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Old 31-07-2008, 05:39 PM
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Oh fuck, $29 for 250mb is actually reasonable.
Too bad Telstra, you missed out. Maybe in 2 years time yeah?
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Well at least those who got hold of an outright have the flexibility to go back if they want to. I honestly don't see my data being much over 300mb a month once the novelty has worn off. Though it is lots of fun uploading photos to facebook. I can see myself doing that constantly.
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Wow that's great news. I'm planning to keep my 1st gen iPhone when i get back, and now there's a better reason to be with Telstra.

Telstra Prepaid also has a new product offering - Talk & Text More where you recharge your account with $60, you get 250 minutes call time, 250 text and $60 to be used on prepaid services. So probably you can use the $60 for the data pack.

$60 per month is a little expensive but you can find cheaper ways to recharge your account with credit to sweeten the deal.
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Old 31-07-2008, 05:47 PM
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Meh. Not that excited, as shown below with comparison of my current Optus plan.

Optus $59 VS Telstra $59

Handset Cost
Telstra: $279 for the 8GB
Optus: $2 p/month on 24 month contract = $48

Included Calls
Telstra: $24
Optus: $350

Included Data
Telstra: 300MB
Optus: 500MB

Sure, their coverage rocks. But unless you are in a rural area, it's nothing to really get excited about. Optus still kick Telstra's butt.
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yet optus still has the best value! sadly not the best coverage
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Considering Telstra are the only fuckers that you can get signal with here, this is excellent news!
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Old 31-07-2008, 06:16 PM
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post was on 31st of July they said from tomorrow but one problem no site update if i was in charge of the telstra site i would of been updating the night b4 on the comp then upload it to the site so its almost like instant
THEY'VE BEEN UPDATING THE WEBSITE AS OF 3:00PM DEST, Just went in to sign up for a 16Gb at Wagga Wagga Telstra shop and were told that it was down and they couldn't sign me up and that they'd leave a handset for me on Saturday.
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I'm confused. How much is 1GB of data on a business plan, using an iphone?

How much data would a heavy user need?
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Wow, I have been using the iphone's data solidly since the day iPhone was released here, and have only chewed through 30mb of data out of my 250mb per month plan. I wonder how anyone could go through 300mb!
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I'm confused. How much is 1GB of data on a business plan, using an iphone?

How much data would a heavy user need?
Thats heaps. Depending on heavy, 500MB should be more than enough. I'm an insanely heavy user, and I reckon I'm going to get close to about 400MB per month. I would be very surprised to hear stories about people racking up 1GB on data.
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Still pretty terrible, but at least the NextG network is somewhat useful for people that don't have a choice now.

The decision to make the $29 plan LESS valuable than the $10 is completely baffling though.
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Still pretty terrible, but at least the NextG network is somewhat useful for people that don't have a choice now.

The decision to make the $29 plan LESS valuable than the $10 is completely baffling though.
How is the $29 less valuable than the $10? If you download 300 MB on the $10 plan it would cost $85 for the month whereas on the $29 plan it would cost $29?
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Old 31-07-2008, 06:50 PM
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Here it the link showing the new data packs.

3G and Next Browsing Packs - Mobiles - Telstra
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20MB to 150MB is a fairly significant increase. I wonder if this is for pre-paid data packs as well as post-paid
Doesn't apply to Pre-Paid.

Telstra have also updated their website with the new costs:

Post-Paid Browsing Packs:
3G and Next Browsing Packs - Mobiles - Telstra

Pre-Paid Browsing Packs:
Browse Plus Packs - Telstra Pre-Paid
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The per MB rate difference has some significance for the iPhone plans.

Eg: At the moment, they calculate your rate for your existing iPhone plan data allowance based on the per MB rate of your add-on Data Package.

So, currently, a $10/20MB pack gets you a rate of $0.50, so combine that with an iPhone plan with $5 of included data and you get $5+$10=$15/0.50=30MB, or for $10 included data you get $10+$10=$20/0.5=40MB.

In the same way, combine a $29/80MB data pack (@ $0.36/MB) gets you $5+$29=$34/0.36=93MB and $10+$29=$39/0.36=107MB.

Now, if Telstra maintains its current method for determining data allowances, those numbers should change to:

$5 included + $10 pack @10/150=$0.067/MB = 15/0.067 = 223MB

$10 included + $10 pack @10/150=$0.067/MB = 20/0.067 = 298MB

$5 included + $29 pack @29/300=$0.097/MB = 34/0.097 = 350MB

$10 included + $29 pack @29/300=$0.097/MB = 39/0.097 = 402MB

So with the $10 pack you get an extra 73MB/148MB from your included data, while on the $29 pack you only get an extra 50MB/102MB.

Anyway, to use their current iPhone plans, you get:
  • 350MB on the $59 iPhone plan (up from 93MB) and $30 worth of calls; and
  • 402MB on the $89, $109 and $129 iPhone plans (up from 107MB) and $60, $80 and $100 worth of calls, respectively.


It would be interesting to see how this now compares in value with Optus. NeoRicen - care to give us a hand with the rest of it?
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