Optus Unleashes Unlimited Calls And SMS Plans
The new mobile plans include unlimited calls, SMS and MMS messaging to mobiles in Australia. The new plans - which Optus is calling Timeless - include a $99 option and a $129 option. The more expensive of the two plans also includes 2GB worth of data, which makes it perfect for iPhone use…
If those numbers seem a little bit pricey, there’s also a $79 cap that includes $550 worth of calls and unlimited texts. If that’s still too much for you, look at it this way - unlimited voice calls means you can ditch your home phone, saving at least $30 a month.
The catch? Well, it seems as though the $99 option is only available if you take the $14.95 mobile data pack on top (which offers 200MB), meaning it really costs $113.95 per month. And really, when you pay that much, why not upgrade for 2GB of data for an extra $17?
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Once again we get screwed for data plans.
Why no UNLIMITED data at that price ? It’s not as if it costs them much, and theu would royally screw Telstra and Vodafone.
Even Rogers in Canada, arguably one of the most hated Telcos on the planet, is considering an unlimited data plan.
It’s the only way the iPhone will survive in Australia and get used to its’ full potential.
Honestly i am on the 850 meg plan ($89 per month cap plan) and unless i am browsing the net all day it is more than enough.
It gives me $600 of calls and text. I use this for work all it’s plenty.
I don’t think many reasonable people would use GB yet alone unlimted.
I don’t understand how they can say “unlimited phone calls but not data” when voice calls are just data too… And, internet data on a mobile device is low priority compared to voice data in that it’s not required to be in real-time, so Australia’s tiny data plans & (YES TELSTRA - TALKING TO YOU) don’t make any sense whatsoever.
We want the internets! It’s not hard, the infrastructure’s already there & it shouldn’t be anywhere near as expensive as it is!
Then again, we are still paying $0.25 for an SMS, and *that’s* also ridiculous (some countries ~$0.02/SMS)
“It’s the only way the iPhone will survive in Australia and get used to its’ full potential.”
Wanna put some money one this? Only way it will survive? Yeah right! I can tell from your post you don’t own an iPhone? Otherwise you would have know the Safari browser does not allow you to download ANY files, as it also has no file manager. Therefore the only downloading you will do is emails, webpages, maps, youtube and the app store.
After having the phone for over a week with Optus’s promotion of “unlimited data” for the first month, i have now downloaded just over 100mb. In the first week of owning the phone, ie. the most i’ll ever use/show it to friends, i’ve only downloaded 100mb.
I wish people that are ignorant on the topic would just stay away from posting comments.
Come on Gizmodo. At least $30? I bet a large percentage of your audience is using ADSL, and with most of the major providers the difference between naked and normal DSL is $10-$15. And telstra even offers line rental for $20. So lets get rid of this, ‘loosing a phone line always saves you $30′ crap.
Having just moved back to oz from Canada, I would take Rogers over any Telco service in Australia…
Unlimited data is the way to go.
Optusnet is able to do this, and so is Telstra.
Make it an introductory offer, and offer a free great model iphone phone every three years for customer loyalty, if they have been with them for a period. Saves on advertising, and keeps us all hoppy!
The iphone cannot be put on the timeless plans. Iphones can only be sold on iphone yes/cap plans.
There seems to be no possibility to get this plan with the iphone. It just doesn’t show up on the purchase form.
This is a HUGE step in the right direction guys, I wish you could recognise that. Would you rather limited data or limited calls?
This means you can ditch your home line.
Its an AMAZING plan, so see it as that, not as a sub standard plan as it doesnt offer unlimited data.
Who could have predicted that we would see a plan that sets no limits on talk time or sms messages?
Its not all about the data, so quit complaining when one of the most amazing phone plans ever is released.
Look, I agree that it *is* a huge step (matt w), but it’s not huge enough !! We get gouged by the telcos enough.
$600 calls is good (Davebear), but at what rate ? How long will $600 last at $0.45/30 seconds ? Does that include per second billing ?
I don’t want to have to worry about how much data I’m using AT ALL. Yeah, I probably won’t go near the plan limit, but if I do I don’t want any nasty surprises.
I’m doing an analysis of all the plans at the moment, but my initial feeling is that it would be cheaper in the long run for me to buy an unlocked iPhone (or unlock one) and get a $50/mo Blackberry data plan from Telstra on top of my voice plan - for that $50 our Blackberrys get unlimited data !