Some new phone deals come with free access to Facebook or Twitter for a limited time. Virgin Mobile’s going the extra step to give all mobile and broadband customers access to whatever they want with a bonus 1GB of mobile internet data until June 2010.
Here’s how it works: New and existing post-paid mobile customers and every Your Cap recharge will get 1GB (or $15 worth) of bonus data for three months. Post-paid broadband members will also get a bonus 1GB per month for three months, while new pre-paid broadband customers will get a bonus 1GB on activation. So mobile broadband users are the big winners here, but everybody gets something!
Virgin Mobile’s launched a three-month “Surprise Gig Tour” to promote the new offer, and kicked off with a performance by Aussie rock trio Wolfmother hosted by Richard Branson in Melbourne last Saturday. To find out who will be playing at the next gig, and where, check out the Member’s Lounge Facebook page. (Or, I could just tell you now that the next gig will be in Sydney and headlined by electro-rock band MGMT.)
Who’s interested?
Mark Batt
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 10:07 AMSince it’s almost impossible to use the 300mb I already have with Virgin, I can’t see being able to download 1gb. In the CBD it’s so slow that safari usually denies there’s a connection at all. When there is a connection, it’s slower than dial-up.
Flame
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 10:32 AMMark, what CBD? I use my 3G in Hobart/Greater Hobart which uses Optus’ network. The speed always seems to be quite snappy – couple of hundred KB/s when downloading. But I do get a lot of intermittent issues where no data comes through for a minute or so, and then it’s back to normal.
Steve
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:14 PMI agree with Flame.
I use Virgin Mobile on my iPhone in Hobart and its great.. very quick compared to my previous carrier :)
miles
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:55 PMGreat…more bloody people on the network!
i assume you are referring to melbourne.. and, though my phone shows good reception, sometimes i wonder if st kilda actually has any 3g at all!!
i was actually considering going to a low limit telstra plan and just using their 64k shaping.. it would seriously be a lot quicker.
Mark Batt
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 2:39 PMYep, talking about Melbourne here. Damned shocking. Even when I get to an area that I can reliably get a conection (say, Brunswick) it still take about 5 mins to download a 1 min Youtube. The connection is useless for anything other than text-based net-surfing to resolve arguements on the fly.
Brendan
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 3:22 PM“sometimes i wonder if st kilda actually has any 3g at all!!”
hahahaha. You should come to Perth. Our 3G coverage was designed and installed by a pirate consortium… in other words, there are lots of patches (lol).