{"id":123659,"date":"2023-02-17T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=123659"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:04:47","slug":"can-i-still-get-a-paper-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/can-i-still-get-a-paper-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I still get a paper bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many consumers may find online bills and usage tools convenient, some may have difficulties accessing and using their bill electronically for a variety of reasons particular to them. If you cannot access and use an electronic bill, you are entitled to a paper bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Voice Only Phone Services<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have a voice only service and do not have broadband, you are entitled to a paper bill in the post, free-of-charge, from your phone service provider.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Phone and Internet Services<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can request paper billing, free of charge, from your service provider if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cannot reasonably access or use an electronic bill after you receive it;<\/li>\n<li>have a disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once a customer can access and use an electronic bill, service providers may provide electronic bills by default, or they may switch their customers to \u201cpaperless\u201d billing.<\/p>\n<p>You can also request a paper bill from your service provider if you can access an online bill but you wish to also have a paper bill, however, you may be charged a fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What is paperless billing?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your electronic or \u201cpaperless\u201d bill from your service provider may be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sent to you by email; or<\/li>\n<li>Made available through your online account; or<\/li>\n<li>Made available through a mobile app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your service provider must let you know when your electronic bill is available online.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Prepaid Services<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have a pre-paid service, you are entitled to request your transaction details from your service provider. Your service provider must give you these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>free of charge;<\/li>\n<li>in a format that you can access; and<\/li>\n<li>within a reasonable period of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have a <a href=\"\/advice-information\/billing-and-disputed-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">page on our website with advice and information on billing<\/a>, which includes information on methods of billing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many consumers may find online bills and usage tools convenient, some may have difficulties accessing and using their bill electronically for a variety of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/can-i-still-get-a-paper-bill\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":123658,"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-123659","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\/123659","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}