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Disconnection / Termination charges

  • 19-06-2004 5:21pm
    #1
    refused
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    'The Process of Choosing Irish BB', aka
    'The Lesser of Four / Five Evils'
    That was going to be the Subject, but it would have just been truncated.

    I'm trying to find a reasonable BB provider, 512 speed, reasonable download cap and reliable - although the last point could be tricky.
    I'm quite sure I won't be staying around long enough to run out the 12month contract that is common place among providers so termination charges will affect my discussion. I have drawn up the following table that I have been working on to help me, but some I can't find some information. So if you know the values marked with a ? can you let me know. Also, information on reliability would be good, from the posts I've been reading Eircom seem to be the most reliable - but expensive and a low cap.
    Eircom	= Home Plus
IOL	= Broadband Plus
UTV	= Clicksilver Plus
Digiweb	= Homejet
NS	= Origin Plus

		Eircom	IOL	UTV	Digiweb	NS
Contract	12	12	12	12	2
Break contract	?	?	€85	€100	€85
Pay re. Months	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Speed		512	512	512	512	512
Cap		8	16	16	10	16
Monthly		€54.45	€47	€45	€39	€45
Free		Sept	4 Mths	4 Mths	3 Mths	NA
Connection fee	free	€80	€99	free	€81.81

    TIA

    -aland-


Comments

  • #2
    refused
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭refused


    I realise some of the terms I used in the table are not instantly obvious.

    'Break contract' - Amount of money you have to pay if you break the contract before 12 months.
    'Pay re. Months' - If you have to pay for the remaining months in the contract.
    'Free' - If they are offering the 'free trial' that Eircom are offering these days.
    'Connection fee' - Well this is obvious, but the UTV connection fee is carefully written in legalprint (ie - small print), and I almost missed it in my researching.

    Peace


  • #3
    refused
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭refused


    No one has anything to say?
    I'm sorry if this has already been covered before in another thread and that's why no one is replying. I couldn't find anything last night but I'll go looking again.

    Peace


  • #4
    Ripwave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Ripwave


    Originally posted by refused
    'Free' - If they are offering the 'free trial' that Eircom are offering these days.
    Eircom aren't offering a free trial - eircom are offering free broadband until August 31st. If you sign up today, you'll be lucky to get 2 months free.

    IOL and UTV are offering a free trial - but the 12 months contract doesn't start until after the 3 month free trial, so if you signed up today, and wanted to quit at the end of December, for example, you'd still have 9 months of your 12 month contract still to pay for.


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