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
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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