110708","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\/110708","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=110708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}