Changed to NTL Chorus about 3 months ago and took the 3mb broadband, phone and basic TV service. Before call costs, it costs me €44. I was paying eircom about €80 (incl "all ireland minutes") for bb and line and chorus another €32 for a basic plus TV service. Best financial decison for 2008! (Although, the way the ISEQ performed, that wouln't be difficult).
I was able to transfer the eircom number over no bother, no charge. Have the odd occasion (once a forthnight) when I can't receive calls as described above. When I called Cus Services they checked the signal, said it was weak, and arranged a tech visit. I cancelled because I've split the line and this might be my fault. (I might move the modem closer to where the line enters the house). I can live with the odd landline in outage tbh. (Have Skype-in online number as a backup). Have had no bb outage.
Have had no problems with their billing. Roughly, same figure monthly.
Incidently, we were also paying Vartec about €12-14 for calls to Europe and eircom an extra €10 for their all-ireland unlimited landline package . Now, we make all calls (Ireland landline and Europe landline) through Skype using the RTX Dual Hanset (you can receive your landline calls on the same handset). Now, we pay €4.50 to Skype for all Europe (incl Ireland) landline calls unlimited - no silly 59 minute rule like we had with eircom. With this subscription, you also get a free online number (beginning 01 442**** or 076, 021 etc), voice-mail, caller-id, Skype on teh go number.
For the saving, I would defintely give Chorus NTL a go and consider a Skype subscription if you make many calls outside Ireland.
(No connection to UPC whatsoever. Was initally worried about the NTL Cust Services but haven't had problems with UPC Chorus NTL).