The most hyped mobile phone in history went on sale in Australia today.
I’d hate to be a phone manufacturer that was competing with it.
You can buy it from Telstra, Optus, or Vodaphone.
If you got it from Telstra, you’d be able to take full advantage of the speed of their Next G network for checking your email, watching movies or YouTube, or visiting websites.
You’d also be paying through the nose if you actually wanted to do these things.
Because Telstra’s iPhone plan only gives you 5 (thats FIVE) megabytes of data per month. (And each extra megabyte will cost you $2)
Which is totally bloody useless for anyone using the internet.
(**UPDATE Nov08 : Telstra has recently added some cheaper bandwidth plans)
Of course, a range of data plans are available. For an extra $59 per month, you get another 200 megabytes of data. Still not a lot. Add this to around $60 for the phone plan, and it’s a very expensive status symbol
Vodafone offers the phone on a $69 per month plan, which gives you $310 worth of calls and text, plus 250 megabytes of data. (You also have to pay $189 up front for the phone)
Optus is probably the best deal, with $79 per month for a plan that gives you $550 worth of talk and text, and 700 megabytes of data.
It’s important to remember to check out the contracts associated with these deals to make sure that you know EXACTLY what you are signing up for.
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