Eircom price increase!!!

shrek008

Letter from eircom today saying that they are raising the monthly price plan costs and also increasing cost for calls outside your plan and also you will no longer be able to send or receive texts on home phone!! Surely its down these charges should be going not up!!! We could do without home phone but need the broadband,any options for a rural west of Ireland household?

biko

You can check costs and coverage on
http://www.uswitch.ie/broadband/
http://www.uswitch.ie/broadband/compare/broadband-and-home-phone/
http://www.bonkers.ie/compare-tv-broadband-phone/

nice_guy80

cannot believe people are still with Eircom!

BullBauld

nice_guy80 wrote: »

cannot believe people are still with Eircom!

What's the alternatives around Roscommon (serious question, not being smart!)

nice_guy80

any other company!

biko

Maybe try this - recommend a solution instead of general giving out?

BullBauld

nice_guy80 wrote: »

any other company!

Thank you, most helpful!

nice_guy80

vodafone home

mass_debater

nice_guy80 wrote: »

vodafone home

That's just resold Eircom bitstream, Eircom still get the line rental

shrek008

Can you have the broadband without having to have the home phone as well?

evolutionqy7

BullBauld wrote: »

What's the alternatives around Roscommon (serious question, not being smart!)

What about Vodafone at home or Sky broadband? Only alternative after that is either mobile broadband or local satellite broadband providers which are generally very poor and expensive.

dbit

Just woke up to this lovely email today .
We are writing to inform you of some amendments to your eircom service, which will come into effect no sooner than 30 days from the issue date of this email. These changes will be reflected in bills issued after 15th April 2015.

The changes are summarised as follows:

An increase to the monthly charge for your broadband bundle of between €3 and €5
An increase to the call set up fee and call rates for certain calls made outside of your voice plan allowance. These charges will only apply if you make these calls outside of the included minutes of your voice plan.
The Fixed SMS service, which is the ability to send text messages from your home phone and which may be included in your plan, will be withdrawn from 30th June 2015. It will not be possible to send or receive text messages via your home phone after this date. Certain security and alarm monitoring services may be impacted by this change and we would advise you to contact your alarm monitoring supplier for further information. This Fixed SMS service withdrawal does not affect the sending or receiving of text messages on mobile phones.


4 months and counting bye bye eircom.

locteau

I am with vodafone, very happy with the services of the line (speed) while eircom was diificult to provide same broadband on the same line :-)

Feytyer

So i'm just wondering,

I got that wonderful email yesterday which I was delighted with as I have been thinking about leaving eircom for a good while now.

Just wondering, does anyone know how the cancelling work? As in, do they cancel it straight away and you have no service etc at once, or do they keep your account open till the bill increases??

Also what if I want to switch to another network? Does the no fee cancelation thing still apply?

Any help is appreciated!!

Feytyer

So i'm just wondering,

I got that wonderful email yesterday which I was delighted with as I have been thinking about leaving eircom for a good while now.

Just wondering, does anyone know how the cancelling works? As in, do they cancel the service straight away and you have no service etc at once, or do they keep your account open till the bill increases??

Also what if I want to switch to another network? Does the no fee cancelation thing still apply?

Any help is appreciated!!

locteau

I think when I swapped with vodafone, they took care of everything, was very easy.