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Household package

  • 02-01-2013 5:56pm
    #1
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, I'm a full time carer for my partner, we got a letter from eircom today stating from the 1st of feb my telephone allowance will go from €22:58 to €9:50 a month, as we've to budget everything down to the last cent every month this is gonna knock the home phone on the head which my partner needs as mobile buttons to small, we've the electricity to be hit yet and the household charge to come( or mortgage is €600 a month which is killing us but don't want to lose our credit rating), have gone to cwo and she said she can't help, is there anybody who could give us some good advise, we're sitting here looking at the four walls totally depressed ....


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  • #2
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Similar situation but I ve managed to bundle a landline and my internet together and I wont lose out with the decrease . Would that be an option for you ?


  • #3
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭Tipperary animal lover


    Sorry now, what do you mean bundle them together, won't that increase the price of the bill if adding the Internet to it!!


  • #4
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Tipperary animal lover wrote: »
    Sorry now, what do you mean bundle them together, won't that increase the price of the bill if adding the Internet to it!!

    Not for me, was paying 29e a month for a landline n call package , 31 a month for broadband. Now paying 41 a month for both with the same company .


  • #5
    phoenix999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    Tipperary animal lover wrote: »
    Hi all, I'm a full time carer for my partner, we got a letter from eircom today stating from the 1st of feb my telephone allowance will go from €22:58 to €9:50 a month, as we've to budget everything down to the last cent every month this is gonna knock the home phone on the head which my partner needs as mobile buttons to small, we've the electricity to be hit yet and the household charge to come( or mortgage is €600 a month which is killing us but don't want to lose our credit rating), have gone to cwo and she said she can't help, is there anybody who could give us some good advise, we're sitting here looking at the four walls totally depressed ....

    Yes my dad was getting the cash payment (for mobile phone and esb) of €62.40 a month. The first payment he got for 2013 was for €44.50. Quite a drop, he just rang Eircom and they put him a a longer contract bundle but knocked €6 off the monthly price. Try to haggle by signing up to a longer contract if that suits.


  • #6
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Ditch Eircom and get the best bundle you can afford from any of the other providers. They are all cheaper than Eircom. Also note that Sky are entering the Irish market in the next month or so and they will not be beaten on price. Have a look at the Broadband forum for news on that.


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