From: Brian O'Donoghue (cout at domain eircom.net)
Date: Mon 08 Oct 2001 - 19:26:34 IST
Oh my GOD!
> Niall O Broin wrote:
>
>> Fresh from that call to Eircom, I asked a colleague in France what ADSL
>> costs him (and I sent that mail to the list - sorry :-( ) and here's his
>> reply:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Let's be nasty. I just received the France Telecom invoice this
>>> Morning, so I give here *real* prices (VAT included):
>>> - Installation (non-recurrent) : 46.11 EUR
>>> - Monthly fee (line + Internet + Ethernet modem): 49.54 EUR
>>>
>>> Let's be nastier: its 512k down, 128k up, and ... there is no cap.
>>>
>>
>> For thos who don't remember, here are the figures for Eircom's cheapest
>> offering - same rates, but a 3GB monthly cap.
>>
>>
>>> Connection fee EUR 150 inc. VAT
>>> Monthly fee is EUR 118.80 inc. VAT
>>> ADSL USB modem EUR 174 inc. VAT
>>> ADSL Ethernet modem EUR 240 inc. VAT
>>>
>
>
> An associate in the US (runs Gentoo Linux) pays just over $100
> a month for Business Class (A)DSL 640k/384k with no cap, and
> domain regitratation with unlimited hostnames, and 16 static
> ip addresses.
>
> What the f*ck are we doing living in this godforsaken country.
>
>
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