Esat line rental service to target residential telephone customers

COMPETITION in the phone market hotted up again yesterday as Esat BT began a new push to grab a share of the country’s 1.2 million residential customers.

Esat says customers will now be able to switch their home phone service from Eircom to them and receive a single telephone bill.

Prior to this customers who switched received two bills, one for their calls from their new supplier and another for line rental from Eircom.