Pre Pay Mobile Broadband Prices Ireland
November 12, 2011
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Posted by Money Guide
Pay as You Go Mobile broadband is very popular amongst students, tenants and people who can’t or don’t want to sign up to a 12 month bill pay contract.
It can also be useful if you have broadband at home – but also want internet access when you are on the move too.
Pre Pay Mobile Broadband Prices Compared
There are several pre-pay mobile broadband packages on the Irish market – with options to pay for as little as one day’s access or as much as 30 days.
The data allowances can be fairly low – so we have worked out the mobile broadband deal with lowest price per Gb
Three do a pay as you go deal costing €35 for 30 days broadband with a data limit of 20Gb. This works out at €1.75 per Gb. Visit 3 Here
This 20GB allowance from Three is the highest of all the prepay mobile broadband providers - the largest allowance from the other providers is 7.5GB
The next lowest price per Gb is from Meteor and eMobile - they both charge €19.99 for 30 days access and a 7.5Gb allowance. That works out at €2.67 per Gb.
If you are not too worried about data limits or allowances – and you just want to be able to get access to the internet every day for small things like email and browsing – then the cost per day is probably the thing to compare.
The lowest cost per day for prepay mobile internet is €0.50 – again from Three. This is their 30 days internet for €15 with a 1gb allowance.
(1gb is about equivalent to 1000 emails or 10 hours constant web surfing )
Most of the other suppliers charge €20 or €19.99 for 30 days access – which works out at €0.67 per day. The best of these is Meteor and eMobile – with their 7.5Gb allowance.
Vodafone and O2 have a lower 5Gb data allowance. See all O2 options here
See Vodafone options here
Modem Prices - All the providers charge for the mobile broadband modems (dongles) – with similar prices – basic models start at between €19 and €39 . Faster modems will cost a bit more.
Pricing checked November 2011
Categories: Best Buys, Meteor, Mobile Broadband, O2, Price Comparison, Three, Vodafone
Can I just offer a little mild criticism here…..
Why does Tesco Mobile Ireland not get a mention here at all???
Data Bundle Prices are just so competitive:
24hrs 50MB for €0.79
7 days 350MB for €2.99….(equiv €0.43c/day 50MB/day)
30 days 1GB(1024MB) for €6.99…..(equiv €0.23/day 34MB/day)
On Tesco Calls/SMS/MMS to other Tesco numbers are Free….
Hi Danny – the post you commented on is about mobile broadband – the little dongle type modems that you plug into your computer for internet access.
Tesco don’t offer those – that’s why I didn’t mention them.
Regards
Danny – If it’s that good – why are you using Eircom to access the internet today ?
Danny – I’ve not really looked into tethering much – and from your praises of it I assumed it was your main access.
Sorry.
I am interested to find out more about the use of phones instead of those broadband dongles.
Do other providers allow it? Is Tesco much cheaper than the others?
Thanks
Thanks mate, no need for sorry at all…..:)
I can just speak from my own experience with Android, and just since March this year.
As I said, TMI explicitly allow Mobile Tethering, I feel this is to capture a Market Segment who are “knowledgeable”…as it is seen to be slightly techy…but it is easy on the Android, at least for Froyo 2.2 up, as it is natively supported by the OS.
I know that my son, who has an iPhone 4, can also Tether on the Three Network.
I do not know about O2 or Voda, but as Tesco is a “virtual” MVNO on the O2 Network (it actually piggy-backs on O2 Ireland) I would be surprised if it is not allowed, but someone else would have to confirm that.
“Is Tesco much cheaper than the others?”
This was the point of my OP…..Tesco is cheaper than all the others, and I am not sure the others allow Tethering at all, except for Three.
There is no extra charge at all, you just use the Data you have paid for, which I outlined in my OP, and as Tesco confirm on their web site:
“Data used while tethering is deducted from your active data bundle allowance at no extra charge.”
Hope this helps….
Danny
@Money Guide
I am coming with a group of people to Ireland next year in March, and will stay 3 months. What would you suggest we do? The houses for lease do not offer internet access so we will have to arrange this ourselves.
Hi Daniel – I would try THREE first – they have the best option and seem to have a fairly wide coverage . You will have to buy the “dongle” and then buy credit for it each month. You will probably need one for each person.