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03-07-2008, 12:51 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Not bad for prepaid pricing/outright purchases plus the network unlock.
Hello iPhone 3G (8GB) for me?  |
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03-07-2008, 12:51 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Clayton, Melbourne
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Who would sign up and immediatly cancel? Unlocking fee is 80 dollars for first 6 months, and prepaid pricing is rather good.
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03-07-2008, 12:52 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne Status:Awesome!
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Originally Posted by oliyoung
So as i read that, taking the 12 month " yes' iPhone Cap Plan" costs of
24 month Minimum Total Cost of $456 and 24 month Initial Termination Fee of $400, totally $856, you need to add the handset costs, which total $612 (8gb) and $732 (16gb).
So all up, signing upto Optus and immediately canceling ..
8gb will cost $1,468
16gb will cost $1,558
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You would just go for the pre-paid iPhone then wouldn't you?
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03-07-2008, 12:53 PM
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Group: Regulars
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using the $79 plans
YES CAP plans have:
$500 free calls / sms
35c flagfall (every call)
25c SMS
35c per 30secs calls
20mins free to other OPTUS phones (8pm til midnight)
5mins free to other phones on the same mobile account
YES plans have:
$74 free calls
25c flagfall (every call)
25c SMS
21c per 30secs calls
plus one of the following:
100 free texts
5mins free to other 5 other OPTUS phones
20mins free to other OPTUS mobiles phones
plus rollback pricing and other stuff.
So basically you can bundle it all together in a CAP and your spending MORE per call / SMS but you get it under the $550 ALLOWANCE worth of calls / SMS
or on the YES you get less ALLOWANCE ($49) but the actually call / SMS rate is cheaper per call / SMS. plus the freetime / rollback stuff...
Best thing to do is get an old bill, work out how many calls you make, who those calls are too (optus or not), how many SMS's etc and work out if it's between $79 and $550. There will be a cross over point where it's better to go one way or the other... But goodness knows where that is!
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03-07-2008, 12:53 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne Status:Awesome!
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Originally Posted by evmorg
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Actually, it's not bad... not as good as Telstra, but not bad...
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03-07-2008, 12:53 PM
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Member
Group: Member
Location: Sydney
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yo! i just got the email. you can register your preference (black, white, 16gb, 8gb.
So maybe I'm an idiot, but does that mean you pay the monthly rate of say, $59 as well as the handset repayment, taking the total potentially up to $101 per month (16gb on a 12 month contract)?
Or is the handset repayment included in the monthly rate?
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03-07-2008, 12:54 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tragedies
Who would sign up and immediatly cancel? Unlocking fee is 80 dollars for first 6 months, and prepaid pricing is rather good.
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So true.
I will wait for Vodafone who should have similar deals. I'm going to get it outright and stay locked to their network (since I'm a happy Vodafone customer).  |
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03-07-2008, 12:54 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Downloading Music to your Apple iPhone: To download music to your Apple iPhone you will require iTunes with a broadband connection.
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Does this mean no 3G iTunes Store access? |
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03-07-2008, 12:54 PM
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Member
Group: Member
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oliyoung
So as i read that, taking the 12 month " yes' iPhone Cap Plan" costs of
24 month Minimum Total Cost of $456 and 24 month Initial Termination Fee of $400, totally $856, you need to add the handset costs, which total $612 (8gb) and $732 (16gb).
So all up, signing upto Optus and immediately canceling ..
8gb will cost $1,468
16gb will cost $1,558
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Yes, but you wouldn't do that now would you  Especially seeing as though there are pre-paid plans that only charge you $80 to unlock (or free if you buy $80 worth of credit)
Edit: Too late - on more than one count, haha |
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03-07-2008, 12:55 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Just got the email about the rate plans
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03-07-2008, 12:55 PM
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You can't handle the truth!
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Ok just got off the phone with Optus. The guy who I was transferred seemed to know all about the new plans. He said if you chose say the $49 cap and realise there isn't enough data for you, you can upgrade to the higher plans at no cost. However you handset repayments will stay the same.
And there are extra data packs you can add on, $15 for 200mb. However thats more expensive than just going up $10/month ad getting 250mb extra. He said the data pack won't change, but that doesn't sound right to me.
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03-07-2008, 12:55 PM
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Ex-InGenius :p
Group: Regulars
Location: Proud owner of a funky 3x2 in Ellenbrook.
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Originally Posted by evmorg
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Both Telstra and Optus seem to have rather limited WiFi out here in the wild west. I'm going to see what Vodafone do....
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03-07-2008, 12:55 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Adelaide - SA
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Originally Posted by Erwin
You would just go for the pre-paid iPhone then wouldn't you?
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yes, you would, i did't see the pre-paid pricing  |
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03-07-2008, 12:56 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia.
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our data allowance does not include services such as Voice calls, Voice Mail, International SMS, premium and Third Party SMS, Optus iZoo and Third Party content and applications,
What does this mean?
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03-07-2008, 12:57 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dolbinau
our data allowance does not include services such as Voice calls, Voice Mail, International SMS, premium and Third Party SMS, Optus iZoo and Third Party content and applications,
What does this mean?
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That means those are extra. |
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