Looks like its the time of year for Telcos to update their phone pricing – on top of VHA’s post-paid plan updates this week, Optus has just updated their pre-paid options.
In particular, they’ve added “Turbo Max” options to the pre-paid family, which aside from sounding like it was named by a five year old who just watched Power Rangers, offers 3,000 minutes per recharge for $70, or 3,000 minutes, 3,000 SMS and 2GB of data for $100.
Recharges expire after 30 days, as is typical with prepaid plans. It’s interesting to note as well that the Optus website says the plans have “unlimited*” calls to mobiles, although the asterisk clearly says that it’s only up to 3,000 minutes. I know it’s nothing new, but there really is something wrong with the system where someone can claim unlimited is equal to 3000 minutes…
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hiDRmick
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:13 PMUm, yeah, that’s all well and good, although if they are giving that much voice, text and data they should also extend the expiry to at least 60 days.
I just can’t see many people using that much in a month, unless they were surgically attached to their phones.
Once again, the true advantage lies with Optus, not with the consumer.
Ian
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM@hiDRMick, that’s the point. Perceived value but not necessarily real value.
They know very well that most people wont get near the limits.
Cheers
matt
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 3:48 PMso dumb.
I am happy with their $30 one where you get 100 free minutes to 5 optus phones, and the credit, and free minutes last 6 months. it lasted me all 6 months too, even after I wasted $20 in the first 4 days because of a stupid glitch with my phone!
the dumb thing is I keep getting txts and calls from them trying to convince me to get one of these turbo ultra mega HD options… DO I LOOK LIKE THE TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC??