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Our Blogs Core Dump Vodafone cuts iPhone minimum spend - but where's the data?
Our Blogs Core Dump Vodafone cuts iPhone minimum spend - but where's the data? | Vodafone cuts iPhone minimum spend - but where's the data? |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 15 July 2008 | |
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That $49 provides enough credit to cover 114 three-minute voice calls or 1240 SMSes. The catch is that there's no data included in the plan. If you want mobile data, you have the choice of paying $1 per five-minute block, or bolting on 100M of data for $11.95. What makes us laugh is that Vodafone talks in terms of "just $11.95"! Apart from this being a ludicrously high rate for mobile data (remember, 3 charges $15 for 1G to a wireless dongle, and offers 1G for $30 per month to selected handsets), a comparison with the Optus $49 cap shows that the latter provides a very slightly smaller amount of voice and SMS per month, but also includes 250M of data. As usual, you still have to pay for the iPhone 3G itself with Vodafone's $49 plan. The 8G model is $242 upfront, or $363 for the 16G version. If you want to spread the cost, repayments are $10.09 or $15.13 per month. How does that compare with Optus? Badly. On the Optus $49 cap, the iPhone 3G costs $7 (8G) or $12 (16G) over 24 months. But it's not that we think Optus is perfect - please read on to find out why. |
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