[LINK] Telstra at it again....sort of
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at janwhitaker.com
Sat Apr 20 22:49:36 AEST 2013
[the new low cost offerings must be biting; but
note the extra break fees at the end]
Telstra To Offer Contract-Free Plans From Next Week
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First Optus had them, now we have learned that
Telstra will be offering contract-free plans from
next week. How much will it cost you to go
contractless on Telstra, you ask? Let us show you.
The new No Lock-In plans start from $40 per
month and go right up to $130 per month, and
reinstate some of the old bonus offers from the
good, old days of telecommunications. Some plans,
depending on the spend level, will get access to
Unlimited Weekends and Unlimited Nights.
The unadvertised $40 plan well why its
unadvertised in a moment offers customers $300
of eligible calls and texts and 250MB worth of
data. No bells and whistles to speak of there.
The $60 plan will include $600 worth of eligible
calls and texts, 1GB of data and unlimited text
messages. No unlimited nights or weekends to
speak of here, either. Those kick in on the higher tiered plans.
The $80 plan offers $800 worth of eligible calls
and texts, 1.5GB of data and unlimited text
messages, as well as an Unlimited Nights offer
which presumably gives you free calls between certain times in the evening.
The $100 plan gives you $900 worth of eligible
calls and texts, 2GB of data and unlimited text
messages, as well as the Unlimited Nights offer and Unlimited Weekends.
Finally, the highest tier of $130 per month gives
you an unlimited amount of eligible calls and
texts, 3GB of data and unlimited text messages,
as well as the Unlimited Nights and Unlimited Weekends offers.
Telstra is marketing these plans aggressively,
offering a data bonus offer to customers who sign
up before 1 July, which will bestow 1GB of extra
data onto their account on all plans, excluding
the unadvertised $40 plan. No mention in the
documents we were leaked how long that data bonus goes for.
The telco is keeping its $40 plan as an
unadvertised, below the line plan, meaning that
it wont be proactively offering it to customers
unless sales reps are about to lose a customer to
a competing offer from Optus, Vodafone or another
MVNO. Presumably, Telstra is looking to appear
more competitive in the face of offers from Aldi Mobile and Kogan Mobile.
No word yet on whether these plans will include
any mobile repayment option bonuses towards
helping to pay for a handset on the plan, but
seeing as how the telco is already offering what
are essentially old-school cap plans with no contracts, I highly doubt it.
Heres the full pricing schedule:
We can also reveal that Telstra will be applying
new charges to customers who opt to recontract
their service before their early termination date from tomorrow.
Not only will a customer now pay the early
termination charge for breaking a contract and
the remaining mobile repayment option amount, but
they will also be charged an extra $50 admin fee
of sorts if they break their contract outside of
the last 31 days, according to a leaked memo.
This extra $50 fee will reportedly apply to
customers on BYO handset plans and standard mobile plans.
Telstra joins Optus in offering no-contract
plans. Much like Optus, Telstras plans are quite
expensive when compared with the prepaid offers available from other MVNOs.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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