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Eircom to increase prices

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    #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Call rounding, UP!

    Sneaky buggers. Not that it bothers me as I ditched them years ago.


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    Patrickof
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Patrickof


    Is this technically not theft? After all, they clearly have the ability to bill to the nearest second, so by rounding up to the nearest (higher) minute by choice they are effectively knowingly charging you for something that you haven't used?

    Ahem, but shouldn't the regulator slap this one down?

    What if petrol pumps just started "rounding up" to the nearest litre??????


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Didn't they use to round up to nearest minute or 3 minutes when it was all electromechanical? No excuse not to have per second billing since exchanges went Digital circa 1985. This is a backward leap to the 1960s by a desperate company.

    What next? Operator connect rate charge for any STD calls, i.e. calls outside your own 0x area? This will accelerate the loss of lines to Mobile services.


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    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Was there not legislation brought in, in 2006/7 after eircom's over billing scandal see here: http://www.rte.ie/business/2004/0803/eircom.html

    Something wrong with this move.


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    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    Definitely seems like pure desperation.
    Really hope comreg nip this in the bud.


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    flutered
    Registered Users Posts: 6,686 ✭✭✭flutered


    i fled this particular nest long ago, but they had me bent over and did not use lube, never again


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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    They have to or they're going bust.

    Not like they're not probably going bust anyway...


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    rob808
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭rob808


    banquo wrote: »
    They have to or they're going bust.

    Not like they're not probably going bust anyway...
    There going to go bust after these hikes even im think of leaving them now.


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