Spoke with my contact in Telstra and she said all T-life stores will definitely have it plus a CBD or metro store in all states and a few regional locations. Still trying to find out exact locations for the 15 stores.

Details will be released Tuesday, spoke to my cousins auntie who works at Telstra (no not a retail store) from what they heard in the office, tuesday its coming out...still trying to get word on the store.

Hey guys,

Spoke to the sales chick at the T life store on George st, she said staff are been trained next Tuesday.

Their store will open 6am next Friday and will have 650units.

Please tell me you are not lying :P

Also, do you have to have a credit card to sign up to a plan? Or for people over 18 like me, with no credit card, can we use our bank cards etc etc?

You don't need a credit card to sign up to a plan, and if you have to pay any money a debit/bank card is fine. They just need enough ID for them to run a credit check and sign you up/bill you.

Awesome, Drivers Licence should be fine

Never done anything like this in person, usually over the net...and im on prepaid atm...

Just didnt want to turn up and have them say "sorry you need this this and this"

Thanks for the clarification.

You need a hundred points, so a drivers licence, medicare card and bank ATM card / credit card are what you want.

This is the standard points value list

100 Point Check: Proving Your Identity to the Ministry of Transport - NSW Ministry of Transport

Legend, thankyou.

ill take in my birth certificate and my drivers license.

see these kinds of numbers make me think...

do people really think that +650 people are going to be at the Telstra Optus Voda stores at launch and you'll miss out on an iPhone? I don't.

Thats probably more phone sales than each store sees in a week or two

But if each store that is getting the iPhone in Australia (15 stores?) That's 650x15=9750. Wouldn't Telstra have more phones than that?

I love all these numbers that are getting bandied about. 4500 in total at one point... then in another thread it said 20000... now itw 650 for a particular store. I guess we wait and see if there's blood on launch day when geeks don't get one.

There's 5 days till launch. There is a 20% chance that Telstra will release the details on Tuesday and an 80% chance that you're friends or contacts will look like fools.

Okay Im gonna add to the numbers here.... But Im reading the email from the Telstra Specialist I have inside Telstra.. So take this info as you see fit....

Telstra will only be getting 15000 pieces Nationwide in the first instance.

10% of that will go to the T Life Stores (so 750 To Melbourne - 750 Sydney): which coincides with that 650 mentioned above).

The last bit of info was a bit blurry, being that Telstra's channel will only be getting 200-300 in Melbourne.. I am suspecting he means Telstra stores in Victoria will be getting 200 - 300 so based on 64 stores in Victoria, thats about 5 units per store!

Even the Telstra blokes are saying they are gonna have to queue.

This is looking to be a major let down come Friday!

If I go with Telstra I'm going to George street at 6pm if they open at midnight or 5-6am if they open at 9am. Hopefully I'll get one

I'm taking the more relaxed approach. I'll wait and see what goes down. I have no doubts that I wont miss out on one. I might not be the first with one tho.

But whats the difference? People are still gonna be talking about it a month after.