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	<title>Lifehacker Australia &#187; optus</title>
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		<title>Optus Mobile Application Store Lets You Buy With Your Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/optus-mobile-application-store-lets-you-buy-with-your-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores &#8212; Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether &#8212; so Optus&#8217; introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you&#8217;re already an Optus customer.
The Optus Mobile Application Store sells applications for a variety of handsets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optus And Telstra Checking Premium SMS Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, the ACCC started cracking down on premium SMS providers (premium in this context usually means &#8216;overpriced&#8217; and &#8216;waste of money&#8217;). Telstra and Optus are now doing their part by funding a service to check if premium SMS providers live up to their claims.
Both Optus and Telstra are paying WMC Global to check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optus My Wireless Plans Shrink After 12 Months</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/optus-my-wireless-plans-shrink-after-12-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=344310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Optus has revised its 3G broadband plans with increased download capacities and lower excess usage fees, but there&#8217;s a weird twist: after 12 months, the download limit for the plans is cut in half.
Optus argues that this approach means customers can pick the most appropriate plan after using the plan for a year and judging [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dodgy Ad Techniques That Telcos Can&#8217;t Use Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/dodgy-ad-techniques-that-telcos-cant-use-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/dodgy-ad-techniques-that-telcos-cant-use-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=341775</guid>
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Advertisements for phone services are often rife with fine-print details and sneaky conditions, but new regulations should curb the worst excesses.
The ACCC earlier this week announced that it had signed deals with the three national network providers &#8212; Telstra, Optus and Vodafone/3 &#8212; to stop the use of deceptive terminology in those advertisements. In simple [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Optus Offers iPhone Billing Tracker Application</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/optus-offers-iphone-billing-tracker-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure if you&#8217;ve chewed up all your data allowance on your Optus iPhone? While you&#8217;ve always been able to check your account details online, Optus is now offering a free iPhone application to keep track of that information.
One you&#8217;ve signed up for Optus online &#8216;My Account&#8217; service (for either prepaid or postpaid models), you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millions Now Using Wireless Broadband</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/millions-now-using-wireless-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/millions-now-using-wireless-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=339153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like high costs and buggy software haven&#8217;t put Australians off mobile broadband, with more than 2.5 million of us now using some sort of 3G dongle.
In its results released today, Telstra said it had more than one million broadband customers. Last week, VHA (the corporate name for the combined Vodafone and 3) said it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lifehacker 3G Broadband Directory, 2009 Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/the-lifehacker-3g-broadband-directory-2009-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/the-lifehacker-3g-broadband-directory-2009-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=338247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
What&#8217;s the best-value option in 3G broadband? Lifehacker weighs up the current contenders to find the most broadband bang for your buck.
3G broadband services are more popular than ever. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, wireless broadband now accounts for 1.4 million Australian broadband accounts, or around one-fifth of the total market. With plans [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cupcake Due On Optus HTC Dream This Month</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/cupcake-due-on-optus-htc-dream-this-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/cupcake-due-on-optus-htc-dream-this-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s plenty to like in the Android Cupcake update, but if you&#8217;re one of the (relatively) few Aussies with an Android phone, how much longer will you have to wait to get it? The answer: possibly not as long as you think.
Over at Gizmodo, Nick reports how one enterprising reader, Daniel, hassled Optus via Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Optus Wants $9.99 A Month For iPhone Tethering</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/optus-wants-99-a-month-for-iphone-tethering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/optus-wants-99-a-month-for-iphone-tethering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optus has finally announced its plans for iPhone tethering, and they&#8217;re not pretty: if you want to use your iPhone running the 3.0 OS as a modem, you&#8217;ll have to pay an extra $9.99 a month for the privilege.
The $9.99 fee &#8212; which will become available from June 22, according to an Optus press release [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Optus Offering $50 Bonus On Weekend Prepaid Top-Ups</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/optus-offering-50-bonus-on-weekend-prepaid-top-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/optus-offering-50-bonus-on-weekend-prepaid-top-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=336111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Optus is offering $50 extra credit to any prepaid customers who top up with $30 or more this weekend. While the fine print is worth checking (you only have 30 days to spend the extra credit and can only use it for regular calls and texts), if you&#8217;re already an Optus customer it&#8217;s a potentially [...]]]></description>
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