Recent Posts
Value Ireland Blog
Return To Blog Listing
Do you think you're living in "Rip Off Ireland"? Or are you getting value for money? Use Value Ireland for Tips, Advice and Articles to find your way around living life in the Ireland of today.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'o2'
National Consumer Agency starts their petrol price investigation
In case you don't know, you can be safe in the knowledge that the National Consumer Agency have started their investigation into petrol prices as referred to here.The very morning after that investiga...
Problems with O2 Experience Customer Service
Alexia has a post here bringing to an end, sort of, a saga of poor customer service experienced at the hands of O2. Also linked in that post are other poor customer experiences suffered by some others...
The Euro - Sterling Dual Pricing Issue (2)
The Irish Independent are gamely trying to continue the "controversy" over the Euro to Sterling dual pricing issue. Their article in todays paper, Shoppers fleeced by cross-border price gap, is merely...
Consumer Affairs - A couple of items of note
The Sunday Business Post today published its research into the prices charged to Irish consumers by British retailers based here in Ireland. According to the article "Irish shoppers are paying up to 5...
The Institute of Customer Service
I was doing a little research for a Value Ireland article I’m hoping to publish in the next few weeks when I came across the Institute of Customer Service. What a great idea, I thought, especially f...
iPhone comes to Ireland
Apart from my frustration about how the arrival of the iPhone to Ireland caused Vodafone to drop their Nokia N95 prices, I don't think I can add a whole lot to the discussion that's been published alr...
Stop the Presses - Competition Arrived in Ireland Today
The Vodafone website today is offering the Nokia N95 8GB version for between €169 and €229 depending on the price plan that you sign up for.Any takers on the possibility that they’ve been prodde...
Broadband Penetration - what do the published numbers really mean?
There's lots of comment and reportage around recently about broadband penetration within Ireland, and how poor we might be compared to the rest of Europe.I wonder how would I be counted in any of thes...
Nokia N95 - update on sending texts
First of all, thank you to fabio cerullo for his comments in an effort to help regarding the problems I was having with sending texts with O2 on my new Nokia N95.As it turned out, the solution was qui...
Nokia N95 that can do everything except send texts
As mentioned here, I recently left Vodafone to join O2 on the basis of getting a similar monthly package and getting a cheaper N95 phone.There were some great comments about the N95 here in yesterdays...
Customer retention, again
A while ago, I commented about why I found it so hard to understand why Irish businesses seem to be not too bothered about trying to keep customers.I'm in the middle of such an experience myself again...