Public VOIP In Ireland
Friday, June 17, 2005 2:08 PM
For my one other Irish reader :-)
For years Eircom has has a bit of a strangle-hold on telephony in Ireland, they owned the lines and the exchanges and if you wanted to use a different company for your home telephone then you still had to pay Eircom for the line rental seperatly. It's starting to get better but I've just broken free of all the Eircom shackles and gone VOIP.
A fairly new company called BlueFace ( http://www.blueface.ie ) is now offering VOIP over whatever broadband conection you have. Once you sign up you'll get a proper telephone number, and for a few euro more you can purchase an IP telephone that just plugs straight into your router. Now I can phone people and others can phone me without giving a penny to Eircom.
So if you live in Ireland and have broadband then check it out and if you sign up then make sure you put 'qtzar' in the referrer field so thet they can throw a few extra credits in my account :-)