australians: confirmed optus 3gs plans!!!

[chrisp92]

before today some fakes have been going around the net about optus's plans...

but optus announced the real plans today. there will be NO prepaid iphone 3gs at launch day, however one will be introduced.

for more info see this gizmodo article on the new plans.

this has been confirmed by optus and is on their website here.

 

[Chundles]

Ergh, pretty much the same as last time.

Those monthly handset repayments are MASSIVE! Where'd that come from? You're paying $480 for the 3G iPhone over a 24 month plan.

And NO FREE 3GS on ANY plan? WTF?

 

[chrisp92]

umm the 3gs is free on a timeless 24 month plan...

 

[sammich]

So there aren't any post-paid contracts (non-cap)?

 

[Chundles]

umm the 3gs is free on a timeless 24 month plan...

Yeah.... But at what cost? What cost?

Won't somebody think of the children!!

 

[Chundles]

So there aren't any post-paid contracts (non-cap)?

Not yet, they're coming "later" with the pre-paid prices and the Mac version of eTax from the ATO so I don't need to load Vista to do my tax return.

Oh and Christmas.

 

[chrisp92]

australia is the only place you can get a free iphone 3gs

in america they must pay for it and then go on a $99ish plan..

and the total cost, as quoted by optus is 2,735.76.
a good deal considering what you get.

 

[PNutt06]

Do you guys know if these plans also include data? Or is it just your standard voice plan?

Being jobless I'm not really look towards paying extra for data.

And apparently they've changed from charging you every 60sec to every 30secs. It was in this ITWire review/article/thingy.

The new Optus iPhone capped plans are based on its recently revamped capped plans (when Optus sneaked in an effective price rise by changing the charging interval to 60 seconds from 30 seconds). They are identical to these plans, except that iPhone users get included data.

iTWire

 

[sammich]

Do you guys know if these plans also include data? Or is it just your standard voice plan?

Being jobless I'm not really look towards paying extra for data.

And apparently they've changed from charging you every 60sec to every 30secs. It was in this ITWire review/article/thingy.


iTWire

Optus has been charging by the 30 second block since I started caring about my phone bill. Which is probably at least 5 years. All the plans include some amount of data, but you'll need to look it up. But based on the old plans at the 19, 49, 59, 79 etc, it goes like this: 100MB, 250MB, 250MB, 500MB ottomh