Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 08 July 2008 23:04
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Well, despite the fact that Vodafone Australia has not
officially set any iPhone plans, our New Zealand cousins have full
knowledge of what Vodafone NZ plans to charge.
Unlike the myriad
Optus plans, of which there seem to be about five thousand different options, Vodafone NZ has gone for a far simpler
iPhone pricing structure, but simpler doesn't seem to be cheaper!
There are three plans, with the following prices in NZ dollars (which ends up being slightly cheaper in Australian dollars).
The plans are the iPhone 250, the iPhone 500 and the iPhone 1GB plan,
with these figures referring to the amount of data that is included
with each plan per month, with the plans being 24 month, 2 year plans.
These cost NZD $80, $130 or $250 per month and come with 120, 250 or 600 minutes of voice calls per month, respectively.
In Australian dollars, that is $63, $102 or $197 per month.
Each plan comes with 600 included text messages.
Additional costs of calls once you go beyond the allotted included
minutes is charged at NZ $0.69, $0.55 and $0.53 per minute, for each
plan, respectively.
In Australian dollars this works out at $0.54, $0.43 and $0.42
respectively and it would seem as though the prices are indeed being
charged per minute and not per 30 seconds.
Additional text messages are being charged at NZ 20c each after the 600 text messages are reach.
Additional data usage will be charged at NZ $0.10, $0.10 and $0.03 per
megabyte – not per kilobyte, which is means an additional gigabyte of
usage will cost NZ $102.40 on the first two plans and $30.72 on the
most expensive plan.
The cost of an 8GB iPhone 3G will be $549, $449 and $199 for the three
plans respectively, while the 16GB model will cost $699, $599 and $349.
These prices work out to be, in AUD for the 8GB model: $432, $353 and $156 and for the 16GB model: $551, $472 and $275.
To buy the iPhone 3G outright from Vodafone New Zealand will cost NZD
$979 for the 8GB model and $1129 for the 16GB model. In Australian
dollars this works out to be $771 and $890.
So, are these prices any good, or not? How does it compare with similar Optus plans? Please read on to page 3.
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