Virgin’s announced new plans with an element of self-tailored usage, whether your needs are for heavy texts or heavy data usage.
The “Pick & Mix” plans offer a base level of $19 (depending on whether you’re bundling a phone or just going for a SIM-only contract) for a relatively meagre $19 worth of call credit and 100MB of data. So far, so ordinary. Add some funds into the account on a month by month basis and they can be mixed up a little more, as per below.
There’s the potential for some reasonable value there — a $29 plan with 2GB of data isn’t to be sneezed at, for example — but it strikes me that, rather like pick and mix lollies, if you wanted a lot you could end up spending a lot more than you originally planned for, and a more complete yet fixed contract might be better value. [Virgin Mobile]
Nathan
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:28 AMI think $39 with 2GB and unlimited SMS would do me nicely.
With the rumoured iPhone messaging app to circumvent SMS that might come down.
Daniel
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 2:53 PMThat’s not a rumour, it’s an advertised feature:
http://www.apple.com/au/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
ballinor
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 12:27 PMI assume base is the start plan – $19
Then add Voice – $30
Add SMS – $10
Then 2GB Data – $10
That’s $69
Not competitive compared to the $39/40 on offer from Amaysim, Red Bull and Boost
Not even competitive to Vodafone Infinite ($45)
Vic
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7:40 PMSounds great but pretty useless if you cannot make calls