Eircom, what a bunch of shitkicking shitehawks
My rage from yesterday has not dissipated. I have been unable to punch the snout off any Fianna Fail members.
Then I saw an article in the Irish Times about how Eircom have bent over and taken one straight up the chocolate highway from IRMA. I know the story is a couple of weeks old but it annoyed me this morning. As did the bird singing outside the window from first light. As did the way some of the coffee in the coffee pot bubbled as I poured the hot water in. As did the air. It’s an all encompassing rage this one.
So it’s worth checking out this site because Eircom broadband users will find sites blocked simply because IRMA lobbied hard enough. What’s to stop any other private interest group doing exactly the same with sites they don’t like?
The problem for many people is that they don’t have any choice in their broadband provider. Eircom is the only company they can get access from. But this is not about file sharing, really. It’s about how shit Eircom is. No harm in mentioning what a pack of utter pussies they are though.
When you see them advertising their ’super fast’ broadband and realise they’re just offering 3mb connections you know you’re dealing with a bunch of spackers.
I’ve got 20mb with UPC. That awful, awful cunt Manuel was on Twitter yesterday singing the praises of his 50mb connection yesterday.
Now, I know he’s in the unholy north and everything but … 50mb. And Eircom’s superfast offering is 3mb. Useless fucking twats.
And every couple of weeks I get a phone call from Eircom sales people asking me how my phone line is and do I want any bundles.
“My phone is obviously fine as you’ve rung me on it, Mr/Ms Foreign Accent, but I have asked you about 50 times never, ever to call me. Even if you have the most important piece of news ever, even if it would save my fucking life don’t fucking call me. And still you call”.
“Sorry, we will make a note of it”.
And still they call. Trying to tempt me to their fantastic bundle with 3mb superfast broadband. It’s about as tempting as eating the shite out of a leper’s arse.
I have some friends who work for Eircom though. My God, they are among the worst people I know. Feckless, indolent miscreants, the lot of them. Good drinkers though, I’ll give them that.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Amen to that, brother. I’m stuck with the cunts who offer appalling service, a radical drop in speed after 5pm (sorry, but increased traffic isn’t an excuse), and now this bullshit as well. They are a fucking awful, awful excuse of a company.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Blackout Ireland is blocked..hehe
Grandad did a great post last week about cold calls from Eircom..
Their ads annoy the fuck out of me though as they are utter ,utter,lies..
As for the image of that cunt surfing the net in his helicopter..dont get me started.What calms me down is the fact that i never EVER have to deal with them again..
March 4th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Oh yeah, the radio ads.
“Let’s go to the moon, surf until noon…” – CUNTS.
Good read about how awesome Eircom 3mb broadband is here – http://www.irishurls.com/blog/2009/02/16/so-long-eircom-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
You’ve got no alternative, Pete?
March 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
People should group together and lobby for billpay.ie or whatever the fuck it’s called to be blocked.
“Hello Pigeons, meeow”
March 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
My friend got a house call from an eircom salesman who went ahead and signed him up without having permission and faked my friend’s signature. When my friend called eircom and told them he was going to report them to the Garda for fraud, they said the guy in question had left and was a contractor not an employee. They refunded the first months fee he was charged. They should be in court, the cunts.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I’d imagine It’s an investment issue.
To get top whack broadband you need the infrastructure in place.
If Eircom are taking your money and investing it in improving cabling and the like a high speed future maybe on the horizon
If on the other hand it’s going to provide the bubbly at the shareholders meeting…..
March 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
i’ve got 3 mobile broadband. and it’s utter shit.
3MB apparently means about 500k.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Irish Broadband here, fits and starts. Pain in the hoop. As for this censorship issue, the Blackout site is right. It is outrageous, with the setting of a very dangerous precedent. This isn’t China.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Come on guys – where is your patriotism? It has “Eir” in the name, do you have no loyalty to the brave men of 1798?
March 4th, 2009 at 11:09 am
not only an awful cunt but a massive one at that too
broadband envy…….it’s the new penis envy……
I shouldn’t worry what with the way The Cousin is downloading I fully expect to be arrested and taken away to the Lars Ulrich prison for illegal downloaders. I don’t know wha he’s been downloading but there really couldn’t be anything left.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Eircom will never upgrade their network because it suits them to leave it as is,there is no country wide alternative at the moment.Why would they bother,most of their elderly customers stay loyal to them for the only reason that they are afraid of changing to a new company incase they lose service or get ripped off..
The censorship issue is shameful,IRMA should have no baring on the ISP sector..they like Eircom have a monopoly and are unwilling to reinvest revenue back into their own sector.
Potato Republic indeed.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Surely the crap service is a totally different issue from this supposed “censorship”? Have people a right to break the law online? Is it any more of an infringement of “rights” than interfering with people who want to download child pornography?
March 4th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Now you’ve done it, you’ve set me off completely…
Once upon a time there were all these cable TV operators in Dublin. They were all eventually amalgamated/merged/bought and became one company. The one company was bought by Telecom Eireann because telephony was some day coming down the cable network. Telecom Eireann sat on their cable co. business and refused to develop it. The internet was bubbling away and a host of dial-up providers including TE got into the business which was inordinately costly and slooooow. It was the great ’screw the punter’ time in telecoms, despite “competition”, changing TE to Eircom, forcing it to divest itself of its cable TV interests (to NTL), and privatising the company which set it up nicely for asset stripping. Many of these changes were initially presided over by one Raphael Burke TD.
The attitude of every telcom / internet provider in Ireland is still ’screw the punter’. Firstly with exorbitant charges, secondly with shite, antiquated and inadequate service. They are experts at cunting us in the bastard, 365 days a year.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:41 am
If you want to know whether or not a company is investing in itself, check to see how old their fleet of vans are. It’s a good indicator. Their vans are nearly all ten years old or more. They have no intention of upgrading their service because they’re going to sell up anyway.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Unfortunately we don’t have UPC (issues with the lazy cunts not wanting to cross the Royal Canal). The other alternative is BT. Who I’ve heard are slightly better. Slightly. I was upgraded to Eircom’s 3mb line and actually had to get them to drop it back to 2mb because everything turned to shit. Goddamn the infrastructure in this country is a load of old cock.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Why doesn,t some other company come in and offer another service provider in Ireland to compete with EirCom?
March 4th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I think it’s because most of the competitors to Eircom ride the Eircom network (as in actual physical wiring). Eircom need to upgrade everything for even other companies to offer better service.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Before you even get to having ’super fast’ broadband you need a phone line. The git that came and installed my line wired it wrong, I ended up with no phone line for weeks and in the end, had to re-wire the bloody thing myself. Because I was switching to BT, Eircom didnt bother their arses fixing the line that they never installed properly in the first place. Shower of assholes.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Anyone else have Magnet broadband. Seems to work fine but haven’t a breeze what speed it is because I’m a duffer on these things and don’t do much uploading/downloading.
I think you have have to have a fiber optice super-futuristic space-gaff to get it though
March 4th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
SG:go to http://www.speedtest.net
do the speedtest,its pretty accurate
March 4th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Thanks F, I’ll check it out later at home
March 4th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Fucker keeps asking me for money!
March 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Got rid of eircom a few weeks back as I was fed up with their bills for “Superfast” broadband, which, unelievably, was about as quick as my 3G wireless dongle I use now for €19 a month. When I rang them to cancel, they asked had I checked out any of their new offers…
“Do they include Superfast broadband as the rest of the world understands it, i.e. alot fast then your pathetic 3mb?”
“Eh, no”
“Do any of these great offers offer me anything that doesn’t require me to hire a line off you for €39, even though I don’t use it. Ever?”
“No”
“Bye then”
March 4th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
March 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Oooh, it works. Funky.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
You’re getting 20mb down Twenty? Or is that a piss take?
March 4th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
No, that’s what I get from UPC.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hehe… Great for “Buying” movies and Music…
March 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, I can log onto the iTunes store much faster than …. pfff ….. bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ….
March 4th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I have cuntcom in the office, 10MB down more or less. Steady enough link but if you call them for anything you risk them disconnecting you by mistake and then phoning you and asking if you want broadband.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
One of their business packages? Must cost a fortune.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I have cuntcom in the office, 10MB down more or less. Steady enough link but if you call them for anything you risk them disconnecting you by mistake and then phoning you and asking if you want broadband.
Thats how the Sales Dept keep their Figures high on the Board.. Its an old Trick i used to dispise when i was in a similar company doing sales..
Any time i proposed that we stop people being disconnected by actually fixing the problem.I got funny looks.. I left there soon after.. It was like “The Office” only there was no joke..
March 4th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I’m still waiting on a solicitor’s letter from Eircom. I’ve no idea where I stand legally for setting this up: http://ratemyisp.ie/ratings/eircom/ sorry for the linkbait or whatever you call it!
They’ll probably just block it. Not surprisingly Eircom have twice as much reviews as everyone else most of them loathsome.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Switched from Eircom to BT Ireland because of the IRMA thing. Thing is, it’s not really Eircom’s job to defend consumer rights; that’s more down to groups like Ireland Offline and Digital Rights Ireland.
Meanwhile, Eircom 7Mb = 75 euro/month; BT 7.6Mb = 55 euro/month, and will be 24Mb if you’re near one of the exchanges they’ve rolled the high speed stuff out on.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Now this tax on SMS messages on the other hand, that’s a whole pile of douchebaggery because it’s coming down from the government, the lousy useless shower of gombeenmen:
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12418/comms/text-tax-proposal-unfair-and-injust-irish-cellular-industry-association
March 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Jesus Christ, more fuckwittery from the Green Party. A tax on sms messages?
Fucks sake.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
They cant put another tax on Text messages as there is already a tax on them.As far as I know Double taxation is illegal..
But when has that ever stopped the cunts before..
March 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
They should tax Mochas.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
March 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
March 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
What would be the big problem with a 1 cent tax on sms? Like it or not more money has to be brought in somehow
March 4th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
As pointed out above we’re already paying VAT on our phone bills. So they can fuck off.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Tasty, Manuel.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
So instead you’d prefer to just increase vat across the board?
March 4th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
No, they should lower VAT.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Is Smart telecom still alive? I would have loved to have tested my old line with those crazy morons. .00001…..error
March 4th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
It will never work, the Catholic Church was people to give up texting for Lent you see.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
was=want, le sigh.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Will that make Jesus happy?
March 4th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Tax on cocaine.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
A tax on E. The letter E.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Just hav to stop using that lttr thn
March 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
by the way – Telenor, the norweigian telecom told the record companies to f**k off – they wanted piratebay blocked. news story in the past few days.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Also in the Times, Ted Kennedy has crossed another bridge safely, Brown has made him SIR Ted!
March 4th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I have 24 Mb and it’s costing me about €35 a month. Not in Ireland, needless to say. My entire experience of Telecom/Eircom is that they are a crowd of greedy, useless, ripoff cunts, so I cancelled the landline to my Irish country residence over a year ago and depend on a mobile phone. Now that wireless broadband is available there, I think I’ll get a connection, because i intend to start spending more time in the soon impoverished and cheaper auld sod. But I’ll get it from anyone but Eircom.
Try phoning their customer service department and listen to those utter stupid ignorant cunt bitches who are rude on top of being – I suppose – as ugly as fuck, fat and no use at all in the sack.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
@ fatmammycat:
March 4th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
“It will never work, the Catholic Church was people to give up texting for Lent you see.”
I have a better suggestion. Shouldn’t people try giving up religion for Lent? Then they might eventually be able to shake the habit altogether.
Science will fly to to the Moon. Religion will fly you into a tall building.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Science will fly to to the Moon.
So it has been claimed – there’s no doubt that Science gave us Napalm, Agent orange, Mustard gas, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Christ alone knows what hellish bio-warfare germs just waiting to escape from laboratories.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Manuel, why is your server in Dublin?
March 5th, 2009 at 4:13 am
Sorry, didnt realize you had to select a server. Hows come there’s no server for Norn-Iron?
March 5th, 2009 at 6:28 am
@SAm Crea
Re.Manuel.I hear he’s given up pinging with himself for Lent.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I’m using Digiweb. 8mb for €39.99 a month and never had a problem. It doesn’t use a phone line, it works wirelessly over a radio link. I can make calls on it too.
@Radge, I have a friend that works for Irish Broadband and he warned me never to go with them. They’re useless cunts.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I’m with BT Ireland on a 3mb package.
Speed tested a couple of weeks ago and it was over 5mb.
Nothing has changed in my pc setup since but retested today and it’s now only 2mb.
Anyone any idea why this is?
March 5th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Jaysus, are we still in the stone ages.
I moved out foreign two years ago when I saw the first waves of recession coming my way. This month I’m upgrading my connection from 30Mb to 100 Mb. All for € 30 a month. Get free phone calls and TV too.
March 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Where are you?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Where am I?
Paris!
March 11th, 2009 at 10:57 am
March 12th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Damn…
March 17th, 2009 at 9:05 am
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June 16th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Eircom now offering speeds of 7mb using their new Eircom Mobile Dongle. Shove that up your pipe-holes…that should keep yis quiet for a while