charging rental

cherrio

Hi guys, just wondering. How can Eircom get away with charging me for the rental of my I-stream (a whopping €139 ex vat / month) and then also charge me rental on the phone line?

I am using only 1 copper line, I know its split at both ends (adsl/voice) but I think €139 a month should surely cover the cost of a splitter / filter?

Is Eircon over charging?

Ardmore

Originally posted by cherrio
Hi guys, just wondering. How can Eircom get away with charging me for the rental of my I-stream (a whopping €139 ex vat / month) and then also charge me rental on the phone line?

You have it the wrong way round. You can have a phone without ADSL, but you can't get ADSL without a phone line, so you pay for a line, and then you pay for any additional services you use the line for (such as phone calls, voice mail, itemized billing, ADSL etc).

I am using only 1 copper line, I know its split at both ends (adsl/voice) but I think €139 a month should surely cover the cost of a splitter / filter?

It does cover the cost of a splitter/filter. It doesn't cover the cost of the line.

Is Eircon over charging?

Is the Pope Polish?!?!? Of course Eircom are over-charging.

But requiring you to pay rental on a phone line before you can avail of services on that line is the way every other phone company delivers ADSL, so, while Eircoms prices are way out of line, their practices aren't.

cherrio

point taken, thank you. Hopefully when March comes my bill will drop in half:)