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Independantly irresponsible

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  • 22-01-2012 7:45pm
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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭


    Sunday January 22 2012

    Why on earth would you have a landline anymore?

    The rapidly shrinking phone book should give you a bit of a clue. Using your mobile and a dongle is way cheaper than having a landline and home broadband. We've compared a light user with 60 minutes of calls -- half to other mobiles -- and bog standard 1mb broadband. It's the cheapest landline bundle versus the top mobile and dongle deal based on www.callcosts.ie numbercrunching. Eircom's best offer costs more than double the price but has faster broadband.

    Best: Tesco Mobile anyone anytime plus Meteor broadband to go, €22.62 per month combined.

    Avoid: Digiweb Chatterbox, €39.99 per month.

    Saving: €208.44 per year.

    contact www.tesco.ie and www.meteor.ie or local stores.

    Meteor is Eircom and Meteor don't have ANY broadband product.
    http://www.techtir.ie/comms/mobile-vs-fixed

    It's also got very patchy HSPA coverage and you may not even connect. A typical cap on Digiweb is 30Gbyte or 60Gbyte depending on package. Any amount of video, Skype or download will likely cost closer to €100 on that Meteor package, assuming it works at all for Skype, Steam, Games, Video or even connects.

    It's totally irresponsible to compare ANY mobile based Data product with real Fixed Broadband. It's like claiming a Honda 50 moped is cheaper than a Toyota Corolla car.

    Also there are some products and services that need a fixed landline number. This should have been mentioned.

    Absolutely useless and misleading consumer advice.


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    #2
    Galen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Galen


    Hi Watty, bloody hell what kind of moron wrote that article? Well it just another reason I don't buy that paper. If ignorance is bliss that writer must spend all their time on cloud 9.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The Internet version is top Irish News Website. So it's bad that such a headline is on their web front page.
    Personal Finance
    Property windfall pensioners targeted by Revenue

    PENSIONERS who come into property windfalls but fail to notify authorities are being targeted as part of a new benefits crackdown.
    • Home phone/broadband combo vs mobile only
    • Permanent TSB to cut home loan rate for new buyers
    • One-third of all house purchases 'are carried out in cash'
    • Consumers turn backs on cash as payments go 'plastic'
    • Review of negative-equity mortgages postponed


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