Well done mate. Top stuff!

One thing though, the colours on the graph dont really match up to anything.

Maybe it needs a key, sorta like this?

Yeah but sweet FA coverage

Awesome work on the post too NeoRicen, very informative. The moral of the story here is: avoid Telstra

Is that $15 a MB excess really true for virgin? That looks insane!!

I'd go for either Optus or three's first plans. It would really depend on if i go over that 10MB by much. I'm not really sure how to gauge it. Is there a way to check on the ipod touch? Like data sent/received?

I was about to say the same thing - also note with Three, lose reception to their 3G towers and you are instantly out of your data cap and have to pay enormous Telstra fees. This happens quite a bit in hilly areas, and you're plain out of luck outside of metro areas.

Don't even think of going up or down the coast (from your relative starting point) on holidays and expecting coverage either

Virgin is the winner for me. 300mb is plenty for web surfing and email. This may change with lots of YouTube use but I'm not a big YouTube watcher anyway. They also have the benefit of 300Mb being for 3G or GPRS (no extra charge for GPRS so seamless fallback), with the coverage of Optus (soon to be 98% of the population like Telstra come 2009).

Regards,
Shane.

Did no-one see the information regarding Telstra also being one of the carriers to carry the iPhone when it is released here? I'm sure I saw something on it about a week ago? I just did a google search and found this:

Telstra's June iPhone launch points to 3G: News - Communications - ZDNet Australia

Altho I don't think this is the "announcement" I read a week ago?

Absolutely nothing on Optus' website about using those plans on a phone, they're laptop only I'm afraid.

Crap, sorry, the original version had the key but when I made the updated version I forgot to copy the key onto it (for some reason a copy and paste into photoshop doesn't carry the key). I'm updating the look of it at the moment however and the new version will be up pretty soon (mainly just aesthetic updates) and will have a key. You have the colours right at the moment though.

Just DON'T go over your cap, Virgin has the worst excess charges by far. They are the best for light use, but for heavy use they are the worst.

Sorry for the Triple posts, can someone merge them.

UPDATE (Check First Page Again)
-I've updated the whole image to look nicer
-I've rearranged the tables as it makes sense to outline all the plans available first
-The MB for excess charge territory in the second table are now accurate (to the MB, kB are rounded off) and calculated using the supplied excess charge in the first table
-Graph is taller so differences in the lower range can be noticed slightly easier
-Made Creative Commons

Numbers looks so much better than excel when you compare them. the graphs in excel are so primitive.

Telstra NEVER announced they were getting the iPhone. CNet reported that Telstra got it, citing inside info, but Telstra hasn't officially announced anything. Chances are they will get it but there's no official word yet.

The Cnet Story: Telstra's June iPhone launch points to 3G - News - Mobile Phones

I hope Apple is stretching out dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the Telstra contact, just so they can see them suffer a little, after Greg Wiin's "stick to your knitting" comment...

legendary analysis

If someone is up for it, I would like to see 3 and maybe the next best analysed to include say $20 -$30 worth of calls. Ultimately I need some calls each month but want data mostly. I think thats going to be the combo plan for when the iPhone is released and it would be nice to see some preliminary analysis including some call use.

I'll give it a go, harder to do though because of caps, call rates etc.

After a quick glance at carrier sites it's going to be very hard to compare normal call plans because the caps tend not to be at the same amount. I can compare a $49 cap pretty well but that's more than $20-$30 worth of calls. I can compare Vodafone and Three on $30 plans but Vodafone's isn't a cap making a comparison unfair.

I guess three has the $29 cap, so thats just going add $29 flat. But I am not sure how many minutes of calls a month (assuming 1-2 minute calls on average) that really equates to.