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Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers, aus.comms
Subject Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017
Date 2017-10-11 11:54 +1100
Message-ID <f458fbF7eihU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"SolomonW" <SolomonW@citi.com> wrote in message 
news:15481oui0su3p$.1710wutj114c6.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:37:42 +1100, FMurtz wrote:
>
>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:gqdibclfttcvc5l62q19g8nctn84bp7df1@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 08:09:30 +1100, "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:hsvgbchbl0be435m7uoerge8rb8079jl8j@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:11:46 +1100, "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:ehkjgjFrunoU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:58b4cbe8$0$32630$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:o927cd$uk9$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>>>>>>>>>> In aus.computers Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Max <max@val.morgan> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't understand how Amaysim won the Best-Value Prepaid Low
>>>>>>>>>>>> Usage Mobile Plan 2017 for its Pay As You Go plan instead of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Aldi.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I do.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Amaysim charges 7.2c/MB whereas Aldi charges 5c/MB.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Amaysim uses the entire Optus network. Aldi
>>>>>>>>>>> only has access to part of the Telstra 4G network.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> As someone who can compare both, Aldi's limited Telstra network
>>>>>>>>>> is definitely better than Optus' full network in western 
>>>>>>>>>> Victoria.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Having used both, the word bargepole should be used with amaysim.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I use it all the time and you are just plain wrong, as always.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looks like you are wrong on this one.  Are you to up yourself to use 
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> supermarket branded telco?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For me Amaysim is the cheaper option.
>>>>>> For others ALDI maybe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How is it cheaper?
>>>>
>>>> My Amaysim cost $10 a month, tops.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's normally what I average. Just got a bill for $30 but that 
>>> was
>>> unusual because I have just cut over to the NBN and chose to use the 
>>> mobile
>>> to get that activated as quickly as possible. Long time on hold with
>>> MyRepublic
>>> and needless to say that call to activate was the only one that has ever
>>> dropped
>>> out while talking to the phone monkey so needed to do another. Total
>>> time was
>>> about 1:10. $10ish. No big deal in the other costs, particularly the
>>> break fee with
>>> dodo of $99 but that saves me $6/month so will pay for itself in the
>>> first year.
>>>
>>> But we'd both get the same cost with aldi.
>>>
>>> I really should change over to a $25/month unlimited national calls
>>> and texts just for the convenience and wear the $15/month extra.
>>>
>>>> My Smartphone uses WiFi mainly,
>>>
>>> I don't get to do that here, only the library and the biggest mall
>>> have wifi here that is any real use to me and even then, the only
>>> time I actually use it is when twiddling my thumbs waiting for a
>>> script to be filled for 10 mins and I should do that by ordering
>>> it with the app and have it ready for pickup with no waiting.
>>>
>>> Drive thru pickup too if I change chemists.
>>>
>>>> only their (Amaysim) data I use on train to Sydney,
>>>> means I never use my quoter Amaysim add what
>>>> I don't use to my new $10
>>>
>>> I pay for the data I use at 7.5c/KB
>>>
>>> There is bugger all in it now between aldi and amaysim
>>> but until there is something in it I'd rather stay with the
>>> operation that put a bomb under the market first to
>>> support them for doing that.
>>
>> Southernphone plan, sim only 12 month super 5 plan
>> Unlimited talk, unlimited text, $50.00 international credit, 5GB data
>
>
> When you get these cheaper plans what is the reception like?

Identical in our case with Optus MVPs. A couple drop from 4G+
to 3G for just the extremely high data allowances, and southern
phone is only 3G for all of their Super plans. Aldi was only a subset
of the Telstra coverage but that hasn't been true for a while now.

Not clear what happens with Vodafone MVPs because
they are useless here, don't even have decent coverage
inside the house so I have ignored their MVPs.

And while I have had a Vodafone no contract plan for more
than a decade which had no monthly fee at all, the stupid
fuckers just told me yesterday that they have very generously
upgraded me to the VM 30 plan which costs $30 a month, so I
quite literally told them to shove that where the sun don't shine.

> I used to be with vodaphone and when the area got busy,
> vodaphone cut off but people with telstra had no problem.
> Telstra gave higher priority to its own customers.

Don't get that effect with Optus. 

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Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-02-27 16:59 +1100
  Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2017-02-27 18:48 +1000
  Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-02-27 17:39 +0800
    Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-02-27 21:13 +1100
    Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 05:56 +1100
      Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-02-28 12:10 +0800
        Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-02 19:51 +1100
    Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-02 19:50 +1100
  Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 05:57 +1100
    Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-02-27 21:57 +0000
      Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2017-02-28 11:01 +1000
        Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 17:26 +1100
          Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-02 20:11 +1100
            Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 07:26 +1100
              Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-03 08:09 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 20:35 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Lucifer Morningstar <Barry@saymyname.com> - 2017-03-04 00:28 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 09:13 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 03:49 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 FMurtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-10-10 19:37 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 FMurtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-10-10 19:42 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-11 09:07 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-11 09:06 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2017-10-11 10:07 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-11 11:54 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-10-12 11:19 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-04 09:42 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 19:37 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-04 19:49 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2017-03-04 18:57 +1000
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:12 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-03-06 07:01 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 07:07 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-04 20:23 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 20:43 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-04 09:44 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2017-03-04 09:14 +1000
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 16:50 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2017-03-04 20:05 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:24 +1100
                Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 04:05 +1100
            Re: Money Magazine Best Value Prepaid Plan For Low Users 2017 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-03 20:38 +1100

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