Sodding off in action. That second pre-paid that they put onto a monthly plan without notice was downright deceitful.
How's the Aussie comms market?
Will you be able to sod off without it being to costly.
Not great, competition-wise. When the original 'upgrade' moved me from $15 to $25, I found the lowest priced across the market was $25, so nowhere to go. However, I'll be moving now to spite them.
This, which is far more than I need, because I'm not someone who lives on their cell phone. In fact I detest the thing, having spent 20 years at an IT helpdesk. Really only want a phone to get my 2FA SMS's 🙂
Anyway, the only reason I didn't bail when they upped me was because I had over 1TB of data banked, which is a great backup if the fibre ISP went down. The phone is a VERY handy emergency hotspot.
Doing the currency conversion, by UK standard its not a terrible deal but if you are not using the data and cant get cheaper then that is a bit shit.
You would pay more with the big networks in UK but you could get 100gb per month on the network I am on for that price.
You would love the deal I put my old dad on. £48 gbp prepaid for the year. Unlimited text and calls and half a gig data a month. So £4 gb a month.
(1/2)
@Sheep_Overboard
I currently have 2 SIMs.
One SIM in my 4G router is unlimited for £18gbp - I usually use about 300-400 GB per month as I use it for home internet.
My other SIM for my phone is £6.30 per month for 8GB but I am on Black
Friday deal that gives me 30GB for 15 months for the same price as long as I renew each month.
Both SIMs allow tethering, have no speed restrictions and unlimited calls/ sms (2/2)
Yes Raymond, I would! My second phone (that they 'upgraded' to monthly without even asking, along with the first) was a $10 prepaid for a year, but not frills, everything would cost. Except for receiving SMS 2FA that was it's purpose.
I'm on a second telco, TPG (all our telcos are retailers for the national broadband NBN fibre) with fibre internet. I had two SIMs from them at $1/month each, for the SMSs and just because. But a year ago they killed them off. So nothing's cheap in Aus if you want barebones.
@Sheep_Overboard
Thats sucks.
The UK networks a few years ago got rid of a lot of their cheap pay as you go deals.
My dads went from being 3p per min for calls up to 35p for calls via two price rises in 18 months. I did warn him about the rises and offer to get him a better deal and he wasn't too bothered until a 30 minute call to the doctors cost him a tenner. I then got a call from him wanting the cheap SIM. 🙂
Luckily there is enough competition for cheap low end deals at moment.
@Sheep_Overboard
The UK has 4 networks, soon to be three as two have recently merged. You can contract with them directly or go with one of the lots MVNO's that run on those networks.
The company I am with is actually an MVNO owned by one of the big Networks and runs on their network but is still a separate business. The crazy thing is that you get the same deals at about 40% off the parent companies prices and no contracts as it a monthly pre-pay and in 5 years I have yet to get price rise.
Yes, the smaller telcos who can build their own infra (or part thereof) can save heaps. After I kill off my Optus (Amaysim) accounts, I'll go looking carefully again. But it's all a big time-waster. I had it sorted, twice, and twice the telcos removed the accounts I'd settled on.
Sigh.
Raymond Russell
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