Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » What was the issue out of interest?
irishfeen wrote: » Hey lads and ladies, eir vans now around Bweeng in North Co.Cork for this rural rollout. We are just outside where they are showing on the map where there will be covering but we have noticed Eir have been looking at the pole's outside our house too. Is there any examples of where Eir have gone further then the marked areas on their map?
Gonzo wrote: » it's happened for the rollout in Ratoath and Athboy and I'm sure some other places as well. In some cases they have extended by 3 or 4 houses where it makes sense to or if there is an error on the map.
irishfeen wrote: » This is the exact situation with us, there are 4 houses grouped together but it would mean about 720m of extra cabling along the poles... we are thinking that 700 odd meter's might be too much though... between us and the village (about 3.6km away) they have only marked in the 9 houses to be hooked up.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I've seen it extended about 250m for one home so you may have a chance. Have they marked the poles in any way do you know?
Gonzo wrote: » a good initial sign would be maybe blue paint marked on a pole or some letters painted into the road nearby. asking the crew can often yield no results. When the rollout first started in my area, i was unsure and asked was this the start of the fibre rollout and he just laughed and said my area had no chance of ever getting fibre. A few weeks later when KN were working on the ducting I asked again was this for the rural rollout and the guys said they hadn't a clue what it was for, that they were just contracted to do ducting.
irishfeen wrote: » Have no idea but I will take a look, my father seen them last Saturday pulled up outside the house looking at the poles, that evening he also seen them driving slowly past in the van looking at the poles/lines.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I just had a look at the map there. Bweeng has no core fibre as far as I can see. Are you located on the road to Mallow? If so unfortunately it may be possible that they were checking the route for the core fibre to Bweeng. The fact it was an eir (Openeir) van may support this.
irishfeen wrote: » Yep, on the Mallow road - I would have presumed they would run the core from Donoughmore but you probably are right and they will run it from Dromahane. I presume though that if they are using the poles for the core network that we would still might have a chance as they could do the 2 in the one go perhaps?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » My own guess would be that they would not do the two jobs at once but I could be wrong. KN usually do the access fibre. I don't know if they are involved with the core.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » You were right. I just checked and Bweeng is due to be fed from Blarney which I presume would be through Donoughmore.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I got the letter from eir saying that my bundle was going up by €6 per month. After the 12 months the 300Mb with calls will be €89. I reckon I'll be switching to a broadband only package with another supplier after the year is up.
Marlow wrote: » The letters, I've seen, state that you can break contract before a certain date because they are raising the price, disregardless when your contract is up originally. That should be the case anyhow. /M
fritzelly wrote: » VM even after the promotion is only 64 a month (for 360mb). That's some markup by eir but they all seem to be doing it after the promo period. Cannot see why it costs so much more with eir et al for basically the same service
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I could break it alright but I'd lose the €100 that they gave me (in credit) for breaking my Imagine contract. Plus it is still "only" €69 per month for the remaining nine months.
Marlow wrote: » Oh .. they do recoup the credit, if you exit early ? Cheeky. /M
Marlow wrote: » It makes no sense. Especially with their fair use policy and charge for going over. The reason is more likely, that they're now desperate for recouping the 300-500 EUR they forked out with free installation and buy-out from other providers (per customer). That cost is the reason, that all other providers can't/won't offer free installation .. if it's a new OpenEIR connection. /M
thehorse wrote: » Yeah, I got a letter from eir too about the price hike. I can cancel the contract at no cost but now that fibre is only a few weeks away, I’ll stay put. Is it true that only eir can sell FTTH ?.....they say that only Eir can sell the 150/300/1000mb packages
Marlow wrote: » No. 8 providers with the FTTH icon on OpenEIR sell FTTH on http://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/where-to-buy/ Saying that only Eir can sell FTTH would be an outright lie ! /M
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » No!!, other suppliers can sell it.
