Free texts between home phones

In what seems to be a move to drive sales/rentals of its landline phones, Eircom has made text messages free between its fixed lines - but only for nine months. It's not as if this is costing Eircom a packet - it could easily offer SMS for nothing permanently given the practically zero cost of transmission.

The offer runs out in March 2006, is available only to Eircom customers and, obviously, you need a text-enabled digital phone (conveniently sold by Eircom).