Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Optus has unveiled its pricing plans for the new iPhone 3G S ahead of the new phone going on sale on Friday. Its headline offer is a 32GB version at $0 on a $99 per month plan that offers unlimited calls and text and 1.5GB of mobile Internet browsing on a 24 month contract, but with some interesting limitations.
The offer is available only to "consumer customers as defined by Optus" and the offer "applies to standard personal calls and text and are not to be used for commercial purposes."
For another $30 per month customers can get 2.0GB of Internet data, unlimited domestic MMS and unlimited voicemail. The offers, however are available only until 31 July. Normally to get the $0 phone users on the $99 plan users must pay another $14.99 per month for an additional 500MB of data above the standard 1GB offered on that plan.
The new Optus iPhone capped plans are based on its recently revamped capped plans (when Optus sneaked in an effective price rise by changing the charging interval to 60 seconds from 30 seconds). They are identical to these plans, except that iPhone users get included data.
Plan prices range from $19 per month for $50 worth of calls and 10MB of data to $79 per month for $610 worth of calls and 1GB of data. In addition all plans come with a similar amount of value for calls to Optus mobiles and "selected" Optus fixed lines.
Call rates however differ substantially: from 92 cents per minute on the $19 plan to 78 cents on the $79 plans. With the 35 cent flagfall and the per minute charging, this means that user on the $19 plan would burn through their $50 worth of credit in well under a month by making only one call per day of between one and two minutes in length.
Prices for the new iPhone on these plans range from $27 per month for the 16GB version ($34 for 32GB) on the $19 per month plan to $0 for either version on the $99 plan and above. Phone-only prices for the new iPhones have not been announced.
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