€ircon scum - line rental increase!

Richard Dower

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8451

:mad: the cheek...with the crappy service they offer to customers. Eircom won't be satisfied until we have the highest line rental price in the world!

:mad: :mad:

mike65

We do I think, well the EU anyway.

Mike.

zAbbo

yeah, highest price in Europe - www.nolinerental.ie

Conar

Man I hate Eircom sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much! :mad:

smellslikeshoes

Completely pricing themselves out of the market. Increasing the line rental further just isn't sustainable in my opinion.In the short term it might seem like good business sense but in the long run its very bad. More and more people are getting rid of the landline in favour of mobiles/voip and broadband over a different platform.

dub45

smellslikeshoes wrote:

Completely pricing themselves out of the market. Increasing the line rental further just isn't sustainable in my opinion.In the short term it might seem like good business sense but in the long run its very bad. More and more people are getting rid of the landline in favour of mobiles/voip and broadband over a different platform.

I agree with you totally - the line rental is an easy cash cow but it is so obviously pushing people towards getting rid of their land lines that the law of diminishing returns must have already kicked in. No wonder they were so anxious to get Meteor.

It makes it all that more infuriating that NTL/UPC have proved to be such a disaster so far in terms of providing any real competition. Eircom mustnt be able to believe their luck:rolleyes:

Gran Hermano

I believe Meteor was the only decent growth area in Eircons latest financial
reports. I find it amusing that Eircon have to piggyback on the Vodafone
network to provide the mobile infrastructure.

Mike...

Eircom are scum.....
I will not buy a Ireland shirt because I don't want their scum name on my shirt

Dankoozy

Gran Hermano wrote:

I believe Meteor was the only decent growth area in Eircons latest financial
reports. I find it amusing that Eircon have to piggyback on the Vodafone
network to provide the mobile infrastructure.

vodafone are much, much worse. god I hate those *&^%bags. Eircell was a good company back in the day but when vodafone took over they completely ruined it and the prices havn't gone down since they did.

kaizersoze

This is what Rex Comb said in a statement the other day.

Mr Comb also told RTE radio Eircom had not applied to the regulator for an increase in its line rental prices, though the company's costs were going up. But he said an increase could not be ruled out in future years.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0529/eircom.html

what_car

Richard Dower wrote:

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8451

:mad: the cheek...with the crappy service they offer to customers. Eircom won't be satisfied until we have the highest line rental price in the world!

:mad: :mad:

#
i am paying eircom 49 yoyos a month for unlimited local calls and 1mb broadband... i dont really use the landline for calls..

all i need is internet access.. can anyone recommend any other reliable
cheap alternative to paying eircom €49 a month?

all i need is internet access that works without issues!

and i want to get rid of my land line!


any recommendations?

barrett1965

The days of renting a line are over anyway; the future is wireless. 25% of new houses built today don't even have a phoneline. Let them off.

Conar

what_car wrote:

#
i am paying eircom 49 yoyos a month for unlimited local calls and 1mb broadband... i dont really use the landline for calls..

all i need is internet access.. can anyone recommend any other reliable
cheap alternative to paying eircom €49 a month?

all i need is internet access that works without issues!

and i want to get rid of my land line!


any recommendations?

Use this to see what's available in your are:
http://broadband.gov.ie/

I'm paying 50 a month for line rental and 3mb DSL from BT.
If you don't make many calls and you want higher speed internet then maybe look at this.
I think BT seem to have the most generous DSL packages but I haven't checked lately so I may be wrong.

rymus

it's threads like this that make me thank god that the house I've just bought is in range of a wireless service...

Cabaal

barrett1965 wrote:

The days of renting a line are over anyway; the future is wireless. 25% of new houses built today don't even have a phoneline. Let them off.

I'm interested to know when your getting such a stat?

Conar

Cabaal wrote:

I'm interested to know when your getting such a stat?

84.9% of people are well aware of that stat

muffinhead

Conar wrote:

84.9% of people are well aware of that stat

Will this increase have any affect on BT's prices, in particular the phone & broadband packages?

barrett1965

How do you mean? It was said during a report on RTE 1 last night on six-one news by a Vodafone CEO. Is that what you are trying to find out.

paulm17781

Cabaal wrote:

I'm interested to know when your getting such a stat?

Anyone can make up statistics, 14% of people know that.

watty

Before Privatisation: 82% of housholds had a phone line. Recently 69% of households have a phone line, Comreg figures?

I blame high line rental and install charges. Install charge for a Mobile can be -80 Euro!

AlmightyCushion

It wouldn't be too bad if this money was ploughed into upgrading the network to give the country much better broadband but you know it's not gonna be.

Gran Hermano

Some good news: "Eircom to cut 900 jobs by 2010"

About time they cut out some of the fat off that organisation.

AlmightyCushion

Gran Hermano wrote:

Some good news: "Eircom to cut 900 jobs by 2010"

About time they cut out some of the fat off that organisation.

Yet they're still looking for a line rental rise.

JNive

i heard about that job cut about 2 hours ago, apparently its just one of those things related to attriction, i mean, 2010 , thats almost a 3 year window, eircom never were people to do anything quickly lol

Cuddlesworth

Yeah its hilarously easy to walk around and just fire 900 people out fo the blue in 1 day. Great for the morale of the company as a whole. And great for the people just doing their jobs and paying the price for it.

LoLth

Eircom are gits.

now that thats out of the way.... the 900 jobs by 2010 are planned to be as a result of natural employee flow. Retirements, voluntary reduncy etc. they just wont replace the people that leave (except for key and critical positions of course).

Still, I wonder what happens if 900 people dont leave (thats 300 a year after all) ....

having said that... eircom are gits

Gran Hermano

krazy_8s wrote:

And great for the people just doing their jobs and paying the price for it.

The irony of it all............. I'm sure they made a pretty penny from the
floatation. Everyone knows the only winners of that fiasco were the employees
and the unions whilst 1 in 3 Irish adults lost cash.

Peanut

barrett1965 wrote:

The days of renting a line are over anyway; the future is wireless. 25% of new houses built today don't even have a phoneline. Let them off.

You won't get rid of wired that easily.. wireless just doesn't have enough capacity. And one way or the other, consumer bandwidth demands always go up.

Dankoozy

the future is FTTH, hopefully not from eircon

wireless has its usefulness but isn't that great at the end of the day.

Cabaal

Gran Hermano wrote:

The irony of it all............. I'm sure they made a pretty penny from the
floatation. Everyone knows the only winners of that fiasco were the employees
and the unions whilst 1 in 3 Irish adults lost cash.

The reason why some many adults lost cash is cause they got into something they didn't have a bloody clue about, the smart people sold their stock off early and made their money and the stupid people didn't know that stock can go up AND down in value

Gran Hermano

Personally I didn't loose a cent as I knew better than to invest.
Doesn't mean the government didnt oversell it to the average Irish
person and give those uneducated at investing the impression it
was 'risk free'. I stand by what I said earlier in that the only winners
were Eircom staff and unions.

mwrf

A green party flyer i got in the door before the election said that the greens would investigate if the state can buy back the network from eircom. If buying out the m50 bridge was talked about why not our phone network?

watty

I think the cost would be about €1,500 per person (not per household). At that price I think let them keep it and do better Government policy.

mike65

Exactly, the Greens might like spending all our money but I don't!

Mike.

Offalycool

The nail is most defiantly being hammered into Eircom’s coffin. http://www.digiweb.ie/media_article.asp?id=119

watty

Needs a subscription to read:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2007/0601/1180483614792.html

Tracking down presidential candidates, mob killers and Hollywood stars is a walk in the park compared with getting broadband in the Irish countryside, writes Robbyn Swan
(c) Irish Times

It seems eircom are holding the nails and operating the hammer.

damien

stebishop wrote:

If buying out the m50 bridge was talked about why not our phone network?

Change the planning laws instead.

mike65

The nail is most defiantly being hammered into Eircom’s coffin. http://www.digiweb.ie/media_article.asp?id=119

How does high-speed bb on my phone (if I had a modern phone) help people who want bb on thier PCs?

Mike.

damien

mike65 wrote:

How does high-speed bb on my phone (if I had a modern phone) help people who want bb on thier PCs?

The service only currently works near the Digiweb data centre. Not exactly national yet.

rogue-entity

Offalycool wrote:

The nail is most defiantly being hammered into Eircom’s coffin. http://www.digiweb.ie/media_article.asp?id=119

The interesting question is this, are Digiweb going to be the sole operator with a national 4G licence, or will other licences be made available. If history has thought us anything, it is not to give a private company sole control over national infrastructure like this. Comreg would do well to consider tendering out further 4G licences.

blahmange

Always the bloody same