Telstra has managed to take a fair chunk of wind out of Vodafone’s Nexus One announcement yesterday by announcing it’s dropping the price of the HTC Desire to $0 on a $49 cap over 24 months, or $30 less than the Nexus One on Voda.
Telstra announces new aggressive pricing for HTC Desire. To be available for $0 upfront on Telstra’s $49 Cap Plan from tomorrow.
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The $49 plan will include the handset, plus 200MB of data and $400 worth of national calls, SMS and MMS over 24 months. For Telstra, that’s an exceptionally good deal. It should definitely swing some potential Nexus One buyers from Vodafone…
Cameron
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10:57 AMIf only that included 1Gb of data instead of 200mb it would be perfect.
PhuzZy
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:07 AMTelco’s need to LOOK at the Smartphone plans big time.
who uses $400 worth of phone calls/SMS (no one I know) Drop the calls and ADD DATA………….
Dan
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:31 AMI would rather pay telstra $70 bucks for a 6 gig pack then get a bill for $400 of phone calls
ben
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:13 AMhmmm considering i bought one 2 days ago on 79?….
Simon
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 2:35 PMi know how gay is it. i got one last week and i am paying $60 per month…..
mavrick
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 7:45 PMSimon, if u are on MRO option, u can get it cancelled and get a subsidised one as well!
DONAR
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 12:49 AMGo in and (politely) make a fuss. They’re going to value keeping a customer happy within the cooling off period more than pissing you off…depending on the Telstra store.
Flame
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:13 AMThat’s very good. Might get the missus on to this as she needs a new phone.
Kieran
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:57 AMmaybe not as good as virgin mobile’s 16Gb iPhone 3G fir $0 on a $35 rollover cap over 24 months..
matt
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 4:05 PMplease tell me you mean 3GS… I wouldn’t accept a 3G for free at this stage…
Bigmac
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 12:12 PMIf you want the Nexus One on a $49 cap, its $10/mth handset repayments, but you get 500MB of data and free Voda2Voda and Voda2Three calls.
Just ordered mine.
xvart
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 12:40 PMwow now thats info I wanted, I’m on 3 and the wife needs a new phone
boc
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 1:30 PMTelstra’s just trying to match it by removing the handset repayments.
With the HTC Desire $49 plan you get that bumped up to 500MB of data if you pay an extra $10 for a data upgrade.
Effectively making it the same deal. Except for the free calls.
Bigmac
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 3:20 PMIf you need any more info about what the current happenings are with it, Whirlpool has been pretty good.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1442242.html
The N1 hasn’t appeared on the Vodafone website yet, and half of the operators don’t know about it when you call. If Vodafone decide this arvo to make it free on the $49 cap I’m going to be a little peeved…
Booka
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 12:59 PMYou can also add an extra 1gb to the voda plan (making it $69) for $450 worth of calls and 1.5gb of data. Mmm data.
Ollie
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 12:54 PMYet they won’t look after their existing customers and encourage them to upgrade.
They wanted $500 odd out of me so I could end my current $79 contract and get a new one with a Desire… go figure.
And I have to pay extra for data that gets included on the new plans.
maverick
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 7:47 PMHow many months of your current contract are remaining??
bitbot
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM“Chunk of wind”?!
David Anderton
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 2:56 PMthe new Virgin smart cap plans have amazing data
Tristan Scott
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 4:20 PMI just switched from Virgin to Telstra, not only for the Desire (I was quite happy with my Hero), but because using data on Virgin is unbearable.
As a long-time data user, I’ve found that data access on the Optus network has been very poor since the launch of the iPhone. I switched to Virgin 6 months ago for the cheaper plans, and found that my data on Virgin was even worse than Optus. I consistently lost connectivity for periods of 5-10 minutes, I frequently got cryptic “408 Payment Required” error messages that intercept my browsing, and even using a 7.2 mbit HSDPA-compliant phone (Nokia E72), the fastest download transfer speed I’d seen is well under 1 mbit, on a good day with a prevailing wind.
Now that Telstra offers somewhat reasonable data plans, I’ve walked with my wallet, and am enjoying mobile browsing faster than my piddly ADSL2 plan at home.
Rahul Khanna
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 8:22 PMBrilliant. Dad just got this on the $49 + $12/month MBR on Sunday.
Shafted.
Daniel McDade
Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 7:05 AMI got 1 each for the missus & myself on the 30th May & are now stuck paying the extra $17 odd per handset each on the old $49 cap. I rang Telstra to complain but they wouldn’t budge & drop the handset instalments. I was looking at moving my home phone & internet to Telstra as well, but with that kind of service or total lack of, they can jam it!
Grant Watt
Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 12:08 PMI’ve had my htc Desire for almost two months and can tell you it is a wonderful phone. The google voice search means you can pick the phone up, tell it what you want to searach for and have the google results in less than ten seconds. This is the result of the excellent google voice recognition which is almost 100% accurate (I kid you not) and the Telstra network (which is always reliable and fast). Like someone here said, Telstra NextG is often much better than most people’s ADSL.