Broadband switch deals

It works to do a transfer, you need to give the new provider your siro/eir/whoever account number. It'll be in a similar place as your customer account number on your bill probably.

That's on my sky bill for example, the middle one is what i used to switch to them from Vodafone siro. SISK i think it starts with and numbers.

Currently with Pure, just entered last 30 days of my minimum term. Their retention offer was new 18 month contract with 6 months at €35 and remainder at €50.

I won't be staying, I'll likely go with Sky again as their €30pm offer is best I can find currently. The perpetual game of musical chairs because Telco's allocate more to new customer offers than to retention is bloody exhausting. Same with other utility providers too TBF. Customers have to stay on top of their offer terms & periods.

Thank feck for Google calendar and task reminders 😉

If they'd offered me that? I'd have happily stayed and I told them as much. Their retention offer to me was as I mentioned, 18mths with 6 at €35 & 12 at €50. I'm not going to bother following up, better deals out there without having to chase them.

thanks for above!

VF offer 30 for first 6 months and 40 for the next 6 for up to 500mb.

interestingly they give a free upgrade to 1gb.

i think this is where i will be going.

I'm in my third renewal year with them @35pm, 35pm and now 30pm. Never had any increase applied.

Had a look on switcher.ie and am not clear why Eir only provides 1gb 24 month contract in area. Looking at options it appears Virgin Media at €35pm for 12 months plus €100 oneforall voucher seems to be the best deal.

Thanks for clarification. I've just spoken to Virgin Media rep and advised yes to phone but at an additional cost of €3 pm

Always found them OK over last 2 years. Only downtime related to NBI fibre damage/fault. They had billing issue over last few months which were annoying but ultimately resolved. Didn't like the 16% inflation based increase on my €35pm payment in April (calc based on 7.6% increase on prediscounted €75pm rate which was a bit sneaky as the increase was not discounted accordingly) but these increases it seems to apply to multiple providers

Sorry for multiple posts but am being hard sold benefits of 1gb over 500mb service for better latency etc. Have people who upgraded to 1gb notice any appreciable improvement in quality of service? Is it worth €10pm for a normal household?

Your mileage may vary but I spent a year and a half with vodafone. First six months were perfect in every way, then I got a call offering to add tv to my fibre and phone (500mb) package for an extra fiver a month on a new 12 month contract (so €45 a month for tv, fibre and phone). They didn't install the tv for 2 months and didn't activate it for another 5 or 6 and then for the entirely of the new contract they messed up my bill every single month without fail resulting in my spending at least 30 minutes on the phone every month, most times having to send my copy of my contract to them and them promising it would never happen again. As soon as my new 12 month contract was up at the end of March I left them and, I'm not joking, I still have to contact them every month because I keep getting texts and emails about my latest bill.

Having said that, if I had to choose between vodafone and eir as the only providers available, I'd still choose vodafone but those two are the bottom of the barrel for me.