ComWreck TD Guide.

Could it be that most of our TDs are still wasting their considerable telephone allowance on our most expensive Telco?
Especially for our 166 TDs we’ve produced this user guide:

ComWreck TD Guide:
Telephony User Guide for TDs.

Dear TD,

You have a constituency telephone allowance of up to a maximum of €6348.49 per year or €529 per month.
Are you using taxpayers money prudently or are you just throwing it to the most expensive company?
Are you still with Eircom, a UK registered, overstaffed and inefficient private company, that has done everything possible in the last years to stifle competition and progress in the telephone sector in Ireland and has devastated Irelands broadband development for short-term greed?
It is bad enough that this government is giving over 90% of its telephony related expenditure to Eircom.
It is bad enough that nobody can escape paying Europe’s highest line rental to Eircom.

Don’t stay with Eircom for your telephone calls or Internet connection: It is the most expensive Telco. Change is easy and will save money, taxpayers’ money.

There are now about 30 other Telephone companies out there. It is not easy to figure out which one is the cheapest for you. But one thing is for sure: Every one of them is cheaper than Eircom, most of them are considerably cheaper.

Switching is simple: Ring the telco you want to change to and they’ll arrange the change.
We give you a few hints and all the telcos’ numbers and web sites.

A few hints:

If you have a lot of national calls, Esat/BT's package, where you’ll get all national calls for a flat rate of €25 a month, will be the best for you.

UTV offers the cheapest Internet broadband package at €29 per month.

International calls are considerably cheaper with the likes of Vartec, Zefone, Perlico or OLO.

Example: A 20 minute call to Australia with Eircom costs €17.16, but only €0.80 with Zefone.

If you want to combine cheaper phone bills with an automatic 15% donation to the GAA ( choose the club you want to donate to) Gaelictelecom is your company. They are one of the first to offer single billing, so you won’t have to bother with a separate line rental bill from Eircom any more. Most other companies will offer this from September onwards.

If you can’t get broadband Internet (courtesy of Eircom sweating the assets, Ireland has only a dismal 60% broadband coverage) and have to use dial-up Internet, you might want to make sure you are not caught by a porn dialler scam, on the back of which Eircom screws its customers. One can’t be careful enough nowadays – and you need not have visited a porn site at all to get your modem hijacked.
We have a guide on how to protect yourself against modem hijacking without becoming a computer geek and saving on call costs at the same time.


You can also have a look at the official regulators guide for changing telephone supplier.
It is, for a change, a mildly helpful brochure from ComReg.

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