Attic clear out

Crunchienut

Found these in the attic over the weekend. Was so impressed when "Telecom Eireann" installed the Aisling

Ruu

Nice one! We had a similar model to the beige and blue ones on the bottom, except red when we got ours installed in 1995.

Del.Monte

The Aisling was so sexy and modern - nearly like being in America.

Crunchienut

Del.Monte wrote: »

The Aisling was so sexy and modern - nearly like being in America.

Remember the Shannon that came before it? Mine was grey with a black handset and buttons - I think it might have been the first "approved" push button phone. Was nearly worth paying the instrument rental for :rolleyes:

http://brandnewretro.ie/2012/10/23/launch-of-new-push-button-phones-irish-times-1982/

Del.Monte

The past is truly a foreign country.

fryup

those dial phones, the amount of wrong numbers we had to answer...nearly every second night

come to think of it we dial'ed a few wrong numbers ourselves

L1011

Make sure you're not paying Eircom about 2.50 a month 'rental' for every single one of those - the amount of people still paying that when the phone has been paid for hundreds of times over is unreal.

Crunchienut

L1011 wrote: »

Make sure you're not paying Eircom about 2.50 a month 'rental' for every single one of those - the amount of people still paying that when the phone has been paid for hundreds of times over is unreal.

I stopped paying it years ago - didn't realise that charge still existed - could be an expensive phone alright :eek:

fryup

L1011 wrote: »

Make sure you're not paying Eircom about 2.50 a month 'rental' for every single one of those - the amount of people still paying that when the phone has been paid for hundreds of times over is unreal.

:eek:jeepers must check the next bill.....what does it come under ?

Crunchienut

fryup wrote: »

:eek:jeepers must check the next bill.....what does it come under ?

As I recall it used to be shown as either equipment or instrument rental, directly under line rental. I can't believe anyone might still be paying this but worth checking nonetheless

L1011

fryup wrote: »

:eek:jeepers must check the next bill.....what does it come under ?

Equipment rental sounds right. There's a current price tarriff for it on the website so someone must be paying it.

The DSP negotiated to get Eircom to write it off for everyone on the benefits package back when they covered phone allowance; it was a permanent writeoff so that removed a huge amount of the potential customers. They probably should have just nuked the idea at the time but if people are going to pay 25+ quid a year for nothing they'll find it hard to give up!