The Eircell and Digifone GPRS Offerings

The Corinthian

Which is better/fairer in your opinion? Eircell or Digifone?

MiCr0

as yet no pricing for gprs from eircell so its hard to tell
i guess it will be something along the same lines as jodafone in uk and dodgefone here.

i am NOT impressed with the terminals though
the motorola's are very annoying
the siemans is good though(ish)
and the nokia is useable

The Corinthian

Originally posted by MiCr0
as yet no pricing for gprs from eircell so its hard to tell
i guess it will be something along the same lines as jodafone in uk and dodgefone here.

"There are two GPRS price plans - GPRS 5 for which the monthly rental fee is €5, and price per MB is €5, and GPRS 20 for which the monthly rental fee is €20, and price per MB is €2."
http://www.eircell.ie/1_about_us/pressreleases/current/080102.htm

i am NOT impressed with the terminals though
the motorola's are very annoying
the siemans is good though(ish)
and the nokia is useable

Arn't you a wee bit partisan on this subject Micr0? :rolleyes:

MiCr0

not at all
i have to use the motorola phones - they drive me insane
each and every day

seamus

Motorola phones rock - they are ickle unix boxes!

I think it's waaay to early to be releasing GPRS services, especially in Ireland, corporate customers ok, but to 'standard' customers, no way. No-one would want it/afford it (except for a few 6th years in Blackrock college )

MiCr0

i don't think the cost is too bad
wap would be the same price as a text message

pookster

Digifone,

The easiest way to compare them is Eircells GPRS 5 and 20 along with Digifones GPRS 5 and 20. You pay the same for both of them I believe, but with Digifone they give you 5 or 20 Meg for free in the package. With Eircell, you get zero free.

The Corinthian

In the interests of stirring some s**t in this debate, I did a wee analysis of the two Eircell GPRS plans and compared them against their (almost) equivalent Digifone plans. I came up with the following two comparisons:




So on a matter of cost at least, it does all appear to be a bit of a no-brainer in that Digifone’s offering is much cheaper. Comments?

(The cost axis looks as if it starts with a '1' thus giving false results - this is just Euro symbol trouble).

MiCr0

bugger!

having said that i reckon eircell would be very foolish not to offer some free traffic (which they prob won't -- double bugger)

//M

MiCr0

to any one on eircell and interested in gprs:
email cust support and ask where your free meg's is