ComReg
ComReg. The Irish communications regulator
Where is the promised legislation aimed at preventing mobile phone service price hikes?
Hundreds of thousands of Irish users will see their monthly bills jump by more than 5% as a result of a policy taken by providers
Technology watchdogs warn Government they are under-resourced in face of growing workload
Budget strain ‘undermines State’s crucial role’ enforcing EU tech and data regulations
Bonkers.ie chief: ‘We offer the best way to turn your bills into savings’
Bonkers.ie has moved from being a comparison website to selling products directly to customers, says founder David Kerr
Sky must provide end of contract and alternative tariff information to customers, court rules
High Court rules ComReg entitled to orders requiring company to end practice of automatically renewing agreements
He said he was a Bank of Ireland employee: A reader loses thousands of euro in an afternoon
Irish consumers lose tens of millions of euro to criminals operating scams of this nature, watchdog says
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Have your say: Have you received a scam call from a UK +44 number?
Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg
Scam calls from UK +44 numbers in Ireland: Who is it and what should I do?
Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg
Sky automatically renewing subscriber contracts faces challenge in High Court
Regulator says broadcaster’s practice breaches EU rules but Sky says its contracts are ‘subscription contracts of indeterminate duration’
ComReg dropped plan to block scam mesages amid false positives
Regulator stuck to system of marking texts as ‘likely scams’
The trouble started for our reader after switching from Eir to Vodafone
Pricewatch: Anne’s request for cancellation ‘was not enough to warrant’ it, says telecoms company
Dial-up is dead. A few other technologies are set to follow
AOL announced it was shutting down its dial-up service, but who still plugs in to a phone jack to go online?
‘Stop using it immediately’: Regulator warns about fire risk in certain tumble dryers
Manufacturer has organised free-of-charge at-home services to rectify the issue
Domino’s text messages labelled ‘likely spam’ as new rules come into effect
Companies are now required to register details of their SMS messaging on ComReg database
Over 8,000 business register with ComReg ahead of anti-scam system roll-out
System aimed at making it harder for criminals to send convincing spam messages to consumers
Is the text scammer era at an end? Comreg implements SMS registry for firms
Registry will mean only legitimate businesses should be able to access consumer phones but scammers will inevitably find new approaches
Sky Television ‘seems happy to take advantage’ of my trusting, elderly aunt
Pricewatch receives two similar stories connected to Sky Television involving older people
ComReg plans overhaul of SMS text message system to help block scammers
Public and businesses lose more than €100m year to criminals who send bogus messages
Plan under way to protect telecoms network from extreme weather
Service providers may have to submit annual reports on implementation of measures
Ticketmaster, Eir and Ryanair top list of firms that triggered the most consumer complaints to watchdog
Almost 45,000 people contacted Competition and Consumer Protection Commission overall last year about goods and services
Virgin Media must amend training manuals on financial incentives to agents, High Court orders
Company breached EU Universal Service Regulation obligations but succeeds in defending right to impose 30-day notice of termination
Helen Dixon to leave ComReg post after one year
Former data protection commissioner keen to ‘try something new’ after 18 years in regulatory roles
Why are we left on our own when it comes to fraud?
Despite a new measure by ComReg, Irish consumers are set to remain vulnerable to scammers and won’t have the same protections and supports that exist elsewhere
Virgin Media incentivises agents to stop customers switching, court finds
ComReg sought declaration Virgin failed to comply with Universal Service Regulations
Scam texts to be blocked as watchdog unveils text-messaging register
Scam text messages costing consumers over €100m a year, says ComReg
Thousands of Three Ireland customers due refund of €269 on average after ComReg investigation
About 14,000 customers affected by company’s failure to send appropriate notifications
Garda ‘stretched’ as online fraud reaches ‘industrial’ levels, Drew Harris warns
Heightened concern over scams in run-up to Christmas as Garda Commissioner outlines ‘increasingly complex and difficult’ threats to State
Eir fined €2.8m for failing to allow other companies access to network information
Telco agrees to fine following five-year investigation by regulator Comreg
Getting new regulator up and running was like building an aircraft while flying, says executive chair
Government has given approval for staffing levels at media and online safety regulator Coimisiún na Meán to increase to 200
ComReg to be charged with overseeing security of data centres in expansion of its regulatory role
Expanded role to ensure data centres meet certain standards to be met on foot of EU directives
Learn to complain effectively, it will save you time, stress and money - and try these trigger words
The phrase ‘I want a supervisor’ can be less effective than ‘I want to log a formal complaint’
Judge labels Eir a ‘disgrace’ after court heard customer service manuals warned staff not to obey law
In wake of court case, telecom provider ‘categorically rejects’ accusations of instructing customer care team ‘to not comply with regulatory obligations’
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