New Optus Plans 50GB+70GB = $49.99, 75GB+75GB = $59.99 with Download/Uploads Counted
This was posted 3 years 2 months 22 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Called up Optus as I was thinking of moving to TPG but they offered me their new set of plans, apparantly released today!
$49.99 = 50gb + 70gb offpeak
$59.99 = 75gb + 75gb offpeak
Both prices include a $10 discount for bundling with home phone, but if you are currently getting any free months you'll lose them (thanks Nowheredotcom)
Peak = 12pm-12am
Offpeak = 12am-12pm
Both Downloads/Uploads are counted.
No details on their website yet.
If you're on one of their older plans (i was on 20/40) you'll also get doubled internet speed as these plans have 20mbps download and 512kbps upload. No lock-in contracts if you're not already on one. They also offered me $10/mo off my home phone. I was told the upgrade would apply from 1st May.
I have cable internet so I can't guarantee this offer goes with ADSL as well - maybe someone can confirm.
can confirm…i got cold called and offered this deal (75+75)…they said no changes to exist bundling deal with home phone and no contract (since I am off contract)…however upload counts now but no biggy…and here I was just considering the TPG offer…they must be feeling the competition…
PS. I am on cable too…
+2 votesFunkdafied on 30/03/2010 - 10:09 ¶Great deal! I'm on the old 12/24 cable plan and paying about $60/month.. The new $50 plan is better in every way. Sure uploads count but I don't really care since I'm getting more than 4x the downloads.
Thought about switching to ADSL2+ but will stay with cable for the speed/reliability.
Btw, I called Optus just now and was told about an additional plan not mentioned above. Apparently there's also a $39.99 plan with 10gb/20gb downloads. Not the best value, but worth mentioning.
+4 votesjust got off the fone from a really nice rep
confirmed the following info:
cant sign up till 25th april
$69.95 for the 75/75 plan. its a naked deal
but if u are already with optus and bundled it with telephone, u get it for $10 cheaper – $59.95theres also a higher plan
85/85 for $10 moreupload speed should double to 512
download speed should double to 20mbpscapped speed drops from 512 to 64 but seriously i dont think u can get capped anyway
there is no contract
and u can move between plans during the month. pricing is pro rataed and u basically just get billed the difference.u dont need a new modem. so 4200 is fine
those who didnt get any re contracting bonuses or offers like 10% off. should call up. they will TRY to arrange a sales rep who wants to make a buck and give u offers to recontract.
cant wait till the 25th april!
+3 votesI just rang to upgrade and was told that my uploads were between 750mb to 2gb a month - he checked it without asking and was more worried about the counting uploads and downloads than I was. Given that this plan has 40gb more included than my current plan for a lower price, that just lowers it to a 38gb improvement. I think I can deal. That said, I don't torrent.
persianrayis on 29/03/2010 - 17:37 ¶I called up last week and the guy told me to wait to Monday before changing my plan…Sure glad I did!
SmokeandMirrors on 29/03/2010 - 17:47 ¶I just called up and the guy said that there are no such plans!!! It seems like that some of their staff do not know about this deal.
Shadowsfury on 29/03/2010 - 18:18 ¶Oh man just as I'm about to get away from my crappy 20/40 @ 1500k to iiNet this appears.
Might give a ring and see, already been with Optus 3 years, if there's no lock in contract I might switch.
+3 votesI'm not sure how these could be construed as being better value than TPG's current plans, unless Offpeak times are critical.
TPG's equivalent plans:
$49.99/mo - 70GB/60GB
$59.99/mo - 80GB/70GB
Offpeak: 2:00-8:00
Uploads not counted, shaped to 1Mbps/1MbpsStill, it's pretty good coming from Optus.
I'm on the same plan. Just come off 6 months at half price, and still on 1 in 4 months free. The $49.99 plan is roughly the same price I'm paying on average now, but double the speed.
Don't do too much private tracker torrents, so counted uploads don't bother me too much, but need to look at how it impacts online backups - if I can schedule to off peak, won't affect me at all.
+2 votesI called about half an hour ago and got through to their call centre in India. I got confirmation that this plan is available on 1/5. It's not contracted on a 12 month or 24 month basis and is rather a month-to-month plan. Should I downgrade there will be a $50 penalty.
Unfortunately, the lady wouldn't give me $10 off my home phone, so I'll be calling again during normal business hours soon to enquire about this since the lady said she doesn't know anything about home phones!!
interesting…i was planing to switch to TPG after my optus phone contract expired. but this looks tempting.
initially on the 20/40 plan for 60ish/month.
i can confirm that you can get $10 off/month for home phone for 6 months and 30 off/month for cable. you can only apply for this once per year though. i have to wait till august to call them up for a discount again ><- +1 vote
if you are off contract for cable, i believe you get a 'recontract reward' which is worth 10% off your cable bill.
you can apply for BOTH home phone and cable discount.
and you can apply for both once per year- which is about 30+10/month off for 6 months = $240 saving/year
note, that im on the old 20/40 plan, so im not sure if this will work with all plans.
if you get rejected the offer, just keep calling ^^when i called them last time for the offer, i told them tpg had better plans and i was planning to switch if they weren't going to offer me anything better - so they said theyd see what they can do, and eventually told me they were able to get 30 off/month for cable.
as for the the phone, i called them on a separate date (i found about this discount a bit later) and asked them if they had any loyalty discounts/incentives i could take advantage of, and best they could give me was 10/off. i have heard some people had 15/off though, but 10 is still good.
Trance N Dance on 29/03/2010 - 20:18 ¶good offer considering it's from optus but the uploads counted makes me look the other way to TPG
180bysummer on 29/03/2010 - 20:22 ¶does anybody know is this is available for ADSL 2?
I tried to call, call ended up in India. Let's just say there was a culture confusion, and when i asked if he had any knowledge of if the new plans will be for ADSL2, the operator got distracted and proceeded to offer the 30/60 plan (half the usage after one year).
The call ended with him suggesting i wait until May 1st and "see if it is available for ADSL 2", rendering my call useless.
-1 voteI actually called them today asking for new plans, and they told me to wait until 25th of april when they are releasing new competitive plans. I've been with optus for 7 years and not once has the marketing team called me to offer me anything new. The guy on the phone told me i would have to wait until end of april to sign on. Very annoyed if they didnt offer me the plan now with no-lock in contract seeing that the op has confirmed this deal…
Uploads are important. Even if you don't use private trackers you should have the habit of uploading a bit. Remember, if nobody uploads, nobody can download. Egg chicken situation.
And for those who never use private tracker, you will be impress how much faster they are comparing to public tracker.
Nowheredotcom on 29/03/2010 - 21:22 ¶I'm on the 12/24 plan to. No upload on that though. So is this 50gb counted in total with upload and download? I'm interested in this because I can't get ADSL. Also is the speeds a lot quicker, how can they be with cable, assuming this is cable right?
- 180bysummer on 29/03/2010 - 21:37 ¶
I've heard as long as the plan is an UPgrade, it is allowed (all they do is restart the length of your contract).
However, if these prices are true, your plan is more expensive so it may technically be a downgrade?
Dnt quote me though, im not sure.
- +3 votes
I was considering going with TPG but theres the hassle of getting the hardware, contract etc. The best thing about this deal if you're already a non-contracted customer is that the only thing you have to lose is being able to go back to your older outdated plan
DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade will be completed by June.
$70 for 120GB cable + home phone that includes $50 worth of calls per month.
That's good value, maybe even the current best.
That is if TPG doesn't counter by offering free LNP, knocks off $15 or does away with the $10 minimum call spend on their $1 line rental plans.
I do agree with davidl2. With ADSL2 I was getting less than ADSL speed and they want me to pay for a techinician to certify my PSTN lines. After two years I moved with most hated telelephone company -Telstra with a cable connection. WOW the speed is not comparable to any other ISP, Even optus cable.Since I don't use more than 6GB, 12GB plan is great value. Throttled speed is better than optus ADSL.
ADSL2 performance depends on a customers distance from the Exchange (not as a crow flies though). So some customers will certainly get worse performance than cable - they need to do their measuring homework before any switch. Cable is capable of speeds higher than ADSL2 if the telco enables it also (eg. DOCSIS 3.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLAvj6S0zCY). Cable speeds are not distance dependant. Good to see Optus bringing these deals out to restore credibility to cable and hold off the migration back to legacy copper lines. Saves Telstra getting a cut through the ADSL2 process also for doing SFA.
greenpossum on 29/03/2010 - 21:55 ¶If this offer is cable only, I'm not surprised because the only two cable ISPs, Telstra and Optus are trying to milk any remaining cash out of their investment since ADSL2+ exceeds cable speeds. The other downside of cable is the slow upstream speed. No fun when sending out a mail with a large attachment takes minutes. That's one of the reasons I jumped to naked ADSL2+ as soon as it made sense.
See above. No email upload should take minutes ;-) If you're after speed, once DOCSIS 3.0 hits you'll want to come back to cable. It all depends on the tranmission standard implemented (turned on by the telco). As a medium, fibre (cable) will always be faster then copper (esp. old copper).
BarginHunter on 29/03/2010 - 23:51 ¶Nice deal and all but uploads counted is fail right there. Also if the plan is not going to be available to you until may why would you sign up from now? There could be way better deals out come may.
swimmingtoad on 01/04/2010 - 20:15 ¶Telstra: 25GB Extreme cable or ADSL2+ Liberty (30mb/s) $49.95 a month
matt777 on 30/03/2010 - 07:36 Comment score below threshold (-4).
+2 votesCompared to what I'm on at the moment, 12gb peak and 24gb offpeak, this is a deal. I'm actually capped right now, and was thinking of calling Optus up to upgrade soon. So I'm glad this got voted up!
My house is right on the outer limits of ADSL coverage so I don't have many alternatives.
furythree on 30/03/2010 - 10:20 Comment score below threshold (0).
Crownie on 30/03/2010 - 10:51 Comment score below threshold (-1).
+2 votesI'm not sure why we should be getting Optus/iiNet/Telstra, definitely not Telstra, in terms of value. TPG and AAPT provide much better value. I'm with AAPT and the speeds, performance haven't disappoint me yet… I was with TPG before, and well it's quite problematic, bad customer service, constantly slow speed, etc.
+4 votesThis is great, and this is why I LOVE ozbargain and whirlpool.
Thanks SO MUCH to the original poster, because this move by Optus is a "game-changer"
I'm with Optus for many years now, on the good-ol' 7-14 plan, sometimes changing to the 20-40.
These plans DO EXIST and we wouldn't have known about them unless the original poster made his/her enquiry and more importantly LET US KNOW ABOUT IT.
Thanks so much. I'll definitely be changing to one of these plans in May.
- +3 votes
No worries. And don't forget, you'll be able to stay on the new 50+70gb plan and then change to the 75+75gb plan if you exceed the 50+70 for that month.
With me being on the 20-40 plan before, if i was capped, i was capped and had to wait for the rest of the month as it was the highest option on that set of plans.
Actually you would have known about them when they get "officially" released by Optus in a few weeks for formal offer/take up. No doubt there will be a cast of Optus animals shouting at you from every media outlet about these deals but thank you to the OP for the confirmation of the online rumours that have been circulating nonetheless.
- +2 votesNowheredotcom on 30/03/2010 - 09:23 ¶
So I rang and asked coz I'm on the oldest plan 12/24. They said that it would become effective as of 1st of May and that I would receive the $10 discount because of having a bundled home phone. Normally it would be $59. I also asked about the every 4 months I get a free paid month and they said that it would not be offered again. No locked in contract either
Optus are already running a DOCSIS 2.0 network. They have the ability to match Bigpond's current speeds of 30Mbps, and DOCSIS 2.0 is capable of 38Mbps downstream. It's a shame they're capping the speeds to only 20Mbps.
I'm wary of these new plans if they are going lock customers into this lower speed. Especially when their network will be DOCSIS 3.0 (up to 120Mbit/s) come June, 2010.
I don't know if they will lock customers into the plans for that reason (ie. they may hope they upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0). If customers want to take up the DOCSIS 3.0 offer (when released) they will need a new modem from Optus anyway (see my YouTube link about for an example of what the new Motorola modems look like).
Im quite dissapointed, just got off the phone with Optus and enquired about this deal and they said "they dont have such a plan". He said the only thing was offered was the existing $60 for 90gb. I also asked " So is there gonna be any new plans in May?" he stated "Nope, not at this stage". I guess not all their staff are onto this as of yet, and I guess I will be trying later next month if this plan indeed will exist.
Hey there - thespot. Rest assured, these plans will be offered. Just like when Telstra brought out a new plan in the past, only select customers were offered it, and all other staff did not know about it, and there was nothing about it on the website. Just be patient and wait. This will cause a big stir in the market. For those of you on Telstra, you might just have to wait another couple of months after that before Telstra comes up with it's response.
That's why they are not "officially" released to the public yet as it take a while for all the sales people to be trained, etc. People need to be patient before reverse harrassing Optus ;-) 1st May is a month away. Not sure why people are so eager to talk to salespeople who haven't been made aware of the deal yet…
+2 votesgummibears on 30/03/2010 - 09:48 ¶Finally a plan that isn't ridiculously priced and won't get me capped (like I am now). On the 20-40 right now and this is just what I needed. No TPG adsl2+ in my area.
Kantankerous on 30/03/2010 - 10:04 ¶I have called Optus just then and sales team seems to have no idea about it!
I definitely say wait until closer to May when most of the staff seems to know about it.
Is there any connection fee for a new signup customer?
Currently with Exetel, who hiked all ADSL plans by $5 and stripped free VOIP/SMS, I have been thinking about TPG but if everything sounds right with this yet to be announced Optus internet service, I have no hesitation to do business with Optus again knowing that support service is not so great with Exetel and TPG. I don't have any great expectation with Optus customer service either and it's fine with me. (as long as they provide stable connection)
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I note that there's a 24 month lock-in and that the off-peak allowance halves after the first 12 months.