Phone charges for connecting you Digibox?

LegacyUser · 10-05-2001 6:29pm #1

Hi guys - if you plug your Digibox into the phone socket do eircom end up charging you for the calls it makes when you book a movie, etc? I like the idea of not having to call up the freephone number manualy evertime I want to book something but I'm afraid after a month of doing that I'll get a whopper of an international phone bill from eircom.

Mark.

LegacyUser · 10-05-2001 8:12pm

Originally posted by MarkHenry:
Hi guys - if you plug your Digibox into the phone socket do eircom end up charging you for the calls it makes when you book a movie, etc?

as far as I know it uses a 1800 irish no.

Regards Tony

LegacyUser · 11-05-2001 8:56pm

What is the free-phone number?

LegacyUser · 12-05-2001 2:17am

i have never been charged. if it is a 1800 number Eircom or Esat cant charge, so in my house at least it is free to buy a film off of Sky Box Office

LegacyUser · 12-05-2001 1:27pm

I'll check my next itemised bill - see if it comes up. I thought I spotted it before, but I didn't keep a record. It is certainly freephone (1800), though, AFAIK.

LegacyUser · 13-05-2001 2:06pm

I am fairly sure it is a 1800 number - I have been using Box Office for a few months now and have not seen any international numbers show up. Nor have I seen any numbers that I don't recognise - as far as I know, 1800 numbers do not show up on Eircom bills.

LegacyUser · 13-05-2001 5:34pm

Yes, it's definitely a Freefone number although I don't know what the number is.

LegacyUser · 14-05-2001 7:56am

You can check out the telephone numbers your digibox is programmed with. Goto Services - Telephone Numbers. You'll see that SKY is a 1800 number, but most other numbers are 0044

LegacyUser · 14-05-2001 8:02am

Sorry Go Services -> System Setup -> Telephone Numbers.

LegacyUser · 14-05-2001 9:46am

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bofh:
Sorry Go Services -> System Setup -> Telephone Numbers.</font>

I think these are the numbers you ring to speak to somebody (for example to subscribe to a channel). I may be mistaken, but I don't think this lists the number the digi box dials for interactive services. I assume that as it is a machine/modem answering the number, they don't want people ringing it, so don't list it.

LegacyUser · 14-05-2001 8:55pm

Youre quite right Tom, these numbers are for u to ring whoever personally (even though u get stuck on a goddamned machine for halfhour). The fone no is definitely free as Sky said it is also, I never had any unusual fone nos on the fonebill.

WILL D

Phone charges for connecting you Digibox?

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