Friday, September 5, 2008

TelstraClear Mobile is here!

Taking a few days off sick, and finally back on my computer - noticing that TelstraClear now has introduced their mobile service!

Their "Invitation Mobile Plan" is $20 a month for 24 months (only available for TelstraClear home phone and broadband customers though) and provides a free Nokia 6275i and some good calling rates.

500 TXTs is the only cap (which sounds like Telecom $10TXT, on which TelstraClear's network runs on), so calls just run on...

... but their $0.29/min national (and national mobile) call rate is pretty good - way better than some postpaid plans from Telecom or Vodafone.

There are quite a few things that I've noted:
  • $0.20/min voicemail
  • $3/MB internet usage
0.20/min voicemail! That is rubbish now, both Telecom and Vodafone have 20c/access voicemail.

Those are pretty big things to get worried about if you use the internet a lot - $3 per megabyte is way worse than casual on Vodafone, as they charge $1/MB after the 10MB we get (but at least that's better than Telecom then, as they have $0.01/KB, which probably is restricting TelstraClear's ability to undercut that further)


All up - this sounds great for talkers (and is okay for texters) with a free Nokia and great calling rate that plenty of people would love on a mobile at only $20 per month.
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