Up and coming mobile operator AmaySIM knows that Australians love their cap plans, so has added to its pay-as-you-go offerings with a $40 a month cap plan that looks pretty tough to beat.
For $40 a month you get unlimited national talk, text and MMS, unlimited access to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, eBay and MySpace, plus 4GB of data to use every month. What’s missing is credit for calling 1300, 1800 and international numbers, although if you make a lot of those calls there are better plans on other carriers for you anyway.
Excess data is charged at 5c/MB, or you can add on a GB for $10. Throw in the fact that data can be used for tethering (altough apparently the personal WiFi hotspot doesn’t currently work on iOS devices), and this is easily one of the best cap plan deals on the market. So long as you live in an Optus coverage area, of course.
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Kaboda
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 12:37 PMWould be hard to go over 4gigs if your not tethering.
Sounds like a good deal.
Barry
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 12:54 PMIsn’t Amaysim just another company of Optus like VirginMobile (Optus bought them I believe)? If that’s true then why doesn’t Optus offer the same deal?
matt
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 5:40 PMbecause optus is better known. they attract the know nothing clients that don’t do any research, and people who want the ‘safety’ of a ‘big company’ (its an old people thing)
and they can get away with charging these… err… morons, what ever they like.
(ok, that was a bit harsh, but you get the idea)
Potatoman
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:01 PMAmaysim does use the Optus network but I’m pretty sure they’re different companies.
Flame
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 1:03 PMI’m tempted to try them! Currently I pay Virgin $29/month for only 1GB + $50 credit…
Gabriel
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 1:44 PMTPG also uses the Optus network for mobiles and has great month-to-month deals. No contract. Especially if you have TPG broadband too and bundle it. Then i speak to some of my friends that are on $120 pm plans for 24 months and just can’t believe it.
Ken
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 2:43 PMAmaysim… race… hehehe.
Troy
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3:05 PMeewwww optus………..enough said
Siby
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3:29 PMThen which network do you suggest using Troy??? Vodafone? which is pretty much on par with Optus, Or Teltra which costs a lot more
Sicarius123
Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 5:43 PMI had to go through the TIO to get out of that awful call dropping Optus.
No other carrier is worthwhile having in Australia except Telstra.
Ratty
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3:28 PMIs it still the case that on the Optus network they don’t allow data and voice at the same time? I setup tethering for a mate late last year only to find data gets interrupted when there is a phone call. They then said this was standard on their network.
Frosty
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3:56 PMNot true, I use data and voice at the same time
Sicarius123
Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 5:43 PMThat’s an intermittent issue when you have bad coverage.
So with Optus it’s nearly all the time hahaha.
alex
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 6:54 PMThey should do what vodafone do and give you $40 of credit for 13 and 18 numbers.
Valda
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:52 PMAm very interested in signing up with amaysim but don’t know if I can get coverage in Laidley Qld. Can anyone help please.