{"id":4434,"date":"2018-11-16T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ee-and-virgin-media-fined-13-3m-for-overcharging-customers\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:13","slug":"ee-and-virgin-media-fined-13-3m-for-overcharging-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ee-and-virgin-media-fined-13-3m-for-overcharging-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"EE and Virgin Media fined \u00a313.3m for overcharging customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Woman on smartphone and interactive touchscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/122C9\/production\/_104014447_gettyimages-925239558.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">EE and Virgin Media have been fined \u00a313.3m by the telecoms regulator for overcharging customers who wanted to leave their contracts early.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom said customers of both companies were left &#8220;out of pocket&#8221; by the early-exit charges.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator that around 400,000 EE customers who ended their contracts early were over-billed, and customers ended up over-paying up to \u00a34.3m.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 82,000 Virgin Media customers were overcharged by just under \u00a32.8m.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46233110\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images EE and Virgin Media have been fined \u00a313.3m by the telecoms regulator for overcharging customers who wanted to leave their contracts early. Ofcom said customers of both companies were left &#8220;out of pocket&#8221; by the early-exit charges. The regulator that around 400,000 EE customers who ended their contracts early were over-billed, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}