PrePay /Pay as you go home phone

kennyp

Hi Everyone,

Do you think a prepay home phone (landline) service would work in Ireland? Working the same was as the current mobile services whereby you could buy credit in a shop or online to top up?

drunkmonkey

This is not a consumer issues, your in the wrong form, your should be here http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=106 you wondering about start up ideas and as a start up idea it's not great, more people are moving to their mobiles every day. The only reason a lot of people still use landlines are because they are forced to have one by the telco's such as eircom. I don't think your idea would work and blueface have already pre pay landline numbers.

kennyp

No

Thanks DM,

I have had a number of people ask me why Telecos dont do it - I agree that many people only have phone lines for Broadband and not for calls. People are moving towards mobiles but if they could utilise their existing landline to make cheaper calls without having varing bills do you think it would work? I understand that blueface do something like that but a little different.

Thanks

K

Owen

Eircom did offer little white payphones for homes in the past. I remember all the scrooges getting them until it became known that if you pushed a watch strap down hard to the bottom left of the coin slot, punched in **** #### 0000 free dial came up on screen, and you could ring internationally if you wanted, but the phone owner still had it on their bill.

dudara

drunkmonkey - If you believe that a thread is in the wrong forum, please report it to the moderators via the Report Post functionality. By telling the poster to post in B rather than A, we often end up with duplicate threads around the place.

dudara