What is the cheapest fixed line residential package available in Dublin area .

JerryMcguire

Hi ,

Any body any advice on how to cut down cost of phone bill .. basic residential package ... no internet.

Jerry.

Sleepy

Don't call mobiles from it. It's cheaper to call a mobile from your mobile than a landline.

RicardoSmith

I find the UTV talktime good.

Esel

Esat have a package called Advantage Plus for €25 a month.

With this, all calls less than one hour long to *anywhere* in Ireland or Britain are 'free'. Anytime - not just off-peak. If you want to keep talking after 59 mins - just hang up and redial.

RicardoSmith

esel wrote:

Esat have a package called Advantage Plus for €25 a month.

With this, all calls less than one hour long to *anywhere* in Ireland or Britain are 'free'. Anytime - not just off-peak. If you want to keep talking after 59 mins - just hang up and redial.

Thats the same as UTV init?

cormie

UTV just take your line rental, they don't charge you an extra 25 pm, by the sounds of it, esat do, but I could be wrong, and UTV is only off peak for free.

Esel

RicardoSmith wrote:

Thats the same as UTV init?

AFAIK, the UTV deal is off-peak only.

Depends on the OPs usage pattern I suppose.

I think the ESAT package is a good way to 'cap' your bill, providing you don't make calls to mobiles or international numbers.

gonker

Dont use Eircom
utv calls after 6 to landlines in uk and ireland up to one hour free. Expensive during the day and to abroad. www.u.tv
tele 2 www.tele2.ie all calls cheaper than eircom.
There is loads out there it depends on your usage if you are out at work all day and only make landline calls in the uk and ireland in the evening and weekend utv great my bills are only around 9euro a month.
My sister uses tele2 phones australia a lot so her bills have come down a lot only 10c to ring using tele2. All landline calls are local so if you are making national calls can save you too.
Euphony do landline calls for 10 but I think you have to be referred by a friend but if you make a lot of mobile calls its not great. Sit down look at your bill try a few different ones till you find one that suits dont sign any contracts just do bill by bill trials I change all the time and have settled on utv because they suit me.

muffler

From a personal point of view I would consider the Esat advantage plus (€25/month) to be the best value. The bulk of my calls are daytime local and national and I haven't seen anything to compare with this.

However if most of your calls are evening and weekend I would certainly shop around. You would need to go through your last few itemised bills in detail to see when you are using the phone the most. Some of the other companies are better than Esat when it comes to off-peak calls

The cost of calls from landlines to mobiles appear to much the same with all the phone companies

Gegerty

Have you got broadband? try http://www.skype.com/

pan

when you decide on a fixed line package, then use www.telestunt.ie to further reduce you bill.

bk

It depends on your usage, it breaks down like so:

UTV Talk

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Cost: you just pay UTV your line rental of €25 per month instead of Eircom. Total cost: €25

Free local, national and calls to the UK in the evening's and all day during the weekend.

Calls to Mobiles and peaktime calls are 5% cheaper then Eircom but should still be avoided.

Note the free calls are only for the first hour, they charge standard rates after that, however you can hang up before the hour and ring back again to get another free hour.

Esat Advantage Plus

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Cost: You pay them your line rental of €25 per month plus another €25 for the package. Total cost: €50

Free local and national calls at anytime (note not to the UK) at anytime, day or night, peak or offpeak.

Note again the free calls are only for the first hour, they charge standard rates after that, however you can hang up before the hour and ring back again to get another free hour.

So it depends, if you are at school/work during most of the day or call the UK a lot, then UTV is better.

If you work from home and make lots of daytime calls then Esat is better.

Either way avoid making mobile calls, they are expensive.

If you are making international calls then www.telestunt.ie are excellent. Telestunt **can** be used with either UTV and Esat.
With Telestunt you just dial a local or national rate number and then dial the number you want. There are no contracts or bills, the charges appear on your bill as regular local or national calls (BTW these use a special number so you won't get them free on UTV or Esat, the prices are standard Eircom local or national rates, still **very** cheap for international calls).

BTW I have UTV Talk and I'm very happy with it.

RicardoSmith

I'm on UTVIP Talktime and for ages I still had to pay eircom the line rental. Haven't checked it recently. Have they stopped the Eircom rental now?

Saruman

Telestunt rules!!! My wife and my house mates wife are American so call home every night with Telestunt and every 2 months we get a bill for something like €13 or so on telestunt calls.. We are talking hour long conversations to the US.
Costs a local call on your provider.

Line rental should be dropped by everyone, at the very least if you have a broadband package with them.

bk

RicardoSmith wrote:

I'm on UTVIP Talktime and for ages I still had to pay eircom the line rental. Haven't checked it recently. Have they stopped the Eircom rental now?

I'm still paying line rental to eircom. However it doesn't really matter, it is the same amount either way and the calls are free. It is only a matter of convenience.