Eir - who? what?

RayM · 16-09-2015 05:22PM

It's appropriate that they've removed the 'com' bit. As anyone who has ever dealt with eircom customer care will know, communication has never been their strong point. They'd be better off investing €16 million into not treating their customers like shit. Awful company.

The Backwards Man · 16-09-2015 05:24PM

Still the P&T to me.

Harry Palmr · 16-09-2015 05:27PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

eir.com

I suspect this site is just waiting for an offer.

http://www.eir.com/

KungPao · 16-09-2015 05:37PM

I hear some other companies are following suit. Rolling out in 2016 we will have:

Twit
Face
Sam
Goo

Eir is a crap name.

Paramite Pie · 16-09-2015 05:39PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

worst rebrand since marathon became snickers

what the f*ck is a marathon bar???

my friend · 16-09-2015 05:42PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I suspect this site is just waiting for an offer.

http://www.eir.com/

Looks like a CIA front setup

Harry Palmr · 16-09-2015 05:50PM

Paramite Pie wrote: »

what the f*ck is a marathon bar???

The correct name for a Snickers.

LordSutch · 16-09-2015 05:50PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Eircom is now Eir - 16 million euro to rebrand the company and drop three letters. Apparently the new name reflects the companies confidence. Surely it reflects quite the opposite.

Interestingly Eir was a Norse goddess who brought medical help to those who needed it.

I thought Eircom had a good ring to it (excuse the pun), and being a telecom company the 'com' part of the name sounded just right, and it made perfect sense as a Telecom company!

Eir might sound like ear, err, her, air, hair . . .

What a stupid name change.

legocrazy505 · 16-09-2015 05:51PM

Eircom should have never been privatised in the first place had the government at the time actually had any sense. Broadband infrastructure is the new electricity, it's key that Ireland like many of it's neighbours catches up in this area fast. The government and providers' plans are simply not ambitious enough, the government can't really do much though when they don't own the infrastructure.

Though Eircom, who were in examinership only recently are now spending 16 million on a completely frivolous rebranding. Changing your name does not hide the fact your services and roll-out of even FTTC to rural and urban Ireland are subpar.

wendell borton · 16-09-2015 05:58PM

The logo looks like someone being eaten by a giant e with tentacles.

DoYouEvenLift · 16-09-2015 06:08PM

Lmfao at the absolutely appalling Photoshop quality on that picture of the van and the man in the hard hat. Looks like it was made in Microsoft paint. Dear God, are Irish businesses really this bad at small things like this? They could've paid someone on fiverr and gotten a much better result, and it probably would've been done by a teenager.

riclad · 16-09-2015 07:18PM

Does,nt this happen every few years,
a company spends x million on a new name .
Usually companys that have average customer service .
From what i read on forums ,
ireland ,at least dublin , has better broadband than many us citys.
Theres comcast and att in the us and they don,t really compete with each other .
Most People have a choice of att or the local cable tv for broadband in america .
Eircom was sold 2 or 3 times to various companys .
eircom makes since a telecom company, eir sounds like air .
Its meaningless .
They could have spent that money on providing better broadband in rural area,s .

donegaLroad · 16-09-2015 07:57PM

riclad wrote: »

Does,nt this happen every few years,
a company spends x million on a new name .
Usually companys that have average customer service .
From what i read on forums ,
ireland ,at least dublin , has better broadband than many us citys.
Theres comcast and att in the us and they don,t really compete with each other .
Most People have a choice of att or the local cable tv for broadband in america .
Eircom was sold 2 or 3 times to various companys .
eircom makes since a telecom company, eir sounds like air .
Its meaningless .
They could have spent that money on providing better broadband in rural area,s .

I think it can be written off against tax at the end of the year. I think anything a company spends on its advertising can be written off, and branding comes under this.

kirving · 16-09-2015 08:09PM

'Fib-eir'. A ha! I've figured it out!

Jhcx · 16-09-2015 08:15PM

Was looking today in town saw the shop thought the ejit that owns it had just gone back to being independent. logo looked like ei so thats why my bills went up to pay for this silly over priced rebranding. what they need to do now is sell the telephone lines from eircom and make them public. bloody line rental isint even worth having anymore

SpaceSasqwatch · 16-09-2015 08:20PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Interestingly, Eircom seem to have difficulty bringing decent telephone service to those who need it.

surely the % of people who cant get a phone line is tiny???

fleet_admiral · 16-09-2015 08:22PM

Its still Telecom Eireann to me

Quazzie · 16-09-2015 08:23PM

SpaceSasqwatch wrote: »

surely the % of people who cant get a phone line is tiny???

Read the post you quoted. It clearly states "decent telephone service" and that's not something Eir(com) do.

Niemoj · 16-09-2015 08:23PM

eircom, an icon Irish brand reduced to eir---, what?!

Permabear · 16-09-2015 08:29PM

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SpaceSasqwatch · 16-09-2015 08:31PM

Quazzie wrote: »

Read the post you quoted. It clearly states "decent telephone service" and that's not something Eir(com) do.

which is providing a phone line for a telephone .

Or are you going on about them being an ISP as well?

Alot of the people that give out about the BB arent aware of how ASDL works and expect Eircom to build remote exchanges and the surrounding infrastructure to provide a decent BB service to a small spread out population even though they are not a registered charity.

zom · 16-09-2015 08:35PM

Wonder how many of that 16m went to pockets so called conSULTANS who agreed new logo?

jonnny68 · 16-09-2015 08:39PM

chronic waste of money not quite as bad as spending €80 million on consultants like the toxic quango Irish Water but nonetheless shocking,

jamesbere · 16-09-2015 08:44PM

jonnny68 wrote: »

chronic waste of money not quite as bad as spending €80 million on consultants like the toxic quango Irish Water but nonetheless shocking,

Always someone who brings Irish Water into it.

zweton · 16-09-2015 08:47PM

my god, the add on tv is even worse.:D

legocrazy505 · 16-09-2015 08:47PM

jamesbere wrote: »

Always someone who brings Irish Water into it.

Always one. Somewhere else said Eircom was the worst thing since Irish Water, failed to realise Eircom has existed for far longer. The difference is at least Irish Water have a infrastructure that provides a service for the most part successfully. And should anything happen the state is responsible for them. Eircom have free reign on a wholesale monopoly that the state gave them.

Paramite Pie · 16-09-2015 09:14PM

Apparently Ireland has the 2nd fastest internet speeds in the world, beaten only by South Korea. Who'd have guessed??

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The correct name for a Snickers.

I'm nearly 30 and it's always a snickers to me. You must be nearly dead by now if you can remember that far back 'aul lad.:pac:

riclad · 16-09-2015 09:16PM

Just about anyone can get a phone line,
whether its possible to get a fast broadband connection on it in a rural
area ,is another question .
i forgot ,you can write off almost anything against tax if its a business expense .
The new name is worse than eircom,
its not like eircom is an international company .
everyone in ireland knows what eircom is .

eamonnq · 16-09-2015 09:20PM

eir a chance of decent broadband ?

Ruu · 16-09-2015 09:23PM

Erra lookit!

Eir - who? what?

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