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€ircom's Line Rental Monopoly

  • 08-08-2003 6:48pm
    #1
    genie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭


    Will €ircom ever lose their line rental monopoly? I think I read somewhere that if you have your calls with another provider eg, Esat BT, you can also pay the line rental with them and therefore only have the one bill for calls and rental. Or did I dream it all?! :confused:


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  • #2
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    probably no to eircom ever losing the monopoly.

    If you are using a different operator, you can pay your line rental to the operator and not to The Almighty Eircom. It'll knock one of your bills on the head anyway. Not sure how it works exactly but I'm sure someone will give you a hugely complicated explanation for it.

    It's not in operation yet (as far as I know)


  • #3
    Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Well the line rental is generally meant to go towards the cost of maintaining and upgrading the physical network, so there will always be a line rental from whoever owns the physical network. Eircom (for the forseable future) in Irelands case.

    Soon (it should have been done by June, iirc) you will be able to pay the line rental together with your phone bill to any other operator, so you wont recieve any bills from eircom at all.

    If your only intrested in this because youd like to deny money to eircom, its not going to do a lot of good because the other operators have to hand over the vast majority of the line rental you pay back to eircom.

    <edit: oops, typos>


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