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Planhacker: Which "Unlimited" Prepaid Plan Offers The Best Deal? Planhacker: Prepaid 3G Wi-Fi Hotspots 2011 Planhacker: Free Call Deals For Prepaid Phones $51.35 through Big W’s online store is the cheapest price we’ve seen so far for the basic prepaid X1 (a solid if ageing Android handset), beating last month’s $60 offer at ALDI even when you add in postage (around $4). Like that deal, it’s network-locked to Optus. [Big W via OzBargain]
As well as cheap iTunes cards, Kmart’s current catalogue includes two discounted prepaid Android phones: the LG Optimus Spirit on Telstra for $129, and the HTC Incredible S on Optus for $299.
The Huawei Ideos X1 was a sub-$100 proposition even when it launched, but ALDI’s $59.95 deal (on sale from Wednesday morning) is still the cheapest price we’ve seen (Optus itself now sells it for $71.10).
Further proof that one of Android’s virtues is a wide variety of price points: Telstra this week begins selling the Samsung Galaxy Y as a prepaid handset for $129.
Its “free third month” offer ended recently, but Amaysim is currently running another deal which keeps it looking good in the competitive prepaid stakes: 20 per cent off the price for the first order.
There are dozens of prepaid plans on the market which offer “unlimited” calls in Australia without tying you to a contract, but which offer the best value? Planhacker rounds up every deal currently on offer.
Go back two years and the safe presumption was that a prepaid mobile plan would have a lousy data allowance, but things are changing. Savvytel’s Savvy Unlimited plan includes 4GB of data as well as unlimited calls and texts to Australian numbers, and costs $38 a month.
Offering a “funky” youth brand is standard practice for prepaid mobile operators: Optus does it with Boost and (to a lesser extent) Virgin Mobile, while Red Bull is a similar offering on Vodafone. ONEmobile ploughs the same furrow, but under the cool branding is a very ordinary offer indeed.
When we recently rounded up how providers count data usage on your mobile phone, Telstra’s Encore mobile plans were one of the less generous options, with data counted in 1024KB blocks (yep, 1MB). That has now changed, with the provider switching to per-KB counting.
Eighteen months after it launched, Vodafone is killing off its Bonus Bank mobile rewards scheme for prepaid customers. If you’ve been saving credits towards a new handset, you’ve only got until the end of December to redeem them.
