Eir GoMo - €9.99/month SIM only (unlimited calls, texts and 80GB data, 10Gb EU Roam

Lissavane

Bluefoam wrote: »

iPhone users will need a special premium tarrif from Vodafone... It will offer 500mb/sec download 100 monthly minutes, international calls charged at a premium rate and walled garden internet that restricts use to Apple approved sites. However thaeywill provide you with a titanium identify card that lets people know that you own an iPhone, in case they didn't realise that in the first place.

Am I missing something here? What's Vodafone got to do with this?

mydiscworld

You are charged per calendar month, not the day you sign up?

So if you sign up on Oct 31, you pay 9.99 for just 1 day? That's rough!

But if you sign up today and choose your change date as Nov 1 then you avoid the Oct fee.

I'm on the 25euro VM 30 day contract, so need to give them my month notice anyway

The high horse brigade

Lissavane wrote: »

Am I missing something here? What's Vodafone got to do with this?

Whoosh!

JTMan

The new French owner of Eir operates a similar popular 9.99 EUR package in France via Free Mobile. The Free Mobile package in France was highly popular. The Free Mobile website might give a clue as to where Eir are going with GoMo.

Bluefoam

Lissavane wrote: »

Am I missing something here? What's Vodafone got to do with this?

iPhone users wouldn't be seen on a lesser brand of network. Vodafone is the best, because they are the most expensive.

Jeff2

Lissavane wrote: »

Am I missing something here? What's Vodafone got to do with this?

They're joking.

zeebre12

Lissavane wrote: »

I've got a dual sim unlocked phone. Highly recommended.

I don't get this. What is a dual sim unlocked phone? How will this work with GoMo?

gooner99

I had a eir/meteor payg mobile data sim in a mobile router, 50gb 30 day for €30. Most months the 50gb covered us. A few weeks ago I moved to an Eir payg phone sim in the router when they stated offering fair usage all you can eat data for €20 a month. I guess this new gomo.ie could work very well for me in the router as it should give the same speeds as they use the Eir network. Anyone know yet if the Eir Apn works with the Gomo.ie sim in a router?

biggebruv

Bluefoam wrote: »

iPhone users wouldn't be seen on a lesser brand of network. Vodafone is the best, because they are the most expensive.

Did somebody piss in your cornflakes this morning lol are we still doing that whole iPhone users are the elite jokes a smartphone is a smartphone everyone has there preferences they are all good nowadays

mydiscworld

So is the consensus that this isn't €9.99 for your lifetime, but rather €9.99 per contract lifetime, which is 30 days rolling? Very misleading advertising if so!

uchimata83

mydiscworld wrote: »

You are charged per calendar month, not the day you sign up?

So if you sign up on Oct 31, you pay 9.99 for just 1 day? That's rough!

But if you sign up today and choose your change date as Nov 1 then you avoid the Oct fee.

I'm on the 25euro VM 30 day contract, so need to give them my month notice anyway

You'll be out into a billing cycle, today it's likely to be the 25th of every month.

If you're on a 30 day contract you don't have to give a months notice. You paid for a month in advance in the beginning so you will be due a portion of that back to you (as long as you've been on the contract more than 30 days)

biggebruv

Signed up anyways will see how goes Friday was the nearest day for delivery

Bluefoam

biggebruv wrote: »

Did somebody piss in your cornflakes this morning lol are we still doing that whole iPhone users are the elite jokes a smartphone is a smartphone everyone has there preferences they are all good nowadays

*their

uchimata83

gooner99 wrote: »

I had a eir/meteor payg mobile data sim in a mobile router, 50gb 30 day for €30. Most months the 50gb covered us. A few weeks ago I moved to an Eir payg phone sim in the router when they stated offering fair usage all you can eat data for €20 a month. I guess this new gomo.ie could work very well for me in the router as it should give the same speeds as they use the Eir network. Anyone know yet if the Eir Apn works with the Gomo.ie sim in a router?

Probably - was the same with meteor/eir so I can't see them being any different

Tusky

If you signup for this and port your number, do you need to tell your previous provider that you're moving? Assuming you're on a rolling 30 day contract.

The high horse brigade

Tusky wrote: »

If you signup for this and port your number, do you need to tell your previous provider that you're moving? Assuming you're on a rolling 30 day contract.

No, I've changed many times, it's done by verifying an SMS

Ush1

Tusky wrote: »

If you signup for this and port your number, do you need to tell your previous provider that you're moving? Assuming you're on a rolling 30 day contract.

I might be wrong but I think when the port of the number happens you pay the balance on the last bill and it closes automatically.

Tusky

Tusky wrote: »

If you signup for this and port your number, do you need to tell your previous provider that you're moving? Assuming you're on a rolling 30 day contract.

You do indeed.

You need to give 30 days notice on those rolling contracts.

The high horse brigade

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You do indeed.

You need to give 30 days notice on those rolling contracts.

Rolling contacts are paid in advance so you can just leave

DesperateDan

Without reading this whole thread, I always was told to stay away from MVNO networks (I live really in the middle of nowhere, I think Vodafone is the only usable network in about a 3km radius of the house). This would be a bad idea for me right?

Hibernicis

Lissavane wrote: »

I read it as a 30 day rolling contract. Just signed up but won't port number until tried and tested.

Great idea thanks. I’m doing exactly the same. Sign-up complete.

Bye Bye Vodafone. It’s been nice knowing you these last 25 years..... ever since my eircell 088

The high horse brigade

DesperateDan wrote: »

Without reading this whole thread, I always was told to stay away from MVNO networks (I live really in the middle of nowhere, I think Vodafone is the only usable network in about a 3km radius of the house). This would be a bad idea for me right?

It's going to have the same coverage as Eir/Meteor

Lissavane

zeebre12 wrote: »

I don't get this. What is a dual sim unlocked phone? How will this work with GoMo?

It's a phone that will use 2 sim cards simultaneously and is not locked to any particular network. In general, you need to buy them directly from manufacturer or retailer rather than from a telecom service provider. Google it.

TheDriver

DesperateDan wrote: »

Without reading this whole thread, I always was told to stay away from MVNO networks (I live really in the middle of nowhere, I think Vodafone is the only usable network in about a 3km radius of the house). This would be a bad idea for me right?

MVNO are usually on old o2 network which is pure junk. Eir used to be MVNO on meteor.

Shn99

Tempting but ill pass, lasted with Eir for 2 weeks before moving to 3 due to non existent phone and customer service and im fairly happy with them. Hopefully this causes other telecom operators to reduce prices

Basq

Only moved to Three again from Vodafone earlier this year.. but this was too good to pass up!

Aquos76

Mr.S wrote: »

Customer Service might be the area that suffers most.

Dont think you can actually get worse than Eir customer care so that wont be an issue for me:D

listermint

Aquos76 wrote: »

Dont think you can actually get worse than Eir customer care so that wont be an issue for me:D

Personally never had a problem with Eir mobile customer service. Never . Needed to phone then about 3 times in 10 years and not once an issue.

deisedude

I bought my current phone with Vodafone. I'm assuming I have to get that unlocked for the SIM to work

Eire Go Brach

Customer service is kinda irrelevant as it’s a sim only plan. If you not happy move on. Technically you probably have to give 30 day notice.
But Just sign up to another network and your done. New operator will cancel old one. Might be down a few quid as you did not give notice. But that should be it.

I have been sim only surfing for years.

Luckylow10

Does anyone know when the 14 day cooling off period starts? From order date? Or when you activate the SIM card?

Also, there is 9.99 activation fee is this In addition to the 9.99 bill payment that will happen on the 1st of the month?

How would that work- I buy sim today, and pay the 9.99 activation fee, then another 9.99 on the 1st November (for the month ahead) PLUS any usage that occurred from when I bought sim to 1st November?

SleetAndSnow

Saying total monthly cost 19.98 when I go to checkout. Is it gone? Or is that just the first month including activation because it says total activation cost 19.98 aswell.

Bluefoam

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Saying total monthly cost 19.98 when I go to checkout. Is it gone?

Did you add two Sims to your cart?

SleetAndSnow

Bluefoam wrote: »

Did you add two Sims to your cart?

I'm an idiot! Thanks!

Aquos76

Luckylow10 wrote: »

Does anyone know when the 14 day cooling off period starts? From order date? Or when you activate the SIM card?

Also, there is 9.99 activation fee is this In addition to the 9.99 bill payment that will happen on the 1st of the month?

How would that work- I buy sim today, and pay the 9.99 activation fee, then another 9.99 on the 1st November (for the month ahead) PLUS any usage that occurred from when I bought sim to 1st November?

I assume you only start to get charged when the sim registers on their network, id be very surprised if its billed from the start of the month, Eir and Meteor always had 4 billing cycles in the month and you just got allocated the nearest billing date after you join the network and just pay the extra on a pro rata basis. I've requested a porting date of this Friday, so I guess ill see then.

Suckit

DesperateDan wrote: »

Without reading this whole thread, I always was told to stay away from MVNO networks (I live really in the middle of nowhere, I think Vodafone is the only usable network in about a 3km radius of the house). This would be a bad idea for me right?

No real way of knowing yet what they will be like. You could wait and see how others are getting on with them, I would guess the offer will be repackaged or extended, but the same offer. Or you could check their sister networks that are owned by the same owner. Freemobile.fr, iliad.it and online.net is their cloud computing company for reviews to check them.


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I was signing up for this earlier, but didn't go further than step two. I got the confirmation text to change over at the end of the month, does anybody know if that may still happen as I 'started the ball rolling' so to speak, or unlikely to do anything?

Luckylow10

Aquos76 wrote: »

I assume you only start to get charged when the sim registers on their network, id be very surprised if its billed from the start of the month, Eir and Meteor always had 4 billing cycles in the month and you just got allocated the nearest billing date after you join the network and just pay the extra on a pro rata basis. I've requested a porting date of this Friday, so I guess ill see then.

I’m pretty sure there is only 1 billing date and that’s the 1st of the month regardless of when u activate the card. I’m just wondering what the total initial
Outlay (first mnth or so) will be and I’m thinking it could be 9.99 act fee+ 9.99 mnth advance + unbilled usage for previous mnth.

NabyLadistheman

My sim has been dispatched for any of you worried about receiving before number ports

go4it

Usage outside of your inclusive allowances will be charged as follows:

Voicemail – Free
Additional Minutes – 30c/Min
SMS – 15c per SMS


Most of people don't know how much it's the network's cost to a call from one mobile network to another, within Ireland - MTR: 0.33 euro cents/min ( 0.0033 euro/min )
To call a landline from a mobile FTR : 0.079 euro cents ( 0.00079 euro/min )
For calls terminated within your network : virtual zero costs, since voice is actually data packets through your wires/wave

..just in case you're wondering why all network charge 30c/min outside 'the bundle' : because they can, and nobody stops them til next year , when EU will cap the tariffs...

uchimata83

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

Customer service is kinda irrelevant as it’s a sim only plan. If you not happy move on. Technically you probably have to give 30 day notice.
But Just sign up to another network and your done. New operator will cancel old one. Might be down a few quid as you did not give notice. But that should be it.

I have been sim only surfing for years.

If you sign an 18 month contract, at the end of your contract, do you have to give 18 months notice? No. You are out of contract, same with the 30 day contract after 1 month.
You don't have to give any notice

patrickmrogan

Is eir/meteor coverage about equal to tesco/48?

Aquos76

Luckylow10 wrote: »

I’m pretty sure there is only 1 billing date and that’s the 1st of the month regardless of when u activate the card. I’m just wondering what the total initial
Outlay (first mnth or so) will be and I’m thinking it could be 9.99 act fee+ 9.99 mnth advance + unbilled usage for previous mnth.

I honestly would be very surprised if this is the case, we'll soon see I guess

killbillvol2

Mr.S wrote: »

Nice, this will for sure cause some chaos in the mobile operator space in Ireland - €10 will likely become the new €20.

Unless you roam frequently outside of the EU, there is no reason to not go with this MVNO.

There's a very good reason I won't be going for it - Eir coverage is pretty much non-existent where I need it most. Where I did have coverage call quality was often poor. People switching from Vodafone should hold off on porting their number until they're sure they can actually use their phone.

uchimata83

killbillvol2 wrote: »

There's a very good reason I won't be going for it - Eir coverage is pretty much non-existent where I need it most. Where I did have coverage call quality was often poor. People switching from Vodafone should hold off on porting their number until they're sure they can actually use their phone.

I think there's no arguing that Vodafone have the best coverage, but I think for the price and about 80% of people it's worth a punt

Lissavane

go4it wrote: »

Usage outside of your inclusive allowances will be charged as follows:

Voicemail – Free
Additional Minutes – 30c/Min
SMS – 15c per SMS


Most of people don't know how much it's the network's cost to a call from one mobile network to another, within Ireland - MTR: 0.33 euro cents/min ( 0.0033 euro/min )
To call a landline from a mobile FTR : 0.079 euro cents ( 0.00079 euro/min )
For calls terminated within your network : virtual zero costs, since voice is actually data packets through your wires/wave

..just in case you're wondering why all network charge 30c/min outside 'the bundle' : because they can, and nobody stops them til next year , when EU will cap the tariffs...

My reading is that this Gomo offer gives free calls and texts to all Irish mobiles and landlines, regardless of network, up to reasonable use limits.

Luckylow10

Aquos76 wrote: »

I honestly would be very surprised if this is the case, we'll soon see I guess

I think I answered my own question, their Help & Support page confirms that ur first bill is your mnthly plan plus previous usage.

Sounds expensive. I think I’ll order pay the initial fee and wait to activate on 1st nov.

patrickmrogan

if I set port date as 1st Nov does that mean I'll only get charged for november month, not october too?

IrishStuff09

Suarezistheman wrote: »

My sim has been dispatched for any of you worried about receiving before number ports

Same here! Though I opted to get a new number before I commit, will finally get to use my phone's dual SIM for a little while

Luckylow10

patrickmrogan wrote: »

if I set port date as 1st Nov does that mean I'll only get charged for november month, not october too?

That’s my belief, u pay the initial 9.99 then on The 1st u pay ur normal 9.99 plan for the month in advance.

I have emailed them looking for confirmation on this.

Phoenix108

Does anyone know if the unlimited calls include. With eir I get unlimited landline aswell as mobile calls to any network.