UPC price hike (10 times that of inflation!)

degsie

Story here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/upc-increases-charges-for-second-time-in-12-months-1.1666815

Maybe time for ppl to shop around.

Arciphel

At least the Irish Times are reporting on it, the Indo isn't among a peep as they earn too much advertising revenue from UPC.

colm_mcm

All told, more than half a million subscribers will be hit by the charge which will take the monthly cost of television, broadband and phone packages to close to €100 a month.

faster broadband speeds - of up to 120Mb

One reader contacted The Irish Times last night

You'd wonder how much effort went into that article.

grasshopper1

degsie wrote: »

Story here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/upc-increases-charges-for-second-time-in-12-months-1.1666815

Maybe time for ppl to shop around.

Marian Finucane carried an interesting piece on UCP and it's hikes, worth listening to

grasshopper1

Mountjoy Mugger

Arciphel wrote: »

At least the Irish Times are reporting on it, the Indo isn't among a peep as they earn too much advertising revenue from UPC.

As much as I dislike the Indo, they have peeped.

My bill is going up by €3 per month for 30 meg broadband only. It would have been €6.50 if I wasn't registered online. So I'll be paying €39 per month whereas I started on €32.75 in late 2010.

The thing is, what alternative do I have? No VDSL here, so the alternative is to downgrade to 10 meg ADSL2+ and only save about €4 per month (Vodafone Simply Broadband). UPC know this and that's how they can get away with the hikes.

Ctrl Alt Del

No offence to anyone but if weren't for UPC i was still scrolling at 8M top speed.
Very happy day in my life (without my wife knowing) when 150 installed and now I'm waiting for 250M...
I would like to say thanks to UPC for taking a so big gamble and see it succeeding.
I remember the UPC vans and techies working day and sometime till late night upgrading the fibre in my estate.

Some people here have to understand that UPC infrastructure is upgraded on horizontal rather than on vertical, as per continent.
On same surface physical and geographical speaking, using same speeds/hardware/routers/software/techies on-house and on the road, here you can have lets say 10 houses with 5 bills while on the continent you can have 100 flats in a tall building with 50 bills.

When I got the contract with them and asked if ok contract for 12 months ,I told them I wanted for 5 years !

So, from my point, i wish them happy charging as long as the SLA and performance of the infrastructure doesn't deteriorate or even better, i see them investing in upgrading.

Happy surfing...

dub45

Ctrl Alt Del wrote: »

No offence to anyone but if weren't for UPC i was still scrolling at 8M top speed.
Very happy day in my life (without my wife knowing) when 150 installed and now I'm waiting for 250M...
I would like to say thanks to UPC for taking a so big gamble and see it succeeding.
I remember the UPC vans and techies working day and sometime till late night upgrading the fibre in my estate.

Some people here have to understand that UPC infrastructure is upgraded on horizontal rather than on vertical, as per continent.
On same surface physical and geographical speaking, using same speeds/hardware/routers/software/techies on-house and on the road, here you can have lets say 10 houses with 5 bills while on the continent you can have 100 flats in a tall building with 50 bills.

When I got the contract with them and asked if ok contract for 12 months ,I told them I wanted for 5 years !

So, from my point, i wish them happy charging as long as the SLA and performance of the infrastructure doesn't deteriorate or even better, i see them investing in upgrading.

Happy surfing...

Presumably like any business they researched the market and saw that it was a good investment opportunity. They are not here for the good of our health.

ED E

Ctrl Alt Del wrote: »

So, from my point, i wish them happy charging as long as the SLA and performance of the infrastructure doesn't deteriorate or even better, i see them investing in upgrading.

Happy surfing...

Just wait till your node is overloaded to f'ck, then you'll change your tune.

grasshopper1

dub45 wrote: »

Presumably like any business they researched the market and saw that it was a good investment opportunity. They are not here for the good of our health.

Ctrl Alt Del wrote: »

No offence to anyone but if weren't for UPC i was still scrolling at 8M top speed.
Very happy day in my life (without my wife knowing) when 150 installed and now I'm waiting for 250M...
I would like to say thanks to UPC for taking a so big gamble and see it succeeding.
I remember the UPC vans and techies working day and sometime till late night upgrading the fibre in my estate.

Some people here have to understand that UPC infrastructure is upgraded on horizontal rather than on vertical, as per continent.
On same surface physical and geographical speaking, using same speeds/hardware/routers/software/techies on-house and on the road, here you can have lets say 10 houses with 5 bills while on the continent you can have 100 flats in a tall building with 50 bills.

When I got the contract with them and asked if ok contract for 12 months ,I told them I wanted for 5 years !

So, from my point, i wish them happy charging as long as the SLA and performance of the infrastructure doesn't deteriorate or even better, i see them investing in
upgrading.

Happy surfing...

Are you working for UPC? It's a business, and it's a business where they have made a lot of money from it. I've no problem with that. I do have a problem when a Co. increases the cost to the consumer which is way above inflation. UPC is becoming a monopoly --it probably is judging from its advancement in the European market. I certainly don't seem much upgrading. I've had the same plastic modem, which costs about 3 euro for almost three years
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grasshopper1

I managed to drop my price increase to €1 per month and get more for my money too.

UPC have an offer online for a 50 meg service with phone at €37 per month. So I opted for that instead. At least I'm getting something for my extra €1 now.

megafan

Karsini wrote: »

My bill is going up by €3 per month for 30 meg broadband only. It would have been €6.50 if I wasn't registered online. So I'll be paying €39 per month whereas I started on €32.75 in late 2010.

The thing is, what alternative do I have? No VDSL here, so the alternative is to downgrade to 10 meg ADSL2+ and only save about €4 per month (Vodafone Simply Broadband). UPC know this and that's how they can get away with the hikes.

Well now that their increasing price gives you the chance to get out of contract... Do so & likely they'll offer you a discount to keep you + might even mean you'll end up paying less than you are now!....

gabbo is coming

Are all 50mb broadband products going to 120 Mb on Mar 1st?

TheDoc

I'm moving location in the coming month simply because my area does not have Fibre broadband.

I've no problem with UPC price hikes of a few euro. Yeah its not ideal, but at the same time their aggressive approach in this market has led to a somewhat faster expansion of networks and increase in capacity.

**** I remember what it was like with only Eircom as the supplier available..... €120 a month for a 256k line.....

Will happily be signing up with UPC again when I move, leaving Magnet, who while I've had really positive dealings with them, are absolutely hamstrung by the Eircom infra in the area. And unfortunately MAgnets own Fibre is a bit too expensive when you compare it to UPC, actually shockingly expensive.

Nody

grasshopper1 wrote: »

Are you working for UPC? It's a business, and it's a business where they have made a lot of money from it. I've no problem with that. I do have a problem when a Co. increases the cost to the consumer which is way above inflation. UPC is becoming a monopoly --it probably is judging from its advancement in the European market. I certainly don't seem much upgrading. I've had the same plastic modem, which costs about 3 euro for almost three years
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You are aware that inflation has very limited connection to with UPCs costs for their network, yes? And if you are so unhappy then vote with your feet and go to someone else... Oh wait, there is no one that's as good and cheap beyond the basic rates, damn you UPC for increasing your speeds so that other companies can't compete, damn you to hell!