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There's a lot of talk of changing to Vodafone on here, I was thinking of switching to Sky phone and broadband - how do people rate them? (Can't get UPC)

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Any reason why I didn't get this letter?

I found an email saying "dear ," not even a name. Also it was in spam.

Diego Murphy wrote: »

Ring them and tell them you got a letter. They won't know the difference. I didn't get a letter and rang them and they took my word for it.

I'm actually happy with the service. Have evision also. Where I live Vodafone are actually worse.

Here's the email I got.

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Account number: XXXXXXXXXX

Contract Change
Dear SOARER,

We are writing to inform you of some amendments to your eircom service, which will come into effect on 15th April 2015. These changes will be reflected in bills issued after 15th April 2015.

The changes are summarised as follows:

An increase to the monthly charge for your broadband bundle of between €2 and €5. For TV bundle customers, an increase to the monthly charge for your bundle of between €5 and €8 will apply.
An increase to the call set up fee and call rates for certain calls made outside of your voice plan allowance. These charges will only apply if you make these calls outside of the included minutes of your voice plan.
The Fixed SMS service, which is the ability to send text messages from your home phone and which may be included in your plan, will be withdrawn from 30th June 2015. It will not be possible to send or receive text messages via your home phone after this date. Certain security and alarm monitoring services may be impacted by this change and we would advise you to contact your alarm monitoring supplier for further information. This Fixed SMS service withdrawal does not affect the sending or receiving of text messages on mobile phones.
Please note that not all of these changes will apply to your account. To find out more please visit our website - you will need your plan name which can be found on page 3 of your latest eircom bill in the 'Charges for this period' section.

Your custom is very important to us and we hope that you will continue to enjoy the great value services that eircom offers. However if you wish you can downgrade or withdraw from your contract without penalty for 30 days after the issue date of this email by calling 1800 303 731.

Yours sincerely,


Paul Doyle
Customer Operations Director

My parents have a calls only package with eircom, they don't need broadband and won't use mobiles. Sky aren't doing any packages which include mobiles and Vodafone are more expensive, just wondering is there any other options.

Dave.

seaviewphotos wrote: »

My parents have a calls only package with eircom, they don't need broadband and won't use mobiles. Sky aren't doing any packages which include mobiles and Vodafone are more expensive, just wondering is there any other options.

Dave.

with the mobile look up 48months.ie, a tenner a month, this is my prefered option, i never go near their limits, then i am a very light user

I was told by Eircom if I moved to sky my broadband would be congested whereas with them it does not matter.

Is she bluffing?

Has anyone been able to avail of the 33euro offer after canceling their current contract as you have 30 days to cancel due to the price increase. I was looking to cancel contract then sign up as a new customer, however seemingly I am unable to do so.
Anyone else been in the same situation?

boobar wrote: »

Cancelled Eircom today...

Took the plunge went with Vodafone broadband only deal for €35 per month.

I hope it works out ok as really need the broadband

Watch out for their 300GB fair usage policy.

300gb is for the hardcore users! :pac:

And depending on the Eircom service, I'm sure there is congestion... Or a high enough contention ratio. I know last year there was a 48:1 contention ratio on the ngb regular service. But if it's fibre, it will be fast enough to not notice! 24:1 on their ultimate service as of last year, I believe. (But it may have changed since)


I saw some posts in this thread about people inquiring about 4g internet services and I thought I'd throw in my 2c since I can't get any fixed line broadband service living 17km from the GPO and have a 4g broadband(midband) setup...

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Hi.
I'm in the process of cancelling eircom.
I looks like 4 g is my next best option given that eircom have no date for fixing my landline after 5 weeks of it being down. So can anyone help with a few queries.
-) what is the highest best gb allowance from vodafone4 g
-) what is the best home modem for 4 g that will allow wireless and wired home router. Basically I'm going to replace the eircom router with hopefully my 4 g router

I'd strongly suggest getting a fixed service if you can in any way shape or form over 3g/4g and use 3g/4g as a last resort well (Satellite internet would be last resort but don't even bother)

4g mobile broadband services are totally location dependent, so each network might perform differently in your area. So if you're near a mast or have perfectly good phone signal, you should be ok (Unless you're n the sticks you will be fine)

Out of all the mobile 4g services, Vodafone offer the worst data allowance. 7.5GB for €20 a month! (40 times less than their fixed bb service) Which is not ideal unless you're a super light user. 02 are pretty dismal too (Although 3 taking them over might help) and Meteor and Three offer the best 4g mobile broadband with reasonable data.

Depends how many users you want on your network and what you want to use you're network for. Three and Meteor offer sim card enabled routers so you just put the sim in the router and you have internet services just like you're eircom router would do

http://www.three.ie/explore/4G/
http://www.three.ie/shop/broadband/huawei-b593s/

and

https://store.meteor.ie/mobile-broadband-devices/bill-pay/Huawei-B593

For me meteor is better so I opted for them and I have internet good enough like any normal fixed service. 50GB a month for €20

Speedtest - http://i.imgur.com/XFsJ5cT.png

The slightly complicated setup I have at the minute is - External antenna > Huawei b593s (4g sim router) > ethernet cable > Main router and that's it.

You can have a regular 4g wired/wifi setup by simply just getting the 4g router and an broadband sim. That would replace your Eircom router and do the same job.

Don't mean to overload you with too much info but it might clear up any questions you might have


tl;drThree and meteor offer 4g routers and 30-60gb of data for 20-35 quid a month that work just as good as normal broadband.. almost

-=al=- wrote: »

300gb is for the hardcore users! :pac:

And depending on the Eircom service, I'm sure there is congestion... Or a high enough contention ratio. I know last year there was a 48:1 contention ratio on the ngb regular service. But if it's fibre, it will be fast enough to not notice! 24:1 on their ultimate service as of last year, I believe. (But it may have changed since)


I saw some posts in this thread about people inquiring about 4g internet services and I thought I'd throw in my 2c since I can't get any fixed line broadband service living 17km from the GPO and have a 4g broadband(midband)

I'd strongly suggest getting a fixed service if you can in any way shape or form over 3g/4g and use 3g/4g as a last resort well (Satellite internet would be last resort but don't even bother)

4g mobile broadband services are totally location dependent, so each network might perform differently in your area. So if you're near a mast or have perfectly good phone signal, you should be ok (Unless you're n the sticks you will be fine)

Out of all the mobile 4g services, Vodafone offer the worst data allowance. 7.5GB for €20 a month! (40 times less than their fixed bb service) Which is not ideal unless you're a super light user. 02 are pretty dismal too (Although 3 taking them over might help) and Meteor and Three offer the best 4g mobile broadband with reasonable data.

Depends how many users you want on your network and what you want to use you're network for. Three and Meteor offer sim card enabled routers so you just put the sim in the router and you have internet services just like you're eircom router would do

http://www.three.ie/explore/4G/
http://www.three.ie/shop/broadband/huawei-b593s/

and

https://store.meteor.ie/mobile-broadband-devices/bill-pay/Huawei-B593

For me meteor is better so I opted for them and I have internet good enough like any normal fixed service. 50GB a month for €20

Speedtest - http://i.imgur.com/XFsJ5cT.png

The slightly complicated setup I have at the minute is - External antenna > Huawei b593s (4g sim router) > ethernet cable > Main router and that's it.

You can have a regular 4g wired/wifi setup by simply just getting the 4g router and an broadband sim. That would replace your Eircom router and do the same job.

Don't mean to overload you with too much info but it might clear up any questions you might have


tl;drThree and meteor offer 4g routers and 30-60gb of data for 20-35 quid a month that work just as good as normal broadband.. almost

I just cancelled my phone and broadband with Eircom, I have more or less decided to go with Tesco mobile for the phone, Can't make up my mind about wifi, What's your opinion on Tesco broadband.

So after 6 months of hell with Eirc0n I have just cancelled today and gone back to my previous provider, Digiweb. As I am slightly out in the sticks the fastest BB I can get over phone is 4MB, compared to the 30MB Metro from Digiweb. The only reason I moved to Eirc0n was because there is a 100GB limit with Digiweb and Eirc0n had unlimited.

Digiweb should be up and running by the time I get home this evening, they also announced that they will be increasing speeds accross some services in the near future so hopefully the cap gets increased too. Oh and the 1st 3 months with Digiweb are €29.99 then €44.99 thereafter compared to the €33 per month for 6 months with the other crowd going up to €48 after.

I was with Digiweb for over 4 years and the service was excellent, regular speeds of 25mb down and 1mb up and very few outages. Compared to the stuttering 4mb (if I was lucky) down and 240k up I was getting, and the fact they lied to me about Fibre being available in my area and then telling me it won't be availalable until Q4 this year.....run away!!!!!

its the bloody line rental that makes eircom so expensive

btw - is line rental the same across the board??