ADSL triallists

Mountjoy Mugger

Have any of you noticed on your most recent phone bill, a little mention of your ADSL connection???

Me wonders if this is how they're going to collect, and if it is, is it legal!?

bricks

But so far its for 0.00 Eur.
Are you saying that yours in non-zero?

jd

Originally posted by Mountjoy Mugger
Have any of you noticed on your most recent phone bill, a little mention of your ADSL connection???

Me wonders if this is how they're going to collect, and if it is, is it legal!?

If its for €0.00, I'd expect to see it at this stage..
I'd imagine they will collect through the regular telephone bill, rather than an eircomnet bill, as there is provisioning done at exchange level
jd

Mountjoy Mugger

Originally posted by jd

I'd imagine they will collect through the regular telephone bill, rather than an eircom.net bill

But why on earth should they be able to? If I remember correctly, Eircom.net was a totally separate company (allegedly) with a separate billing method to prove the point.

Maybe because they (Eircom.net) made such an ar$e of this, they switched back to the old reliable method of tagging it on to the phone bill. I still question the legality of this.. Remember the dispute that the ODTR and Eircom had over charging a ridiculous wholesale price? Eircom as a telecoms providor seemed to be making the point that in no way were they connected to i-Stream.

Oh, will a portion of the bill go directly to "i-Stream Ltd."?

BTW, nothing has been charged yet - just the blank €0.00

jd

Originally posted by Mountjoy Mugger


But why on earth should they be able to? If I remember correctly, Eircom.net was a totally separate company (allegedly) with a separate billing method to prove the point.

Maybe because they (Eircom.net) made such an ar$e of this, they switched back to the old reliable method of tagging it on to the phone bill. I still question the legality of this.. Remember the dispute that the ODTR and Eircom had over charging a ridiculous wholesale price? Eircom as a telecoms providor seemed to be making the point that in no way were they connected to i-Stream.

Oh, will a portion of the bill go directly to "i-Stream Ltd."?

BTW, nothing has been charged yet - just the blank €0.00

My umderstanding is that eircom retail-not eircomnet will be selling the product-with eircomnet selling eircom retail the internet part of the service..

Frank Grimes

It's an Eircom (phone co.) product, so it would make sense that they'd charge via the phonebill.

infomat

Originally posted by Mountjoy Mugger


But why on earth should they be able to? If I remember correctly, Eircom.net was a totally separate company (allegedly) with a separate billing method to prove the point.

BTW, nothing has been charged yet - just the blank €0.00

Eircom (the section which owns the telephone lines) are responsible for operating ADSL not their ISP. You don't really think that they are going to do something that is not legal, do you?

However, I am beginning to wonder how this is going to work ... will it be necessary to organise two contracts one with Eircom and one with Eircom.net?

viking

I have my ADSL connection mentioned on the phone bill as well, its for €0.00 and it says its from 13 Apr 02 to 12 Jun 02.

Does this mean that if ADSL is offically launched in say the next two weeks, then I don't have to pay anything until 13 Jun onwards? A few more weeks free ADSL maybe?

viking

Mountjoy Mugger

Originally posted by infomat

You don't really think that they are going to do something that is not legal, do you?

Not if the Communications Bill is enacted, I don't...