Eircom Advice on VOIP?

Keith186

Hi,

Do any of you know about VOIP on Eircom as part of they're package?

I was on holidays and someone in my house signed up to an Eircom package because it was cheaper, if I was here I wouldn't have let the sales guy in at all (they screwed me on broadband for years!).

Anyway I'm on BT, we have a package for calling ROI and UK landlines for free up to an hour.
The Eircom package is only for ROI but the sales guy said that he would include an adapter in the package to use VOIP on the household phone so we could still call UK landlines for free via Skype.

This is news to me and secondhand info so forgive me if it sounds ridiculous.

I believe it's possible to use the house phone as a skype headset as such but is it possible for it to be free to call landlines (as opposed to calling only other Skype users).
I find this hard to believe unless Eircom have some sort of wholesale package agreement with Skype which I've never heard of.
Could someone enlighten me please as I want to cancel the contract in the cooling off period if it's not the case (and also the agreement with RIAA is of concern but it's still early days there to pass proper judgement I think).

Thanks

Othello

Hi
eircom have 2 VoIP packages (one business & one consumer)

see http://www.eircom.net/broadbandtalk

The consumer one costs

• €5/month for unlimited local & national calls and 600 anytime minutes to UK fixed lines
• €10/month for unlimited local & national calls and 600 anytime minutes to International fixed lines

You plug you fixed handset into an adapter (ATA) that itself plugs into your broadband router.

There is no connection to Skype

Keith186

Cheers Othello.

Went with Eircom now as my phone with BT has been out of action a few times in the last 2 months.