Optus has rounded up the pricing on its contract mobile phone plans, shifting from prices ending in a nine to “rounder” numbers: $35, $50, $55 and $80.
Virgin Mobile has increased the data allowance on its contract (postpaid) mobile broadband plans. The improvements are welcome, and somewhat surprisingly they also apply to existing contract customers.
Virgin Mobile is trimming down its range of postpaid plans, with five aimed at smartphone buyers and two for your text-shy, browser-nervous elderly relatives. What do the new plans offer?
There’s a lot of possible choices if you want to buy an Android phone, but the option with the smallest up-front investment remains buying a phone as part of a postpaid contract. Here’s a roundup of what’s on offer from the major Australian carriers right now.
Planning to source your own mobile phone but still figure Telstra has the best network for your needs? New changes to the company’s BYO plans make it a potentially more appealing option, upping the data and text inclusions.
Telstra has confirmed the revisions to its postpaid contract plans which we reported on at the beginning of the week. The new “Freedom Connect” plans, which include more data and free national SMS on most caps, will go on sale from March 29. There’s a press release on Telstra’s site, and Nick’s overview at Gizmodo has all the figures.
Nick over at Gizmodo has the inside scoop on an impending revamp to Telstra’s postpaid mobile plans. If you’ve been thinking of signing up for a Telstra contract phone, it’s worth waiting until March 29 to get a better deal.
Given its overall size, it was surely only a matter of time before iiNet added mobile telephony to its roster. The ISP has added a set of postpaid mobile options to its roster, but doesn’t currently have any prepaid plans.
If you don’t want a super-cheap Android tablet, then a 24-month contract may offer the best deal. Planhacker weighs up the various offers.
Telstra has substantially increased the download volume in its data packs for adding to existing postpaid mobile phone plans, boosting the cheapest $10 plan fivehold to 1GB and topping out with a $69, 12GB plan.
