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.
Vodafone is offering its mobile customers unlimited access to selected social networking, email and IM sites in what appears to be its latest response to 3's X-Series offerings.
Vodafone Live! customers can pay: $5 per month to get unlimited access to Windows Live Hotmail and Messenger and Yahoo!7 Mail and Messenger; $8 per month get unlimited access to YouTube, eBay, MySpace and RSVP; or $9.95 per month for all of these.
3's X-Series offering, launched in March 2007, offers unlimited access to e eBay, Google Search, MSN Hotmail and Yahoo!7 Mail and Yahoo! & Windows Live Messenger. All but the entry level plan also include unlimited access to 3's equivalent of Vodafone Live!, Planet 3. Shortly after the launch of X-Series, Vodafone cut the prices for its data plans .
X-Series currently comes in four variants: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum at $12, $20, $30 and $40 per month, all of which include a general data quota that can be used for any Internet access (100MB, 500MB, 1Gb and 2GB respectively), as well as a generous allowance of Skype-to-Skype calling minutes (200, 1000, 2000, 4000).
For general Internet access from their mobile, Vodafone customers would have to pay $29.95, $49.95, $99.95 and $139.95 for 100M, 300M, 1GB and 2GB respectively. So the X Series offering seems much better value (Vodafone has lower data rates on 12 or 24 month contracts but only for access via a dedicated data modem, not from a cellphone). However the downside of 3 is its limited coverage: major metro areas only, outside of which hefty data charges apply.
David Bass
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