If you are unsure about a phone number in a text message or on your phone bill, it may be a Premium Rate Service (PRS) number. PRS means using your landline or mobile phone to buy goods and services. Payment is taken from your credit if you are a pay as you go customer or payment shows on your phone bill if you are a bill pay customer.<\/p>\n
ComReg\u2019s PRS Checker<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have received a text message from a five-digit number beginning with the number 5, for example 57XXX, you can visit our Service Checker<\/a> tool to check the details of any Premium Rate Service.<\/p>\n How to unsubscribe or block a PRS<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to unsubscribe from a mobile premium rate service, send a text message to the five-digit number for the service with the word STOP. You should be unsubscribed within 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n You can also block premium rate text messages from your mobile if you are a customer of eir Mobile, Three or Vodafone. Contact your mobile service provider\u2019s Customer Care to set up barring.<\/p>\n For more helpful information visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Consumer Care team<\/a> is also available to offer advice and support.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are unsure about a phone number in a text message or on your phone bill, it may be a Premium Rate Service (PRS) … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":123030,"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-123031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n