The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
As usual, prepaid iPhone plans and “upfront” prices are available, with the old iPhone 3G now selling for AUD $759 upfront, the 16GB 3G S going for $929 and the 32GB 3G S going for $1129 upfront.
Those tempted by prepaid are also being lured by a bonus $500 “Flexible Credit [which is] a $100 bonus Flexible Credit on each of [a user’s] next 5 Prepaid Recharges on $49, $79 or $149 Flexi-caps”, while those who sign up online to a post-paid contract before the end of this month (30 June) are being offered a “bonus $100 credit”.
Pulling out all the stops, Vodafone are also using its “celebrity amabassadors including Lara Bingle and Giaan Rooney” to hand deliver some of the first iPhone 3G S online orders, in an added publicity stunt to milk the new iPhone launch phenomenon for all it’s worth, with more than 600 Vodafone stores and dealers around Australia to offer the iPhone 3G S nationally.
Vodafone partner 3 Mobile will be selling the iPhone 3G S too, from July, as previously reported, but if you're a heavy caller and texter it's hard to go past Vodafone's $114 unlimited voice/text/mms and 2GB data pricing.
All we need to know now is Telstra’s pricing, and while MacTalk have uncovered a potentially accurate leak of predictably higher Telstra pricing due to its 850MHz network coverage and faster data speeds, it’s not yet confirmed.
Either way it looks like it’s Vodafone for price and good quality, and as usual, Telstra for the best quality and data speed, but the highest price, which probably won’t change until Apple delivers an iPhone 4G that works on 850MHz, 2100MHz and the Optus/Vodafone 900MHz 3.5G standard.
Until then, the iPhone 3G S is the king of the iPhone clan and the best you can currently get. Me? I'm still using my trust original iPhone 2G, now upgraded with the rather cool iPhone OS 3.0, the operating system the iPhone should have launched with in the first place!
David Bass
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