{"id":539182,"date":"2026-07-08T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:20:06","slug":"virgin-media-fined-28m-for-preventing-customers-from-cancelling-contracts-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539182\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media fined \u00a328m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBrb25HWHFJc3lJZXF4bWk5WmhOMEh5RkhrUXpJZTRHRmFFeHdPZFBVblJqWk1TWVNLeFlHYlpBczhaZWJMR0ROQUJ3di1telo0N3psMDNtcEdOQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virgin Media fined \u00a328m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxQNDBNR3M4ZUFuZHN4ZTdHanVlaXgwcXBlN2dBdGJxMmxFZGg3VzZBalRXQWxnTXNSTUtsdnJ1bE1jWDB3cjZvRHlFMGpxUkpnX09kekVWbnl1SmpYN0tKRmxkS0ZMdmRHcDFuVlQ0UnpqTUFtOTBBYldWRHJNYnY2NjNLZVAwX1k?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virgin Media fined record \u00a328m for stopping switching<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxQNEhrN0Q1Qnk2c19NalBCeGxDZlctdnBPdWxuMlpKcEJkX1FDeDFvVjl4Q2R6NVNpb0tNeXI3Q0hHX29FNkxfa1JCQjVyU1kyWXg5SUdlU21xT0UtYlVfR0J0cVdtXzlQUHlrSGxzR0lnUDF5QkZRcmpVeWd4RWgyOXFuWnZDN204TUZRTlE0Q2NzTmlkemJIMjBGTmFUUnpvVDNmVnJGZUpqdmh6UXpCcEZR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virgin Media fined record \u00a328m for stopping customers cancelling contracts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPdmRFOUpjUEZtOF94Q2NIUWxNSnJfYlZVcXo0aWhSSnJoN0FJZ3FSc21OUVNYTWNDNV9WclgzaVBXd2VDN2FYOG1rbDZaVjlaS2RZaGw4VUYycExUOW5rc0IydE5kempsb09fdnNVajFhMVNvdDZlVTFDZm9MbG44MXFTOEctY1dxaEtVaXRlejNIY2NLUUlBRlpaUVdSTDQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virgin Media fined \u00a328m for blocking customers from cancelling broadband contracts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Media fined \u00a328m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCVirgin Media fined record \u00a328m for stopping switching&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieVirgin Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-539182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}