This puts all the other iPhone plans from all the other carriers to shame. Dan Warne over at APC has discovered a loophole in Telstra’s cap plan structure that allows you to get 6GB of data plus a $49 cap plan for the iPhone 4 for just $78.50 over 24 months.
The reason for the loophole is that Telstra bundles both data and voice calls in their payment plans, but users who want more can remove the bundled data from their plan of choice and add on a data pack with a 50% discount.
Telstra have confirmed that these plans are legit, even though they won’t be actively promoting them. Considering Telstra’s promised that their next batch of iPhone 4 handsets would be available today, this is probably the best deal you’re going to get if you’re after a data-heavy plan.
Check out the APC article to see a more thorough breakdown of the loophole plans.
[APC]
Daniel Busoli
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 2:11 PMThis has always been the case with Telstra voice & data plans (at least for the last 6 years). When you add an additional ‘data pack’, the standadrd data and voice credit is consumed (after the data pack) at the same KB/cent rate as the data pack, rather than the standard PAYG rate. When using data, your credit is consumed data pack, included data, then voice credt.
derk
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 4:14 PMNo, what is happening here is that within Telstra’s system anyone who signs up to an iPhone, Desire or N97 mini gets 50% off their data pack. So if you put a big data pack on, you get 50% off, plus an additional $10 off because you get a $10 data pack included with the $49cap plan, its a rare occurrence.
Andrew
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 4:01 PMHow would someone actually manage to use 6GB of data in an iphone anyway…I dont know anyone who has even managed to use 1.5GB of data in 1 month!
Axil
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 8:19 PMTethering..
eldar
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:34 PMyepp. mifi like apps. jailbreak is a must.
lucas
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM@eldar on telstra tethering is free. no jailbreak required :P
Jase
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 4:11 PMTelstra just rang me as I had filled out the ‘registered my interest’ for an iphone 4 and they had allocated me one if I wished to order. I tried to explain to them that I wanted to change my data pack and that it should be 50% off etc just like the APC article and the girl had no idea what I was talking about, nor did she know how to change the plan to accommodate it. She’s going to call back tomorrow to tell me whether she can change it or not but in the meantime it looks like the only place you can get this deal is in-store.
telstra worker
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:03 PMhey jase. i watched the girl provision it when i got mine on friday.
all they do is select whatever data plan you want and then place the 50% off ontop of that.
base cap rate is $39 with minimum additional $10 for data.
so there should be no hassel she just selects whatevs data amount you wanted instead of the 500mb data and then applies the normal 50% off as per normal. too easy.
dwardz
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 9:49 PMJase if a agent is hesitant ask to speak to their team leader. It is possible but against business rules of telstra, team leaders wsill a pprove it for a sale.. I phone 4 and next g is kick ass. 3g with iphone 4 is rank, its like porn on dial up you wouldnt waste your time.
James
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 10:21 PMDoes this have to be set up at time of sale? or can it be done at a later date. Im getting my iPhone 4 tomorrow and really have no idea how much data I will use (as I have not had a iPhone before). Ideally I would like to use it for a month and see if the 500mb is enough, if not add the extra data. Is this possible at the 50% reduced rate?
Dan
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 7:04 PMI am currently paying $100 a month (prepaid) for wireless broadband through telstra (I work in outback queensland alot), so the decision for this was easy. Went down to Telstra today, asked them about it, talked to the manager/team leader and they okayed it. By dumb luck they had a iphone 4 in store, iphone 4 32 gb and 9gb of data for $98 a month. Rad.
charles
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 3:15 PMgoodafternoon all,today, after waiting for my iphone ordered in mitchell cntr darwin,i was informed upon showing the sales person this very thread,that i was unable to break up the plan in this way,she checked with the manager who said it would revert to 1gig after the business manager audited all of the months sales,i drive a roadtrain to darwin from sydney therefore telstra is my only option,can someone kindly post what store and to whom they spoke to regarding this arrangement,thanks