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Eircom Connection fees? - 3G Mobile

  • 04-04-2004 5:50pm
    #1
    visigoth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭


    Apparently if you sign to Eircom Broadband with 3G Mobile they pay your connection fee for you. Anyone know anything more about this?


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  • #2
    talla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭talla


    surely this is anticompetitive?? Don't eircom own 3G??


  • #3
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,212 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    They give you stuff like an Xbox for €99 or an iPod at a discount rate...


  • #4
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Yep, 3g have a promotion alright. Was in their store in Tallaght on Friday and the 99 connection/setup fee is waived when you sign up. Asked how long it was running until and they guy didn't know but thought until the end of April.


  • #5
    Redshift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭Redshift


    Originally posted by talla
    surely this is anticompetitive?? Don't eircom own 3G??

    No they don't, Eircom sold their stores to 3G mobile Ltd which is an independant british comany.


  • #6
    Wrestlemania
    Closed Accounts Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Wrestlemania


    do they have a website.....that would be handy saving dosh like that


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  • #7
    cerbeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭cerbeus


    if 3G are bearing the cost of the connection fee what's in it for them?
    have they a deal with Eircom as a result of buying the stores off them??


  • #8
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Curiosity got the better of me today so I rang Eircom and asked how they can waive the install fee and as a previous poster pointed out, the are giving an xbox for €99. Still a good deal and they are technically not doing the install for free. Sounds a bit odd though, but that's the best I could get from Eircom anyway.


  • #9
    visigoth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭visigoth


    Went into one of the stores yesterday - Apparently if you sign up with Direct Debit in the 3G Stores they refund you the €99 connection fee that you have to pay Eircom, like as a cheque, in the post.
    That's gotta be annoying to people who've signed up over the phone direct with Eircom. (ha ha)


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