Earlier this week I wrote about the hard lessons learned by an Irish Times reader when it came to buying and renewing insurance on their mobile phone, Hard lesson learned on the pointlessness of paying for mobile phone insurance. Inspired by that story, here are the ValueIreland Top VI Tips on saving money on mobile phone insurance. Don’t buy mobile phone insurance When buying a mobile phone in a shop, don’t buy the mobile phone insurance they offer you there and then …
Tag: Vodafone
There is a regular segment in the Irish Times Pricewatch column each Monday that this week is likely to fall foul of misleading descriptions regulations in the 2007 Consumer Protection …
I missed out on publishing this addition to the Overcharging Hall of Shame back when it happened, but it’s worth remembering that it’s the highest profile businesses in Ireland that …
Recently, I’m becoming more and more aware of “the angles” or agendas of newspaper journalists when reading their published articles. Some would say that I’m just becoming more cynical. While …
In a recent article for the Irish News of the World, I was looking at the cost of sending texts. As I’ve highlighted for many of the articles I’ve written, …
Irish News of the World May, 2009 Diarmuid MacShane Broadband on the Move In doing some research recently, I came across the mind boggling fact that there are 117million mobile …
Irish News of the World May, 2009 Diarmuid MacShane Text Message Confusion Do you know how many text messages you send each month? How much is your texting habit costing …
A piece by Conor Pope in the Irish Times Pricewatch column recently, which I referred to here, also brought to mind something which I tried to highlight in a recent …
Mobile Phone companies drop their costs – There was good news last week when the main three mobile phone companies announced that they were reducing their mobile termination costs down …
Vodafone has been added to the overcharging list of shame for the fourth time now since I started compiling it in 2004. They’re no almost as prevalent on the list …
Irish News of the World Sunday March 15th, 2009 Diarmuid MacShane Mobile Phone Taxes and Charges Times are tough all round, with little chinks of light every so often – …