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Vodafone Announces iPhone 3GS Pricing

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3:01PM June 24, 2009 | Nick Broughall

lara-binge-with-iphone1Vodafone just announced their iPhone 3GS pricing. Check it out below the jump:

As you’d expect, there are a number of plans available. The pick of the bunch is the $69 cap, which gives you a free 16GB iPhone 3GS over 24 months, including $400 worth of calls and text and 1GB of data.

For a free 32GB model, you’ll need to fork out $114 a month, which equates to unlimited talk and text plus 2GB of data.

Also worth mentioning is that tethering is included – you can use up your data through tethering without an additional monthly fee, although you can purchase extra data: 1GB is $25 and 2GB is $30.

And if you’re after some Pre-paid iPhone love, you can get that too, with the 8GB iPhone 3G costing $759, the 16GB 3GS costing $929 and the 32GB 3GS going for $1129.

For a complete run down, click the link to Vodafone’s website.

[Vodafone iPhone 3GS pricing]

Comments

  • Nick

    June 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    Ha, I just emailed you guys :)

  • Simon

    June 24, 2009 at 3:06 PM

    Hi there…anyone know whether the new iphone 3GS can be legally unlocked by vodafone?

  • Nick

    June 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    These plans are very good;

    I’m on a 24month $59 cap with Optus which means I pay an additional $7 per month, so $66 ($350 credit, 500Mb data)

    I could pay out the remain 13 months of my contract with Optus ($91 ($7×13) I would imagine), sell my 3G on ebay ($500), then join voda on the $69 plan and get the following for $3 a month extra.

    Visual voicemail, free tethering, $400 credit, 1Gb data, free weekend/after 8pm calls to vodafone, etc.

    Seems like a good deal…thoughts?

    • Rick Clarke

      June 24, 2009 at 10:36 PM

      $7 x 13? You’re dreaming, mate. Add to that the early termination fee, which is $840 for a 59 cap during the first 12 months, or $672 for months 13-15. So right now you’d be up for $931. If you wait a month, that drops down to $763. You did read the contract before you signed it right?

    • Steve

      June 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM

      Nick, Optus generally charge a cancellation fee depending on how much time you’ve got left on your contract, and depending on which iPhone model you chose…it’d definitely not be anything less than a few hundred dollars. The Optus site has more info :)

  • I want One

    June 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM

    Honestly, who would get the 3GS 16GB $59 Cap?

    You end up paying the same amount as on the $69 Cap, without getting the extra included talk,text and D/L that come with the $69 cap.

    • Steve

      June 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM

      Agreed, very silly pricing strategy. Although anyone stupid enough not to see the benefit in going the $69 over the $59 deserves to get screwed over.

  • Wilson Cheng

    June 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM

    Are those pricing guys’ minds working properly?

    Why would they bother making a $59cap plan when the total minimum cost over 24 months is the same as $69?? Just so that you feel like you have an option?

  • scott white

    June 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    Just checked out the vodafone plans.
    The 59 cap has a $10 a month handset charge taking the total cost to $69 a month.

    For this you get 500mb less data and $50 less calls…..

    Sounds like a good deal to me

    • scott white

      June 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM

      sorry should read:

      For this you get 500mb less data and $50 less calls than the $69 cap….

  • Brett

    June 24, 2009 at 4:35 PM

    Pricing seems to blow optus out of the water. I guess thats what you get when you release pricing first.

    Outright costs are a joke, obviously trying to push people to join via a contract instead.

    Any idea if Vodafone do 12 month contracts instead of 24 month contracts?

  • Benny583

    June 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM

    Would have gone for the $59 (+$10) plan but no, not with 500mb data.
    Pricing for the 3gs is so far pretty meh all around.

  • Michael

    June 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM

    Has everyone noticed this line below the prepaid option:
    “The Apple iPhone 3G (do they mean 3GS as well?) is also available on all other prepaid plans.”
    This would be great for me – because I don’t use my phone much as a phone, but would be willing to pay for data use. So I could pay $150 or there abouts for the 365 day expiring plan and then hopefully purchase a separate data plan.
    If that data plan is $24.95/month for 1Gb/month, it doesn’t work out any cheaper than the $69 contract though (probably more expensive). The question for me is if there any data included in the prepaid plans?

  • Ollie de Vries

    June 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM

    I heard from a friend who works at vodafone retail, they are under instruction to only sell iphone under condition that the customer creates a new number. Thats right, you cant transfer your old number onto the 3GS on Vodafone Australia.

    • Noel

      June 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM

      Ollie de Vries: not true, i went for the $69 cap plan with voda (16gb), and my number switched over. I was from 3, not sure if that had anything to do with it.

      Regarding their silly $59 cap plan for the iPhone 16gb, I was told it’s for consistency across the 3 models (8, 16, 32). The $59 plan makes sense for 8 and 32gb model, but not for 16gb.

  • Sam

    June 25, 2009 at 2:45 AM

    Optus didn’t make their plans look quite as attractive as the competition when the iPhone made its debut in Australia for one reason…. they finally worked out that their network is overcrowded hence the crappy mobile broadband speeds and constant drop out. so to prevent further overcrowding they made their plans poor value for money. voda got my vote… lets just see what three bring to the partay(yes i intended to spell party wrong)

  • matt

    June 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM

    bahahah, ‘free’ i wouldn’t call paying $114 a month free.

    the 69 cap looks ok, but id still never use my phone enough for it to be good value.

    but the prices of the phones are unbelievable! i would be willing to accept them if, a) the ipod touch wasn’t less than 1/2 the price, and b) if the US version wasn’t $199 US for the 16 gig GS, thats $250 aus!!! why do we pay nearly 4 times that!! F U apple! (tho i bet there is a big cut for the greedy telcos as well)

  • Aaron

    June 25, 2009 at 12:26 PM

    has anyone else noticed this article is “brought to you by Optus”…?

    HAHA Fail.

  • simon

    July 6, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    If you are a member of RAA/NRMA/RAC etc. and you order online you can get the first two months off your contract for free plus you get 10% off your monthly cap fee for the entirety of the contract.
    eg. $69 cap, you only pay $62.10 per month.
    It works out to be a saving of around $300.

    Just google “RAC Vodafone” etc.

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