UPC 100meg dropping to €50pm???

donutheadhomer

UPC 100meg dropping to €50pm??? Is this true? read someone here talking said they got letter from upc to say it. why I not get this letter?

donutheadhomer

EurasianBadger wrote: »

UPC 100meg dropping to €50pm??? Is this true? read someone here talking said they got letter from upc to say it. why I not get this letter?

UPC mailed me saying

the price of 100 Mb is dropping from €65 per month to €55 per month next month.



Regards



The UPC Social Media Team

ronkmonster

I got this letter too.

donutheadhomer

ronkmonster wrote: »

I got this letter too.

At the moment it is €62 for 100meg line, €57 if you take the phone service also. Does the letter say if it will be €55 for phone and 100meg line or €55 just for the 100meg line on its own.

ronkmonster

EurasianBadger wrote: »

At the moment it is €62 for 100meg line, €57 if you take the phone service also. Does the letter say if it will be €55 for phone and 100meg line or €55 just for the 100meg line on its own.

I'm only on the 100mb with no phone so they just said 100mb was going down to 55 euro

donutheadhomer

ronkmonster wrote: »

I'm only on the 100mb with no phone so they just said 100mb was going down to 55 euro

I mailed back the UPC Social Media Guys there to clarify this.

donutheadhomer

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I mailed back the UPC Social Media Guys there to clarify this.

UPC just came back to me there


"The Fibre Power Bundle (100 Mb) is currently €57 per month. This will be reduced to €55 per month on September 5th ( this includes the Freetime World Phone package). This reduction will automatically be applied to your account."

Thor

EurasianBadger wrote: »

UPC just came back to me there


"The Fibre Power Bundle (100 Mb) is currently €57 per month. This will be reduced to €55 per month on September 5th ( this includes the Freetime World Phone package). This reduction will automatically be applied to your account."

That's odd, Because on my letter it says.

Broadband & Phone pack _______________________Monthly rate from 5 September

Fibre Power 100_____________________________________€50.00
Fibre Power 100 with Anytime World_____________________€55:00

I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure the 100MB with free time world is package that is priced at €50 and the anytime world is €55!!

That's considering the title of the change is broadband and phone and not just broadband on it's own!

donutheadhomer

Thor wrote: »

That's odd, Because on my letter it says.

Broadband & Phone pack _______________________Monthly rate from 5 September

Fibre Power 100_____________________________________€50.00
Fibre Power 100 with Anytime World_____________________€55:00

I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure the 100MB with free time world is package that is priced at €50 and the anytime world is €55!!

That's considering the title of the change is broadband and phone and not just broadband on it's own!

Further Update from UPC - they must be reading this...........


"Hi again,



I misinformed you on my previous email re the price change on your account.



The charge for the Fibre Power Bundle (100 Mb) will be €50 per month, not €55 as previously stated.



Sincere apologies for the earlier error



Regards,



The UPC Social Media Team

Thor

Ha, I love it when they read boards.ie!!

UPC!!

When is the 120MB line going to be launched!!

You know everyone is waiting for it to happen here in Ireland!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

ArthurG

Thor wrote: »

Ha, I love it when they read boards.ie!!

UPC!!

When is the 120MB line going to be launched!!

You know everyone is waiting for it to happen here in Ireland!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Is 100 to 120 that big a deal?. I'd be more interested in knowing what % of UPC's customers are using the 100meg service, I suspect its pretty small. Boards users would not be representative I suspect.....

Thor

ArthurG wrote: »

Is 100 to 120 that big a deal?. I'd be more interested in knowing what % of UPC's customers are using the 100meg service, I suspect its pretty small. Boards users would not be representative I suspect.....

I'm just taken the pi$$!!

But to add to that!!

YES an extra 20MB is everything!!!

donutheadhomer

ArthurG wrote: »

Is 100 to 120 that big a deal?. I'd be more interested in knowing what % of UPC's customers are using the 100meg service, I suspect its pretty small. Boards users would not be representative I suspect.....

I don't need it but being kind of altruistic in getting it. If nobody buys these products then ISP will not provide them

CorkMan

UPC bring in 1GB broadband! Them Singaporians have it and there are not even in Western Europe!

yomamasflavour

Why though?
It's not like there's any competition.

100Mb for a tenner less than Eircoms 7Mb, makes me sick that I'm stuck with Eircom.
Pity UPC aren't focusing on rollout to new areas.

bonoman66

Thor wrote: »

I'm just taken the pi$$!!

But to add to that!!

YES an extra 20MB is everything!!!

True it would be nice..... but a 1TB CAP, particularly for the 100Meg product would be more useful.. (eg can exceed 500GB in less than 12 hours if you really wanted to)..although then it would be back to a problem with enough personal storage space before long

Note - I'm not implying there is enough useful or interesting content to everyone to be warranting 1TB traffic on a regular basis each month - just that if you hadn't been online for a while & were 'catching up' with things , one could easily exceed 500GB CAP in less than 1 day withtheir 100Meg product..

jimmycrackcorm

Does that mean that for existing 50mb customers it is worthwhile changing to 100mb?

shinzon

If theyd only role it out in Waterford id be happy to upgrade at that price



Shin

Thor

shinzon wrote: »

If theyd only role it out in Waterford id be happy to upgrade at that price



Shin

If only you live in dungarvan then you could get cablesurf!!

They have 120MB lines for ages now, Well longer than UPC.

I do hope that UPC increase the cap of the 100MB line, The point being is that they consider it the best of the best yet it has the same cap as the 50MB line. Which to me seems pointless.

The speed is useless if there is a cap.

If you can reach your limit in 1 day by the threshold of the speed of your line, then the cap to me is two low.

But this thread has little to do with the cap size of the 100MB line.

Still nice to see a price decrease, Wonder if it had anything to do with €ircons announcement of FIBRE POWER BROADBAND!! there next next gen of super fast broadband(That still isn't as fast as UPC)

bricks

I have 30Mbits@49Euros a month at the moment. Without phone.
If its only an extra yoyo for 100Mbits I might go for it.

SachaJ

bricks wrote: »

I have 30Mbits@49Euros a month at the moment. Without phone.
If its only an extra yoyo for 100Mbits I might go for it.

Considering they are offering 50Mb for €45 you're being robbed....

SachaJ

So if the 100Mb is coming down to €50 are they going to introduce a new pricing structure?

20Mb - €25
40Mb - €30
70Mb - €40
100Mb - €50

Two things I'd love to know.....

1. Since the 20Mb package now has a limit of 500Gb, will the 100Mb package increase to 1Tb?
2. Will the 100Mb upload speed increase from 7Mb to 10Mb? Currently only 2Mb faster then the 50Mb package

donutheadhomer

SachaJ wrote: »

So if the 100Mb is coming down to €50 are they going to introduce a new pricing structure?

20Mb - €25
40Mb - €30
70Mb - €40
100Mb - €50

Two things I'd love to know.....

1. Since the 20Mb package now has a limit of 500Gb, will the 100Mb package increase to 1Tb?
2. Will the 100Mb upload speed increase from 7Mb to 10Mb? Currently only 2Mb faster then the 50Mb package

is there not an additional charge for broadband only also??? Something like 7.50euro for not having phone or tv services with them.

donutheadhomer

SachaJ wrote: »

So if the 100Mb is coming down to €50 are they going to introduce a new pricing structure?

20Mb - €25
40Mb - €30
70Mb - €40
100Mb - €50

Two things I'd love to know.....

1. Since the 20Mb package now has a limit of 500Gb, will the 100Mb package increase to 1Tb?
2. Will the 100Mb upload speed increase from 7Mb to 10Mb? Currently only 2Mb faster then the 50Mb package

ask ups social@upc.ie

vibe666

CorkMan wrote: »

UPC bring in 1GB broadband! Them Singaporians have it and there are not even in Western Europe!

that's fibre to the home though, we don't have anything like the infrastructure in ireland to support that, even if they were able to get fibre to your home.

the current fastest EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modem standard *only* allows for up to 400Mbit/s, which is still pretty nippy.

bricks

vibe666 wrote: »

that's fibre to the home though, we don't have anything like the infrastructure in ireland to support that, even if they were able to get fibre to your home.

the current fastest EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modem standard *only* allows for up to 400Mbit/s, which is still pretty nippy.

Thats with 8 channels bonded, docsis 3 doesn't specify a limit on the number of channels that can be bonded so I guess they could theoretically bond more of them and get up to 1GB. Can't see them bothering tho. 400Mbits is enough to keep Eircom away for a long time.

vibe666

bricks wrote: »

Thats with 8 channels bonded, docsis 3 doesn't specify a limit on the number of channels that can be bonded so I guess they could theoretically bond more of them and get up to 1GB. Can't see them bothering tho. 400Mbits is enough to keep Eircom away for a long time.

hmm, interesting. never actually bothered to read past the charts on the wiki page, good to know.

squonk

Can you get 100Mb BB and phone and TV in a bundle from UPC? It doesn't look like it on their site. It'd be nice to have it as an add on option in one of the bundle packages.

vibe666

squonk wrote: »

Can you get 100Mb BB and phone and TV in a bundle from UPC? It doesn't look like it on their site. It'd be nice to have it as an add on option in one of the bundle packages.

err, yes it does.

go to www.upc.ie and click on the 'Bundles' tab at the top of the page to get here -> http://www.upc.ie/deals/tvbroadbandphone/

EDIT, lol, no it doesn't. :pac:

prolly could have gotten away with a ninja edit there, but i'm feeling honest.

pretty sure you can get it if you call them up.

Yakuza

I have 100+Freetime world for €57/month (soon to be €50:D) and two installations of Digi max for €40/month (€35+5 for the second connection), there's no bundle for the 100+phone+TV (too small a percentage of users I'd say(for now)).

When I moved to UPC for BB/phone in March, I went straight for the (then) max speed (30Mb) and there was no bundle then, either. I guess they target the bundles at an average/light user's requirements and leave the fastest packages to the geeks (and I count myself proudly among that cohort!)

donutheadhomer

can someone paste a copy of the upc letter up here please as I've yet to receive it and getting mixed messages from UPC about this.

TheZohanS

If you upgrade your package are you tied to another 12 month contract?

pm.

Thor wrote: »

YES an extra 20MB is everything!!!

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

vibe666

pm. wrote: »

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

comfortably less than 2 minutes (closer to 1 minute) if you were getting the full 100mbps and could find somewhere to download it that quickly from.

to be fair though, you're only talking 10-15 minutes for that kind of download on 10mbps.

vibe666

i was up early so i did a little test whilst i knew nobody else would be online and here's what the results were according to the stats on my router, downloading a random 638mb linux ISO from ftp.heanet.ie



it's about a minute anyway as you can see.

here's quick speedtest from the time i did the doswnload.



not too shabby.

Richard Dower

vibe666 wrote: »

i was up early so i did a little test whilst i knew nobody else would be online and here's what the results were according to the stats on my router, downloading a random 638mb linux ISO from ftp.heanet.ie



it's about a minute anyway as you can see.

here's quick speedtest from the time i did the doswnload.



not too shabby.

Jammy git :mad:

Anan1

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Does that mean that for existing 50mb customers it is worthwhile changing to 100mb?

I asked UPC this question today, and was told that I could upgrade my 50Mb package to 100Mb for €5/month from the 5th September.

aN.Droid

pm. wrote: »

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

about 50 seconds if you get max speed. which I do from astraweb.

Nollog

TheZohan wrote: »

If you upgrade your package are you tied to another 12 month contract?

Yes you are.

vibe666

Richard Dower wrote: »

Jammy git :mad:

to be fair, it's not always rock solid at that speed, sometimes if it's busy pn a weekday evening it might drop to 30mbps, but i just tried it there at 1:45pm on a saturday afternoon and got this, so it's hard to complain for the money.

SachaJ

Checked the site this morning and either the site is wrong or they've given us all the incorrect price.

According to the site, the broadband is €55 a month or €50 if you take the phone

donutheadhomer

SachaJ wrote: »

Checked the site this morning and either the site is wrong or they've given us all the incorrect price.

According to the site, the broadband is €55 a month or €50 if you take the phone

no they told me 55 standalone 100mb or 50 with phone

SachaJ

EurasianBadger wrote: »

no they told me 55 standalone 100mb or 50 with phone

Fair enough. I read elsewhere on the forums it would be €55 including the phone or €50 for the broadband alone.

vibe666

SachaJ wrote: »

Fair enough. I read elsewhere on the forums it would be €55 including the phone or €50 for the broadband alone.

no, they WANT you to take the phone (i'm guessing as an additional revenue stream, if you have it you'll use it kinda thing) so since they launched the 100mbps they made it cheaper to get the phone and broadband together than it was for the broadband on its own.

Melendez

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vibe666

Melendez wrote: »

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they sent out the letter to existing customers. it would have to be particularly cruel for them (even by normal UPC standards) to rub it in our faces if it was another new user special offer.

donutheadhomer

vibe666 wrote: »

they sent out the letter to existing customers. it would have to be particularly cruel for them (even by normal UPC standards) to rub it in our faces if it was another new user special offer.

From: UPC Social [mailto:sociale@upc.ie] On Behalf Of >UPC Social
Sent: 30 August 2011 16:17
To: XXXXX
Subject: RE: a/c XXXXXXX


Hi XXXXXXX



Firstly, apologies for the delay in getting back to you with confirmation on your query.



I can confirm that the Fibre Power 100 pack (i.e. 100 Mb Broadband, Phone and Freetime world) will definitely be €50 per month.



Apologies if Billing informed you otherwise last week.



Regards,



The UPC Social Media Team

SachaJ

I presume you can get it and not actually use the phone? Or will there be some minimum use policy?

Anan1

SachaJ wrote: »

I presume you can get it and not actually use the phone? Or will there be some minimum use policy?

I have the phone with anytime calls, and i'm only charged for calls outside of what's included in the bundle. If you didn't use it at all there'd be no charges for calls.

jimmycrackcorm

Did anyone get upgraded for an extra fiver today?

Anan1

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Did anyone get upgraded for an extra fiver today?

I made the call this morning and they said they'd do it, but it hasn't kicked in yet.