6GB for Telstra iPhone 4s on the cheap?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 00:55

Your IT - Mobility

Telstra has started really upping the ante against its iPhone 4 telco competitors, offering up to 6GB of data at prices far better than its advertised iPhone 4 plans.

A report from APCMag.com's Dan Warne has shown how some savvy Telstra customers have squeezed a much better deal from Telstra for iPhone 4 data.

With Telstra previously only offering 6GB of data on its most expensive advertised iPhone 4 plan of $129, the stark reality is that Telstra is happy to sell you 6GB of data for a much better rate.

More data for your iPhone means you can do more with it.

Download, watch and upload more YouTube videos, do more Google mapping, send and receive more emails, watch more France 24 or other video apps which aren't part of any unmetered access, use download apps to download stuff to your iPhone that you can transfer to your PC later, download more apps in general, do more Skype-ing or Fringing, listen to more Internet radio, do more remote control of your home or work computer, and lots, lots more!

But with Telstra's cheapest iPhone 4 plan at $49 only offering 500MB of data, it certainly pays to see what else a telco offers, especially seeing as with Telstra, they are clearly offering more.

The APCMag article linked above has more detail, as well as links to Whirlpool forums where Telstra customers have outlined how they discovered Telstra's better data offers.

As noted in APCMag.com, it's possible to take advantage of being able to separate your voice plan from your data plan and take advantage of a special 50% off deal for data, and you can get a $49 voice plan (which translates to $400 worth of calls at whatever Telstra charges per 30 seconds, and whatever it charges as a call flagfall) and then bolt on 1GB of data for a total of $58.50 per month (for both voice and data), bolt on 3GB of data for a total of $63.50 per month, or bolt on 6GB of data for a total of $78.50 per month for voice and data.

The whole thing shows that Telstra knows its lead in having Australia's best 3.5G network is under threat by competitors who are improving their networks.

I noted in a previous article that Optus had a 'crappy network', which was rebutted by an Optus spokesperson who explained that $2b had been spent improving its network, base stations had doubled and analyst firm thought it was a lot better, too.

 

But is it?

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