Eir Sim Only Business Unlimited sim price INCREASE

cormie

I've been on this deal: https://business.eir.ie/product/sim-only-plan/ for a while now and it's realy good for my needs. Never have service issues, connection and 4g/3g data speeds seem fine and the inclusive calls to UK are important for me too. My bills are an avertage of about ?30 per month.

I got a letter recently stating that it will be increasing by ?5 per month which I was surprised to see at a time where most companies are reducing their mobile plans, especially with the new EU rules.

I'm just wonder if anyone else has been on this plan and found something consisting of similar to this:

?20 per month. (+VAT!!) -- WILL NOW BE INCREASING TO ?25+ VAT, so ?30.75.
Unlimited calls & texts
Unlimited calls
Unlimited texts

Unlimited
calls to landlines
15GB
Data
Roaming
Unlimited calls & texts
(UK, EU & USA)

1GB data roaming
( UK, EU & USA )
Unlimited Free social media
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & LinkedIn

*Inclusive minutes cover calls to ROI and UK, as well as roaming in the UK, EU and USA. 1GB of data can be used in either the UK, EU or USA. Out of bundle rates are the rates charged when the minutes/text/data allowance included in your plan is exceeded. Please check current out of bundle rates for UK, EU and USA, see eir.ie/business/roaming. eir Sim Only Unlimited Plan requires a 30 day notice period to cease. Allowance excludes roaming in all other destinations. Premium rate usage is excluded. Rates quoted exclude VAT.

Any input would be appreciated

ED E

cormie wrote: »

I got a letter recently stating that it will be increasing by ?5 per month which I was surprised to see at a time where most companies are reducing their mobile plans, especially with the new EU rules.

What country are you living in? Most of the telcos have failed to announce yet, and those who have came out with increases. Three is up 7%.

We'll see them all go up now as Europe has increased their costs base.

cormie

Ireland

I'm talking about how it's gotten so competitive lately in the mobile market with the likes of lyca, tesco, ID etc doing virtually unlimited plans from ?15-?20 including VAT?

PAKNET

All I'd say, personally, is try a SIM with each of the networks you mentioned.

Check call quality, call reliability, data speeds, data reliability and customer support.

Then make a determination...

TheDriver

and remember cheapest isn't always best regarding data rate, dropped calls. A quick google will also tell you a lot.
Remember too that some networks use the exact same infrastructure e.g. meteor and eir

whiterebel

I was looking around recently, and you'll find it hard to beat that on a business plan, even with the extra €5pm.

cormie

Yeah, when it comes to the roaming and calls to UK it seems so, but for domestic unlimited calls, texts and data, lyca have this deal:

Ireland Plus ?15.00
National Text Unlimited
National Data 30 GB
National Minutes Unlimited
Lyca to Lyca Calls Unlimited
Lyca to Lyca Text Unlimited

But when in the UK, they assign you a UK number, which is a definite no no.

Green farmer

Did you move in the end ? On same plan myself and planning on jumping ship.

Kristopherus

Green farmer wrote: »

Did you move in the end ? On same plan myself and planning on jumping ship.

I'm on that plan as well. Got the letter back in May. Went to all the websites of all the providers to see what I might eke out of them. In the end I decided to stay. I could'nt match that Eir tarriff with any of the other tarriffs. Forget about Lyca. They are not playing fair re EU roaming. To roam you have to pay a whole new set of fees for call, texts & data. Illegal imo.

cormie

Virgin seem to be offering a decent deal at the moment. It depends how often you call the UK I guess, but if not that often, switching to this for 6 months at €15 a month might be an option:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103922652&postcount=140

_Kaiser_

Worth noting that most of the other operators listed in this thread are piggy-backing on the 3 network which in my experience is mediocre at best. I was on a SIM only business plan with them but recently switched to a Vodafone equivalent consumer plan because I was sick of the terrible coverage.

cormie

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I was on a SIM only business plan with them but recently switched to a Vodafone equivalent consumer plan because I was sick of the terrible coverage.

You were with Virgin or Eir do you mean? Eir have a network separate to Three/Vodafone I believe, but Virgin might piggyback on Three's network?

_Kaiser_

cormie wrote: »

You were with Virgin or Eir do you mean? Eir have a network separate to Three/Vodafone I believe, but Virgin might piggyback on Three's network?

Sorry.. yes, was with 3 and yes Virgin do piggyback on their network - as do 48, lyca and Tesco

Eir and Meteor are different brands of the same company and yes have their own network which is somewhere between 3 and Vodafone in terms of quality. Eir's customer care and billing ops though (certainly on the consumer side) is nowhere near as good however.

Vodafone have their own network but again suffer from variable customer care. They're also very expensive.

cormie

When I was with Vodafone I found the business customer care phone line pretty good in that you'd get through to someone straight away. I think I had a few problems with roaming, but maybe that was eir, I can't remember. VF were constantly overcharging me though! http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057087135

I also think Vodafone had some coverage issues where I live. Service seems fine with Eir and I've rarely had to call customer care. I'll probably stick with them for now.

ED E

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Sorry.. yes, was with 3 and yes VF do piggyback on their network - as do 48, lycra and Tesco

Slight typo K, Virgin not VF.

ED E

cormie wrote: »

When I was with Vodafone I found the business customer care phone line pretty good in that you'd get through to someone straight away. I think I had a few problems with roaming, but maybe that was eir, I can't remember. VF were constantly overcharging me though! http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057087135

I also think Vodafone had some coverage issues where I live. Service seems fine with Eir and I've rarely had to call customer care. I'll probably stick with them for now.

Voda Corporate are very good but their systems seem to LOVE to disable roaming on corporate handsets. Pain in the neck to keep calling them when you change country. They can re-enable it but never prevent recurrence.

neeb03

I am also in the same boat as you. Was on business plan, sim only and was never informed of the increase as they did not take down my business address correctly when I signed up. Very miffed at the increase and the Vodafone 25 inclusive of vat, sim only is tempting