Comments on: OFFICIAL Telstra iPhone 3G plans – mix and match, but still poor value

By: toby

toby — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:20:17 +0000

well i reckon vodafones the way to go

yea its expencive upfront and evry mont but u get so much better
value than telstra and optus like $310 credit a month and 100 free txts a month and 250 mbs a month

u gotta b mad not 2

By: jono

jono — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:19:58 +0000

If you get the Iphone with Telstra, does it have to be on a plan or can it be pre-paid?

By: Karl Hardisty

Karl Hardisty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:35:18 +0000

The prices are rude – almost as rude as your pricing here in NZ: http://mothership.co.nz/blog/index.php/2008/07/08/iphone-rate-plans/

In particular, check out the phone cost itself. To say the nation went into a state of shock is an understatement. We even had the Vodafone Marketing Manager make a fool of himself on TV trying to justify them (check link at bottom of article)

By: Macca

Macca — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:31:07 +0000

As usual Australian carriers BUTT SLAM customers on data usage pricing. I have had a mobile phone in Australia for 10 years and I’m STILL not used to the fleecing that goes on here.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:16:20 +0000

hey does anyone know if Telstra will be releasing iphone with business plans? and also does the GPS run off satellite coverage or is there a data usage charge associated with it? thanks

By: xrez

xrez — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:57:37 +0000

Scrape my last comment. you CAN unlock the phone according to the people i called up at Optus and the Apple store. The information i got that you can’t was from the a’hole of a salesperson in a south Melbourne Optus store that told me you cannot unlock it and its locked to that particular sim card

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:48:18 +0000

Hey Gizmodo – can we get the lowdown on whether iphones on any of the Oz networks can be unlocked for use with other SIMs? There seems to be a bit of confusion. I spend a fair bit of time abroad and am not about to pay roaming prices. At the moment I have Oz, UK and Philippines SIMs that I just switch on landing. Being able to use different SIMs abroad is a dealbreaker for me, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

By: xrez

xrez — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:19:50 +0000

FYI you CANNOT unlock the optus iPhones. Although they state it on their website, its actually for prepaid on other phones and not the iPhone. If you get the prepaid version, you can only use it on that sim card…. unless someone jailbreaks it.

By: M@

M@ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:35:19 +0000

I’m willing to bet that part of the reason Telstra’s plans are so god-awful (aside from the blatant money-grabbing as a result of having something a lot of people want, and many people buying through a business won’t really care about prices for) is that their transformation efforts are almost certainly hampering their ability to create and market new plans within their existing (and either virginal, or about to be out-moded) systems. The offerings presented are merely a mish-mash of their existing data and call offerings, not anything specifically created to reflect the uniqueness of this device.
I’m not trying to say that they would have gone to the effort if they could, but I’m fairly sure that they actually couldn’t…so…er…didn’t…

By: Greg Lipschitz

Greg Lipschitz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:32:36 +0000

Well standing in line at Optus in Doncaster and stocks are already running low on the iPhone. Only 12 white 16gb 4 black 16gb and some 8gb left. The line outside voda is non existant and telstra has a small queue.