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keithclancy wrote: »Jesus Christ ... how come mobile rates in Ireland are so cheap ..... getting raped here in the Netherlands and Germany by T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN, O2 etc
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Competition ! The Irish mobile sector's actually pretty seriously competitive and ComReg got the switching policies right. It takes about 3 to 15 mins to switch networks in Ireland, vs quite cumbersome processes in other countries that tend to take up to a week in some cases.
If we could get the landline sector into the same kind of mode, especially for broadband it would be great.
Ireland's definitely ahead on mobile data too compared to quite a few places I've lived. The mobile networks here seem to offer cheaper, faster data with much bigger allowances and far fewer restrictions.
These were the cheapest prepay I could find in Belgium, and they've just recently come to the netherlands too : https://mobilevikings.com/nld/en/
Check out the dutch MVNOs too : http://www.prepaidmvno.com/mvno-companies/eu-mvno-companies/nl-mvno-companies/ You might find far better offers than the main networks.
The links on that page don't work but just google the names one by one until you find a decent operator!
Still expensive, but maybe better than some of the others in NL.
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I'm on the Tesco SIM-only €35 for a few months and it's a great setup.
The data's capped at 2mbit/s at the moment, but it's definitely reliably 2mbit/s and seems fine for spotify and youtube etc.
Other big positives:
1) Very cheap international calls (1 or 2 cent per min to most places (landlines and landlines/mobiles in the US/Canada as they don't distinguish).
2) Visual voicemail using Hullomail's totally free.0 -
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Are they not all 30 day contracts? Still very short of course, but not a few hours?
Would be nice to get the same kind of deal PLUS a free phone if any of the networks wanted you for 12/18/24 months and were reliable enough to go with?0 -
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Is your mam a big phone user? If not then the Tesco PAYG €25 offer might be worth considering with the option of moving to a contract after that offer is up. Worth trying out that one first before diving into a contract straight away. There is free unlimited texts with that offer as well.
Yeah she'd be a heavy enough caller and texter alright so I think something where she knew spending x amount would give her unltd use would be pretty good for her, it'd keep the landline bill down too probably. Problem is, she needs a new phone and I was hoping there'd be a contract she could get into where she'd be spending the money anyway, but would get a free phone by just agreeing to spend it with the same company for 12/18 months 0 -
Yeah she'd be a heavy enough caller and texter alright so I think something where she knew spending x amount would give her unltd use would be pretty good for her, it'd keep the landline bill down too probably. Problem is, she needs a new phone and I was hoping there'd be a contract she could get into where she'd be spending the money anyway, but would get a free phone by just agreeing to spend it with the same company for 12/18 months
In that case a contract would be appropriate. But why is she retaining the landline if she had a mobile on contract? Eliminating the line rental costs on that alone would go a long way towards the monthly mobile contract costs.0 -
Yeah she'd be a heavy enough caller and texter alright so I think something where she knew spending x amount would give her unltd use would be pretty good for her, it'd keep the landline bill down too probably. Problem is, she needs a new phone and I was hoping there'd be a contract she could get into where she'd be spending the money anyway, but would get a free phone by just agreeing to spend it with the same company for 12/18 months
three are not bad for the free phone €30.50 a month.
http://www.three.ie/products_services/priceplans/billpay/best_value.html
or get a phone of adverts.ie and go with €20 top up http://www.three.ie/online/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=267&p=voice&tariffType=prepay&step=2&src=p&edt=0&itemId=0&dch=00 -
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So with the three €20 a month top up, you pretty much get everything included in that for one month, and then you have €20 to go towards international calls, 1890's etc, is that how it works? Only downside is if you forget to top up after a month, you could use up all your credit in a few minutes if you end up watching something on youtube! It happened me
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So with the three €20 a month top up, you pretty much get everything included in that for one month, and then you have €20 to go towards international calls, 1890's etc, is that how it works? Only downside is if you forget to top up after a month, you could use up all your credit in a few minutes if you end up watching something on youtube! It happened me
Hang on. The 3 €20 top-up offer only includes weekend calls free. So not comparable.0 -
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The Tesco data speeds aren't wonderful, but they "do".
I'm considering EMobile at the moment because their data rates are way better.
Tesco in Cork City Centre ;
That being said, it's still doing faster uploads than my "up to 24mbit" smart telecom line (4km line length, 2km walking distance) to the exchange :
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I have been on the three offer for about 18 months now and have always been tethering. They don't try and stop you!
Also, when I signed up, they were also running another offer which gets me an extra €10 credit per month.
So altogether for €20 I get: €30 credit to use, All you can eat data (With tethering
), Unlimited 3-to-3 calls, Unlimited any network texts, Unlimited any network calls.
Three's call coverage is grand, they piggyback on the Vodafone network so can be gotten anywhere there's a vodafone signal. Data can be a bit of a nightmare outside of towns and citys. I would advise against three if you live in a rural area.0 -
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