AAPT claims success for 'capped' fixed phone plan

Stuart Corner
Monday, 21 November 2005 16:15

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AAPT claims to have signed over 20,000 customers in one month for its Homechat capped residential fixed line plan.

AAPT claims that Homechat, launched in late September was the first plan to include calls from a home phone to local, national, fixed to mobile and international destinations.

It says that almost half of these customers chose the $49 plan. Paul McFadden, AAPT's general manager, consumer, claimed that the success of Homechat could be attributed to "the degree of certainty and value it provides Australian families."

Homechat has a $29 plan that includes $50 worth of local, national, fixed to mobile and international calls, excluding line rental and some call types; a $49 plan with $120 worth of calls; a $79 plan with $250 worth of calls; and a $129 plan with $1,000 worth of calls. On all plans all calls are charged at AAPT's standard rates.