Broadband switch deals

You have a 14 day cooling off period so just tell them to cancel it and see what they offer you.

It took a lot of work on the phone, but I got Virgin media 500mb down to 35 euro for 9 months, then 70 euro for 3 months. I don't want hassle of switching and find them reliable so took it (been 4ish years of same stupid bloody dance with them!).

Contract not up for a while yet, but have been with most companies at this stage for FTTH, inc Eir, Sky, vodafone and Pure and Pure wins hands down. Good price for initial year, someone knowledgeable and understandable on the phone for tech and short waiting times and the least amount of hassle with buffering etc. Only issue is when the initial year is up it goes from 35 to 55 and in my own experience no budging on the price, so i inevitably try some other deal. Sky , good price, endless buffering, despite supposed better speeds, constant attempts to sell you something and long waiting times for support. Eir, I detest as a company, hanging up and letting on the call dropped was exposed as one of their tactics, got them for initial install about 5 yrs ago and not heard of any significant improvement since then. Vodafone, good at first, then combined their 2.4 & 5 g and were adamant it could not be split, really poor attitude on the phone and ended up splitting it myself as i have two devices that only run on 2.4g, they then said I was breaking the rules, so said fair enough see ye.

If Pure did their offer of 35 for all customers for FTTH and after initial offer ends they even just increased it slightly I would stick with them, just my experience and thats with 3 gamers int he house.

If you can get SIRO they have up to 1GB speeds.

Tap your Eircode in on switcher.ie

I'm with Imagine but learned by an Eir salesman that broadband is now in my area.

Offered me 55 a month for tv, apple tv, prime and "unlimited" broadband.

Are they really an awful company to sign up with?

How would I know if it would be FTTH or FTTC?

Eir have a solid network for Internet and home phone, can't speak for TV. But their billing is the worst I've ever seen and they had to have a separate excel spreadsheet for me compared to the systems billing. Had to call back every month for a while to bring it back down to where it should be. Saying that, I've been with them the last two years and intend to stay with them if they match Pure Telecom. If not, I'm all Pure Telecom. But only 1 year contract at a time this round to keep them honest

Eir Gigabit fibre broadband is all FTTH according to their website

Am with Sky, 500gB, out of contract for months at €60 pm having gone up from €30 for the 12 month contract . They offered €50pm for same but I rejected and tried again today. Renewed today for €40pm for 12mths fyi if anyone in same position.

I second that. I am 10 months with pure and I am sure they will not offer me anything better than the increased price after initial first year.

Thise 10 months, zero loss of connection, working 100% from home, 2 gamers, all possible streaming and zero issues.

I was with sky before and once or twice a month i had the loss of connection for 1 min or 2... Not going to eir as a principal, so im afraid i will have to either try virgin for a year or back to sky for a long year before going back to pure

I have my own mesh with 2 asus routers so im using the isp machine only as a modem.

A few of the Telco's have introduced this over the last year or so. It not illegal and it will be in the T&Cs when you sign up to them. But its not necessarily obvious either in the advertisng.

I agree with your sentiment. But as a consumer we have a choice and my VF contract is up this month and I am looking only at plans that dont have the CPI+ increase in built into the contract.

Companies will try this on as long as customers pay up - thats why its important to vote with your feet. If they start to lose market share then these fees will get dropped.

Its based on the annual figure for January 2024 which will be published in a weeks time on 15/02. Dec 2023 was 4.6%.

If you on €35/month with no contract, you could wait until April and then check to see if there is a better deal on with all providers.

As you typically need to contract for 12 months, it would mean any providers that have the CPI+ increases in their T&Cs (eg Eir & VF), you would only get this charge of a few euros in the last month of your contact as typically these increases happen in April.

But even at €35/month regardless is very good pricing and you are not in contract.

I think speed is usually the same with whoever you go with it. They all use the same infrastructure if I remember correctly.

Only difference is usually the equipment and customer service.

I was with Vodafone for years before with FTTC. Was ok but was a pain to ring them when something went wrong.

Calls were usually dropped or the person on the phone couldn't speak English great.

Moved to pure with the FTTC and they are brilliant.

Any issues I had they could sort it, no kind of language barrier as everyone I got on the phone spoke English perfectly.

I recently got upgraded to FTTH and went very smoothly with pure.

I'll be interested to see what happens in April. I was told that my price will increase by CPI+3% in April when I recontracted in Jan 24. What I was told is also as stated in their T&C's.

Yep I rang Vodafone and the best they would do was 40 euro a month for 12 months or 35 euro for the first 6 months and 45 for the next 6 months(same amount of money anyway) so I'm leaving them for Pure Telecom.