Haven't tried with prepaid, but you WILL need to jailbreak it first, depending on where your phone comes from - if US, you get an AT&T sim with the package, I got mine jailbroken already (I lost my other phone thus the purchase, so no time to test and try jailbreak myself) someone else may be able to answer that one
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Haven't tried with prepaid, but you WILL need to jailbreak it first, depending on where your phone comes from - if US, you get an AT&T sim with the package, I got mine jailbroken already (I lost my other phone thus the purchase, so no time to test and try jailbreak myself) someone else may be able to answer that one
There is something very important to note with the iPhone, compared to all the other phones Telstra sell that you can have a data pack with. All the other models allow tethering with a computer, allowing the computer to share its data connection. The Hiptop like the iPhone doesn't allow this and is sold with a specific data plan, unlimited for $30 including free SMS MMS email I'M and web browsing. The iPhone will be the same, it will have its own specific data plan that will probably be more expensive but will offer a very generous data allowance. They simply don't want their phones to compete with their data cards, but as the iPhone doesn't allow tethering this is not the case.
Mark my words, if iPhone comes to Telstra it will have specific data plan which compared to the current data packs will be very good value... I'm imagining something like $30 unlimited but not including the SMS that the Hiptop plan does.
Mark my words, if iPhone comes to Telstra it will have specific data plan which compared to the current data packs will be very good value... I'm imagining something like $30 unlimited but not including the SMS that the Hiptop plan does.
Newspaper carrying the story with interview with Sensis
http://www.theage.com.au/news/bizte...r-iphone-launch/2008/03/14/1205126187204.html
Summary: Sensis doesn't know which provider, but are gearing up to provide mobile applications for the device.
-- Dan =)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/bizte...r-iphone-launch/2008/03/14/1205126187204.html
Summary: Sensis doesn't know which provider, but are gearing up to provide mobile applications for the device.
-- Dan =)
Say the iphone comes to Australia and is exclusively to Telstra. That wont make any difference to the rest of us on other carriers right? I have already bought an iphone unlocked, jailbreaked etc and using it on the Vodafone network. The release of a telstra iphone wouldnt make any difference to me right? (I suppose unless it was 3g). I find I am mostly always in wireless network areas and do my downloads there
I'm so happy that the iPhone is officially coming to Australia! I was just about to give up and buy an iPod Touch . Does anyone know exactly when it will hit the Aussie shores? I'm guessing around June/July.
. Does anyone know exactly when it will hit the Aussie shores? I'm guessing around June/July.
I can just imagine whoever the phone is with that it will be on some ridiculously high plan and you will have to pay per month
Multi Carriers
I have a friend who has an Australian model of iPhone, who is high up in a phone company and he says the iphone will go to all major carriers because there is only 20 million people in the country, so 1 carrier would limit their marketshare. Don't worry about it, I just hope he's not b***sh**ing.
I have a friend who has an Australian model of iPhone, who is high up in a phone company and he says the iphone will go to all major carriers because there is only 20 million people in the country, so 1 carrier would limit their marketshare. Don't worry about it, I just hope he's not b***sh**ing.
It was just launched in Ireland (4m people) and Austria (8m people) with only one carrier...
I agree with all those comments earlier about this just being a way for Sensis to stay competitive with searches. They probably know that there are already a lot of unlocked iPhones in Australia & want to jump on the opportunity.
If the iPhone is with Telstra, it's got to be on a plan like their Hiptop data plan, otherwise I'll be sticking with the $10 per month for 300mb slow, slow Virgin GPRS.
Gotta feel sorry for those Canadians..
EDIT: I just finished reading the comments and see that baxterbrittle beat me to the Hiptop reference. Totally agree with you.
If the iPhone is with Telstra, it's got to be on a plan like their Hiptop data plan, otherwise I'll be sticking with the $10 per month for 300mb slow, slow Virgin GPRS.
China, Japan, Timbuktu, Lithuania...
Every country but freakin' Canada
Gotta feel sorry for those Canadians..
EDIT: I just finished reading the comments and see that baxterbrittle beat me to the Hiptop reference. Totally agree with you.
Morning Guys...
I'm pretty sure I read a news article a few weeks ago that said that Apple would either have to give up its revenue-sharing, phone-locking, contract-obligating deals that it strikes with mobile carriers (Seems highly unlikely....)
Or get Australian courts to allow it to contravene, blatantly, some of the country's most basic and important anti-monopoly, market-competition laws.
The article then went on to say that the likelihood of Apple giving up the revenue-sharing agreement was very small, as analysts believed it was too profitable for the mac-maker. The likelihood of Australian courts pulling a 360 degree turn on basic market legislation to grant monopoly rights to a foreign company and any mobile carrier was almost too small to measure.
End of the day, these analysts could see no way for the iPhone to be introduced in Australia.... :S
Your thoughts? Have their been any updates regarding this matter?
I'm pretty sure I read a news article a few weeks ago that said that Apple would either have to give up its revenue-sharing, phone-locking, contract-obligating deals that it strikes with mobile carriers (Seems highly unlikely....)
Or get Australian courts to allow it to contravene, blatantly, some of the country's most basic and important anti-monopoly, market-competition laws.
The article then went on to say that the likelihood of Apple giving up the revenue-sharing agreement was very small, as analysts believed it was too profitable for the mac-maker. The likelihood of Australian courts pulling a 360 degree turn on basic market legislation to grant monopoly rights to a foreign company and any mobile carrier was almost too small to measure.
End of the day, these analysts could see no way for the iPhone to be introduced in Australia.... :S
Your thoughts? Have their been any updates regarding this matter?
lol yea right
ive been on telstra before, they dont give you any free internet, they charge you for every single little thing.. its disgusting. i wish that australia would finally catchup with the rest of the world (like how UK has FREE UNLIMITED access)
grrrr
i feel so bad for australia, if there wasnt so much oceanic piracy in malaysia things wouldnt be so expensive down there.
Telstra are the absolute biggest scum bag w**kers in the history of low down, mismanaged, brain dead monkey headed half witted last century up their own back sides losers including Hitler.
Saying that is not cutting it - I'm really holding back.
They are the worst company in the history of bad... I've dealt with phone companies in third world countries with INFINITELY better service, customer relations and "fixing of problems!"
If Telstra gets the iPhone that is the one consideration that may cause me to NOT get it seriously (and that's saying something).
I really hope Apple does not give it to Telstra.
But I was speaking with an Optus rep and she was running down the iPhone big time like it was yesterdays news, to the point that it sounded like they had already been prepped in regards to "that" little deal...
Oh Telstra how I hate thee... what enormous losers you are!
Saying that is not cutting it - I'm really holding back.
They are the worst company in the history of bad... I've dealt with phone companies in third world countries with INFINITELY better service, customer relations and "fixing of problems!"
If Telstra gets the iPhone that is the one consideration that may cause me to NOT get it seriously (and that's saying something).
I really hope Apple does not give it to Telstra.
But I was speaking with an Optus rep and she was running down the iPhone big time like it was yesterdays news, to the point that it sounded like they had already been prepped in regards to "that" little deal...
Oh Telstra how I hate thee... what enormous losers you are!
telstra really are losers, it's not funny
although, don't knock hitler so much....apart from his desire to conquer europe and penchant for genocide, he was a very good leader - he built the autobahns during the great depression remember
that said, the point of apple choosing not to release the iPhone in Oz is a distinct possibility.........
encourages me to import one even more
what pisses me off most of all, is how, more than a year after the announcement, apple have released the iPhone in only half a dozen countries (and ireland before canada! that makes no sense)...i start to think that apple are trying to use the iPhone as an ace up it's sleeve in certain countries
EDIT: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/sensis-gears-up-for-iphone-launch/2008/03/14/1205126187204.html
since when is telstra ahead of the pack in customer service?
maybe they have won the iPhone
although, don't knock hitler so much....apart from his desire to conquer europe and penchant for genocide, he was a very good leader - he built the autobahns during the great depression remember
kiwi031 said:
that said, the point of apple choosing not to release the iPhone in Oz is a distinct possibility.........
encourages me to import one even more
what pisses me off most of all, is how, more than a year after the announcement, apple have released the iPhone in only half a dozen countries (and ireland before canada! that makes no sense)...i start to think that apple are trying to use the iPhone as an ace up it's sleeve in certain countries
EDIT: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/sensis-gears-up-for-iphone-launch/2008/03/14/1205126187204.html
the article said:
since when is telstra ahead of the pack in customer service?
maybe they have won the iPhone
are theyr any aussies here that actually like telstra lol?? i think the ONLY person that likes them is that trio CEO fella.
i would much rather optus as the contract holders.. but they dont have much better deals either. come to think of it, nobody does!!!! (compared to other countries anyway)
i would much rather optus as the contract holders.. but they dont have much better deals either. come to think of it, nobody does!!!! (compared to other countries anyway)
telstra is one of the better networks 'round here, even if they are more expensive.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4729361#post4729361
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4729750#post4729750
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4723719#post4723719
I've had a demo iPhone from Telstra for sometime now (to do with my work), as I said at the start of January Telstra has had the exclusive deal for the iPhone for sometime now and they are still trying to get the phone to work with their NextG network.
The initial information I heard was that Telstra expected to have it released by the end of Feb if they could get the unit to work satisfactory with NextG (it hasn't been released so it's very safe to say it hasn't work to Telstra's standard....)
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4729750#post4729750
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4723719#post4723719
I've had a demo iPhone from Telstra for sometime now (to do with my work), as I said at the start of January Telstra has had the exclusive deal for the iPhone for sometime now and they are still trying to get the phone to work with their NextG network.
The initial information I heard was that Telstra expected to have it released by the end of Feb if they could get the unit to work satisfactory with NextG (it hasn't been released so it's very safe to say it hasn't work to Telstra's standard....)
ezekielrage_99, what do you do for work? I'm probably being a bit naive, but I find it hard to believe that Apple has demo iPhones out all over the place, so you'd have to be working somewhere pretty special. What you're saying about Telstra being the network that the iPhone will be with is pretty much common sense at this point.
We can be pretty certain that Apple will go with the provider than can reach the most people. Telstra advertise that they reach 98% of the Australian population. I don't think there are many people left out there who don't think the iPhone will be exclusive to Telstra. Hardly anybody likes Telstra, but they're definitely the most likely carrier to have the iPhone.
And we can also be pretty sure that the iPhone will come out in Australia with 3G. Although your estimate of by the end of February doesn't make much sense considering that the 2G iPhone has just been released in Ireland & Austria (March 14, 2008). Personally, I think we have at least 3-4 months before the iPhone is released in Australia. (Now that I've said that, we'll probably have it in about 2 weeks. Oh well...)
We can be pretty certain that Apple will go with the provider than can reach the most people. Telstra advertise that they reach 98% of the Australian population. I don't think there are many people left out there who don't think the iPhone will be exclusive to Telstra. Hardly anybody likes Telstra, but they're definitely the most likely carrier to have the iPhone.
And we can also be pretty sure that the iPhone will come out in Australia with 3G. Although your estimate of by the end of February doesn't make much sense considering that the 2G iPhone has just been released in Ireland & Austria (March 14, 2008). Personally, I think we have at least 3-4 months before the iPhone is released in Australia. (Now that I've said that, we'll probably have it in about 2 weeks. Oh well...)
There are actually demo iPhones out and about down here - my cousin got to play with an iPhone (admittedly uncharged - so handle is probably a better term) at one of the larger Australian mobile phone retail chains a couple of months ago. Apparently, they received demo models a little while ago in preparation for a launch into the market (by Telstra if memory serves), but the deal went pear-shaped for some reason and didn't happen. He's not connected to the industry in any way, he was just talking to the sales guy about the iPhone and was asked if he wanted to see one.
And for those of you not in the antipodes curious about the general feelings about Telstra - read some of the comments published in a Sydney Morning Herald blog yesterday on the possibility of the iPhone being exclusively locked to Telstra (which is, as someone pointed out earlier in the topic, likely in contravention of the Trade Practices Act):
http://blogs.smh.com.au/gadgetsonthego/archives/2008/03/iphone_locked_to_telstra_next.html
I used to work with a group that provides information services online for Sensis (or Senslis as it's most commonly referred to). The iPhone was provided as a development tool for use so we could get data feeds working correctly (and still not happening....yay.... which was half the reason I've moved onto bigger and better things).
Also the other big hold up is under current Australian Telecommunications law it is illegal to be "locked" to one network with any communication device, this is another hold up with the iPhone being release in Australia along with the very expensive and poorly implemented 3G network NextG.
If this is true I would be happier, this was the case in germany and france I believe and over there you can legally buy an unlocked version.
I hope not Telstra because ...
I actually don't care who carries it really. I have a preference, but lets face facts, its going to be expensive whoever has it.
I just hope its not Telstra because of this:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/...o-your-knitting/2007/02/15/1171405363291.html
They just didn't get it when it was launched, so they don't deserve it now.
If its not Telstra then you can almost garuantee they will drive whoever does get it to the courts citing the Trade Practices Act or something - pretty much their method of operation lately.
I actually don't care who carries it really. I have a preference, but lets face facts, its going to be expensive whoever has it.
I just hope its not Telstra because of this:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/...o-your-knitting/2007/02/15/1171405363291.html
They just didn't get it when it was launched, so they don't deserve it now.
If its not Telstra then you can almost garuantee they will drive whoever does get it to the courts citing the Trade Practices Act or something - pretty much their method of operation lately.