An Post Mobile

I'm grateful for my AnPost connection these last 5 days, marginal though it is. My home Broadband went down last Friday at 11.00 am when Eir were doing some unrelated work in the fibre cabinet from which my ordinary wire pair telephone line leaves and 600m and 5 poles later land in my house. I notified my ISP immediately, they didn't flag the fault to Eir till 5.15, bank holiday Friday, so no Internet or phone, Netflix, smart heating or streaming till they came back to work Tuesday. As an emergency measure, I hot spotted my phone, then picked it up on a cheap WiFi extender that had lain in a press this 4 years. It had an ethernet port which took my home heating hub, so service restored, and it also has enough throughput to stream some premier football on the smart TV. I had my phone on a charger stand on a north facing bedroom window board which gave me 2-3 bars reception, the Tecknet repeater in the front hall relayed the feed from its own Wi Fi AP. It worked, and I had plenty of GBs data left on my month to keep everything going. This is the Tecknet with the smart heating bridge plugged in.

I'm assuming I'll get 5 days credit from my broadband ISP, or is that a laughable notion?

The €15 plan is now available for signups, you've a choice of €15 or €18 plans now for new ppl

I've a Vodafone and PM phones and can't say I see much difference. You don't see throttling and I get a decent 50-80 down when I'm in a town. Ping times are longer and they had some issues last summer with their access point name.

If you put some credit on your account for out of bundle calls and services, then it will probably send, with a charge if 0. Unlike freephone, the 5×××× nos. are not regulated, it's a vendor arrangement to charge 0 for 50xxx, not a comreg mandate to mobile operators. Top up by a few euro, then try it. Heres the max costs of the different 5xxxx nos.

50XXX – Free (these numbers are not regulated by ComReg as they are free services)

51XXX – Not exceeding €0.16 (these numbers are not regulated by ComReg as they are less than the regulated threshold*)

53XXX – Not exceeding €0.80

57XXX – €0.80 or above

58XXX – Variable price

59XXX – Variable price

Did you get this resolved?

Yep

Not anything on Vodafone’s end anyway I have everything working fine on VF, must be something going on with An Post.

Maybe they enabled VoLTE (4G calling) because of Vodafone’s 3g being upgraded?

No harm sending off an email to CS to moan, see what responses we get. Usually they're honest with their issues

From support;

Thank you for contacting An Post Mobile customer care. There is currently an issue with mobile data all across the network. This issue has been logged with our IT department. We hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused.

It was never going to gain much traction when all the other mnvo's had much more competitive pricing. Even 3 were offering the "3 Hero" pay as you go plan on and off over the past while that offered much more.

An post mobile have in effect priced themselves out of their own market for new customers while at the same degrading existing customers plans so that the competition are better value.

I imagine it will stop making enough money to make the business worthwhile.

I agree. They need to leverage the Vodafone infrastructure in their plans. Otherwise they are no different than anyone else and slightly worse value that the competition.

Will this filter through to AP I wonder. Some of the increases are outrageous. 3 applying inflation, PLUS 3% year on year. The telcos have looked at the crisis mega profits made by the energy companies, the big retailers like Tesco, and now the hospitality sector, all gouging, and have decided to have a bit of that. Energy is a tiny part if running a mobile network, their running costs have increased marginally, but hey, why waste a crisis when you can line the pockets of shareholders.

I don’t think PM could up the price before providing 5G. After all this increase is meant to be due to investment in their networks.