Smart 6m/512k for Christmas

bk · 08-12-2005 08:48PM #1

Smart are giving their current customers 6m/512k for one month over Christmas at no extra charge:

http://support.smarttelecom.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=85

Nice Christmas present.

Maskhadov · 08-12-2005 08:59PM

struth !!

Deception217 · 08-12-2005 09:20PM

What happens after xmas?

zuma · 08-12-2005 09:26PM

It might also be a testing period!

If the tests are positive with a large amount of people able to get the allocated 6/0.5 then they will have a big add campaign showing it off.

Eircom have no hope of offering such a product to the average home user as their current Corp product will only get an upgrade to 5M as any higher would probable lead to a lot of trouble..not to mentiom the HUGE montly cost!!!

Couch Potato · 08-12-2005 09:53PM

seems silly to me to give the customer something for free and then take it away

machalla · 08-12-2005 09:59PM

Its possibly also a test to see how many customers use it, how they use it (suddenly turn into demon downloaders) and possibly just a test to see how many lines can take it (mine can't damn it!).

Maybe they are just doing it coz they are nice people

I've been using 512k up on my line for the last couple of months and its just superb. A little for bittorrenting but I also am now able to run a file storage server and more from home that has proven so handy. I wouldn't have bothered over a 128k up link.

It changed the way I used the service.

SeaSide · 08-12-2005 10:04PM

Couch Potato wrote:

seems silly to me to give the customer something for free and then take it away

I hear its more addictive than crack

DingChavez · 08-12-2005 10:10PM

Eircom will probably send an E-mail that will give 2cent off our next bill if you spend an hour filling out a Christmas survey..

bk · 09-12-2005 01:45AM

SeaSide wrote:

I hear its more addictive than crack

NTL gave us 10m/512k for one day and then the next day they took it away :mad:

Man it is so mean to have these types of speeds and then take it away.

the corpo · 09-12-2005 12:45PM

this is deadly, much respect to smart

Mountjoy Mugger · 10-12-2005 09:31PM

Fantastic news. Time to install a bigger HDD.

rabbitinlights · 11-12-2005 04:33PM

Holy Crap.

Just got Smart BB turned on yesterday.........

what great news! Thanks Smart!!

Drapper · 11-12-2005 04:50PM

bk wrote:

NTL gave us 10m/512k for one day and then the next day they took it away :mad:

Man it is so mean to have these types of speeds and then take it away.

It will be back

rabbitinlights · 11-12-2005 04:52PM

From whats being said on the smart forums, I think people have an option to keep the 6MB/512kb for a small price increase.

S.

PowerHouseDan · 11-12-2005 04:54PM

Was talkin to a guy who just ordered smart. He siad that they were upgrading the speeds after christmas.

GarfieldConnoll · 11-12-2005 04:58PM

rabbitinlights wrote:

From whats being said on the smart forums, I think people have an option to keep the 6MB/512kb for a small price increase.
S.

Rabbit,

I don't think we ever said it would be 'small' price increase.:)

Garfield.

rabbitinlights · 11-12-2005 05:19PM

I knew that would get an answer from you.......!!

S.

Anarchist · 12-12-2005 02:29PM

the corpo wrote:

this is deadly, much respect to smart

Since I joined them 10 days ago I have had nothing but smiles all round, their customer service is excellent on their forums and they always have 2-3 mods including Gareth to handle the questions.
Smart have also phoned me and asked how my BB was going too lol
I am getting almost the full 2mb connection (1972) unlike Eircoms which was 1712 and of course it is so much much cheaper.
wish their was a loveheart smilie ;]

Anarchist · 12-12-2005 02:30PM

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layke · 12-12-2005 07:10PM

zuma wrote:

It might also be a testing period!

If the tests are positive with a large amount of people able to get the allocated 6/0.5 then they will have a big add campaign showing it off.

Eircom have no hope of offering such a product to the average home user as their current Corp product will only get an upgrade to 5M as any higher would probable lead to a lot of trouble..not to mentiom the HUGE montly cost!!!

I know Eircom like forcing people who need phat pipes to purchase leased lines thats where the big bucks are and they would lose huge profits if people started getting cheap affordable BB. Hence the reason why most of you are stuck with crappy 128k u/l speeds and capped. It's not about Eircom being unable to do this, I know a load of engineers in that ompany and the entire network is wrigged with the latest Juniper gear and is fully ADSL2.

Once again rip off Ireland has come into play.

CyberGhost · 12-12-2005 08:32PM

DingChavez wrote:

Eircom will probably send an E-mail that will give 2cent off our next bill if you spend an hour filling out a Christmas survey..

lol so true!

btw, don't want to sound ungreatful but, giving 6/0.5 and then taking it away really sucks! it's real easy to get used to that kind of speed, and later when you are back to your normal 2/12.8 you feel really empty inside *sniff* and Christmas is not really a good time for giving high speeds, I mean who will use it? Christmas is the time to spend time with family and take some time off the computers, at least for me it is.

I hope Smart are testing and will keep those speeds or atleast upgrade soon after downgrading smart customers.

GarfieldConnoll · 12-12-2005 08:38PM

CyberGhost wrote:

<snip> don't want to sound ungreatful <snip>

Hence the ungrateful bit then

Garfield.

CyberGhost · 12-12-2005 08:43PM

GarfieldConnoll wrote:

Hence the ungrateful bit then

Garfield.

I can't be ungrateful, I don't even have Smart BB

(
have the telephone though

Oh how I'd love to be a bit ungrateful SmartBB user

GarfieldConnoll · 12-12-2005 09:06PM

CyberGhost wrote:

I can't be ungrateful, I don't even have Smart BB (
have the telephone though
Oh how I'd love to be a bit ungrateful SmartBB user

Dear Santa,

Can we please have loads of ungrateful SmartBB customers next year? Ideally ones whose principal complaint is that they can only get 5Mb out of their promotional 6Mb line.

Garfield.

CyberGhost · 12-12-2005 09:14PM

lol I hope, I hope

Drapper · 12-12-2005 10:01PM

GarfieldConnoll wrote:

Dear Santa,

Can we please have loads of ungrateful SmartBB customers next year? Ideally ones whose principal complaint is that they can only get 5Mb out of their promotional 6Mb line.

Garfield.

lol SAnta give him all the IBB moaners too !!

GarfieldConnoll · 12-12-2005 10:07PM

Drapper wrote:

lol SAnta give him all the IBB moaners too !!

Letter Addendum

Dear Santa,

We're looking for unreasonable happy customers, not reasonable unhappy customers.

And a pony. Thanks,

Garfield.

Drapper · 12-12-2005 10:11PM

GarfieldConnoll wrote:

Letter Addendum

Dear Santa,

We're looking for unreasonable happy customers, not reasonable unhappy customers.

And a pony. Thanks,

Garfield.

Dude the best humoured Broadband Company has to go to SMART !

BTW the people of BLanch and surrounding areas demand your presence!

Why not take a spur of the T50????? Magnet are

GarfieldConnoll · 12-12-2005 10:15PM

Drapper wrote:

Why not take a spur of the T50????? Magnet are

Drapper,

We manage/ part own the T50, so we're working on it! If for no other reason than to get our IT Manager off our backs

Garfield.

Drapper · 12-12-2005 10:18PM

good man ! Any plans to FTTH ?

GarfieldConnoll · 12-12-2005 10:31PM

Drapper wrote:

good man ! Any plans to FTTH ?

Drapper,

Old news, believe it or not. We've quite a few FTTH sites live, or under build. Magnet get much better PR than us for this. Well done Magnet. But we're there too, possibly even earlier and more coverage, though I'm not that close to that project.

Garfield.

Smart 6m/512k for Christmas

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