Eir - now offering 2Gb fibre broadband and new WiFi 7 device

How is it overpriced when Vodafone are charging €65 per month for 6 months and €70 after it.

Blacknight is €74.99 per month. Virgin is €55 per month

After the recent storm, I lost my fibre connection. Yeah, You can't contact them at any hour, but after I did and reported the fault, I got an email back to assure me they hadn't forgotten about it and as things turned out - which I half expected - the line came back when area wide power was restored, so likely it was the exchange. They did respond later also.

Thing is with Eir, their customer service may not be the best, but from a technical standpoint, you rarely ever have an issue or need to contact them, so it more than balances out. I switched to them from another provider that had far better customer support, but a far worse network that frequently had issues to contact them about.

I far prefer Eir where I don't have issues to report in the first place.

You are right, their tech staff know what they are doing and do a very good job. It's the billing part that they can and very often mess up spectacularly and then based on experience will be months getting it sorted.

I'm curious by the upgrade thing, because in my experience eir have been happy to upgrade midcontract provided you're giving them more money each month!

Has anyone already incontract tried to ring them and see?

This was on the website now - I didn't ring them.

I dunno about this.

The biggest issue I have with Eir (and indeed many providers now) is the CPI + Percentage annual increase in your bill - whether you are on a 12/24 month contract or otherwise.

It's also somewhat "scammy" I would say in advertising your mobile service as 9.99 per month, when that will increase annually, as well as your other fixed costs.

Now I know its not only Eir that do this.

I tend to swap providers depending on deals and was with Vodafone for a long time until they changed their TV offering. Eir was the next best thing so moved to them last year on the 500MB package (they also managed to upgrade me to fibre at the time with the contractor doing a great job (Appreciate its the same contractor for both but getting the fibre upgrade via Vodafone was difficult for a number of reasons.

As for a 2GB connection - at the moment its overkill for the vast majority of the population due to hardware and provider constraints, hell even 1 GB is - but there very obviously is a market there for it.

eir, like Vodafone have switched to a set euro-amount increase. Probably in response to the government milling about banning CPI+% increases!

It's super scummy of them. If you sign up for a €9.99 SIMO today, your price will increase by €2.50 from April, a 25% increase! Best sign up in March as the first increase is the April 2026 one.

I'm currently with Vodafone on 2Gb but using OpenEir backend instead of SIRO. Had speed issues in then beginning with line provissioned for 1800Mbps and not 2000MBps
Interesting Eir finally offering 2Gb fully themselves, and with a free upgrade to 5GB@50pm, it will put some serious competition on the market for high speed. Not that anyone will really care about it completely, but at that price point, it will be had to convince folks to pay 40 for 500Mb.

So thats VM and Eir offering 5GB by Q3.
SIRO likely won't be too far behind.

What is the market for high speed? Consumer end hardware that can fully utilise 2 GBs is near nonexistent, let alone 5 GBs. I'm extremely sceptical there is much of a market.

All i can think of is multi user environments with heavy streaming.
I know on my 1gb sky with siro, i can make the modem have an error by just downloading a game from psn or other bandwidth heavy tasks, and thats just in a 5 person household with only one heavy user.

Has anyone seen any specs on the router? Will a free ISP router have 4x 2.5GB Lan ports? Or will they be heavily trying to rely on wifi7 to carry more than 1Gb to user devices?