This is great news. Great news. Optus is now selling the Blackberry Curve 8520 on prepaid. This opens Blackberry up to a whole heap of new users, like teenage girls and.. um… teenage boys? Oh, and possibly your mum.
The phone will set you back $399 up front, and you can get on a prepaid plan for as little as $30 a month, which gets you “unlimited* data with access to BlackBerry email, IM, social networking & Internet browsing”. The asterisk means it’s not actually unlimited at all, but restricted by “fair use” policies – I know, kind of misleading, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a good deal for people wanting to develop a Blackberry addiction without a contract…
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