{"id":126900,"date":"2023-10-27T23:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=126900"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:18:10","slug":"what-to-consider-when-entering-into-a-contract-for-phone-or-internet-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/what-to-consider-when-entering-into-a-contract-for-phone-or-internet-services\/","title":{"rendered":"What to consider when entering into a contract for phone or internet services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/eli\/2022\/act\/37\/enacted\/en\/print#sec78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consumer Rights Act 2022<\/a> introduces new rights when you buy in a shop, online or with a door-to-door seller. Some of the rights may only apply if you bought something on or after 29 November 2022, when the Consumer Rights Act became law.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/eli\/2022\/si\/444\/made\/en\/print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022<\/a> also provide additional consumer and other end-user protections. These Regulations came into operation on 9 June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>We have a section on our website with advice and information on entering into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/comhairle-eolas\/conarthai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract<\/a> for phone or broadband services. We outline some of the most important things to consider at the different stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before entering a contract<\/li>\n<li>While you\u2019re in a contract<\/li>\n<li>When your contract comes to an end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have more information you may also find helpful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/compare-irish\/#\/services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compare<\/a> tool to help compare the cost of phone, broadband and TV price plans.<\/li>\n<li>See also our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/comhairle-eolas\/athru-solathroiri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">switching page<\/a> for information about moving your service to a new service provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Rights Act 2022 introduces new rights when you buy in a shop, online or with a door-to-door seller. Some of the rights may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/what-to-consider-when-entering-into-a-contract-for-phone-or-internet-services\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":126749,"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":[487],"tags":[656,657,658],"class_list":["post-126900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuacht-tomhaltora","tag-consumer-ga","tag-ecs-ga","tag-news-ga"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126900","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137702,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126900\/revisions\/137702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}