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Free Unlimited Wi-Fi with Telstra Air - Extended to 27 March 2018 (Telstra Customers)

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Free Unlimited Wi-Fi with Telstra Air - Extended to 27 March 2018 (Telstra Customers)
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pluto on 14/02/2017 - 07:45 telstra.com.au (2124 clicks)
Last edited 15/02/2017 - 01:16 by 2 other users

Just noticed that Telstra Air free Wifi has been extended till 27 March 2018 (unless offer is extended). Can be used by activating $2 sim from here https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/prepaid-mobiles/fre….

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Our free Telstra Air data offer has been extended until 27 March 2018. So if you’re an eligible Telstra mobile or home broadband customer, you can continue to enjoy free data at over 750,000 Telstra Air hotspots across Australia, and over 19 million Fon Spots overseas (from 28 March 2017 until 27 March 2018 Telstra Air home broadband members will no longer be required to have data left on their home allowance in order to take advantage of the offer). That way, you can save your mobile data for when you’re on the move.

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        • vee124 on 14/02/2017 - 13:36

          @potplanty: You know that just means people who have not realized that their modem is submitting their location and have not changed their modem privacy settings. My whole suburb around me has thousands of Fon locations, maybe every 2nd or 3rd house. These are all Telstra customers which have no realized that their modem is also being used as a hotspot. You cant seriously suggest 95% of all telstra customers went through onto fons website and added their modem?

        • Tacooo on 15/02/2017 - 09:24

          @vee124: Regardless, it's not information they've found out themselves illegally and shared.

    • vee124 on 14/02/2017 - 12:37

      Yes. https://fon.com/maps/

      • pluto on 14/02/2017 - 12:40

        Yes i downloaded fon app.I select "telstra air" and can connect to wifi and it shows connected but i cant login or browse. I tried 1.1.1.1 address to login but no success. There is another fon hotspot showing and it didn't worked as well.

  • alz on 14/02/2017 - 11:49

    Once you received and activated the sim card, does it need to be in the phone to access Telstra Air? Can someone please shed some light as to how this process works?
    thanks

    • sween64 on 14/02/2017 - 13:04

      No, I don't think so.

  • su27km on 14/02/2017 - 14:23

    do you guys think Telstra Air is worth? why i tried couple of Telstra phone box on the Street, and they are toooooo slow.

  • StalkingIbis on 14/02/2017 - 17:32

    If i bought a sim and activated it, could i leave it in my drawer and log on to telstra/fon with my computer? Or does it have to be in my phone and i have to connect to the hotspots with my telstra sim enabled phone?

    • PAEz on 15/02/2017 - 23:36
      +1

      Sim can be in the drawer.

  • JIMB0 on 14/02/2017 - 18:46

    I live about 300 metres from a phone box. What sort of antenna would I need to connect to it?

    • ggrant on 17/02/2017 - 22:07
      +1

      You could try a Yagi for wifi. they are directional and some say they can have a 3km range.
      I have been meaning to try one off my chimney, but still not bought one.

      Aliex and Ebay sell them, $30 will get one, but the connectors seem wrong for my big wifi modem.

      Alternative to a yagi, is my big wifi car modem is a Simerst X990 from Aliex (two years ago), it has twin 18inch antenaes, but is omnidirectional. Hotspots from up to 500 meters away, in comfort of car.

  • Wormetti on 15/02/2017 - 16:33

    This was great when MyRepublic took 26 days to connect me. I only had a 2mbit connection to Telstra Air but it was usable and much cheaper than mobile data.

  • StalkingIbis on 17/02/2017 - 17:55
    +1

    $2 sim is now free by ordering online. Definitely worth trying out now!

  • hal9000 on 18/02/2017 - 10:03

    do you have to have an active service with telstra? i just logon with my telstra account but it fails to pass connecting phase. i dont have any active service in my account.

  • GregMonarch on 10/03/2017 - 14:43
    +1

    I cancelled all my Telstra services. So for those wondering, yes, you can get Telstra Air to work without buying anything. Here's the steps. There might be some repeats towards the end, because I was tired:

    1. Go to: https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/prepaid-mobiles/fre…
    2. Click "Order Now"
    3. Enter your details and click SUBMIT

    4. Close page, stand at mailbox - for up to 5 business days…

    5. Turn device off, insert Telstra Air SIM, turn device on

    6. Turn data off and WiFi on
    7. Open browser and go to www.telstra.com/activate (it worked without data turned on… so maybe you have to be near a Telstra Air location)
    8. Select Prepaid (well, I did anyway)
    9. Select "Activate online now"
    10. Turn WiFi off, and data on
    11. Click "Activate Now" if a new customer. (Or "login to activate quicker" if you already have some kind of Telstra account - because it will recognise your details, instead of needing to fill them in.)
    12. If "Activating now", enter the phone number or SIM serial number on back of the Telstra SIM packet
    13. Select number
    14. Click "Device type"
    15. Click "Mobile broadband"
    16. Click "Next step"
    17. And click it again (why!?)
    18. Fill in personal details
    19. Click "Next step"
    20. Enter an email - one you have access to right now
    21. Click "Next step"
    22. Tick "I agree" and then "Next step"
    23. Click "I agree" and then "Activate"
    24. Read - you need the practice
    25. Select "Continue"
    26. Wait for email confirmation
    27. Click "Get started"
    28. Close and wait for email and/or SMS confirmation (yes, a second one)
    29. Turn device off, replace your original phone/data SIM
    30. Check email
    31. The first email is not it - it's the second one
    32. Go to Google Playstore and install the "Telstra Air" app
    33. Enter username/email and password
    34. Turn data off and WiFi on (at a Telstra Air location)

    I had this setup once before, so it would login automatically when you came in range of a hotspot. But I forget how to do that.

    • nomadic life on 05/05/2017 - 18:26

      Thanks for the detailed instructions! I tried to set my sim up a couple of days ago but got an error right at the end stating that mobile broadband couldn't be activated online. Tried it again today and the mobile broadband option has now changed - a plan must now be selected (didn't need to do so when I tried previously) :-(

  • Stingo on 01/10/2017 - 13:44
    +1

    An end date is no longer advertised. These days you also need to be within your credit validity period to login into Telstra Air. New zero credit SIMs get about 16 days of credit "expiry".

    I activated a $30 SIM a couple of days ago and found I needed to use some mobile data to re-activate Telstra Air despite having activated it on a previous SIM with now expired credit). See the Telstra Air activation page

    It seems that the Telstra activation process checks the devices IMEI against the plan the SIM is activated on. I was using the SIM, activated on the Long Expiry Plan, in a mobile broadband modem. The activation kept on failing asserting that I was using WiFi. 1st line Telstra Air support were pretty useless about this and claim they have no visibility into the activation process and refused to escalate unless I could activate the SIM - catch 22. To be fair though the CSR did eventually suggest trying the SIM in another device which is the only helpful thing he eventually said but I had already made up my mind to try that. I might well have been told to do that earlier had I offered that I was using the SIM in a modem but telling support people that you are using "phone" SIMs in modems and vice versa can confuse them and derail the conversation for no good reason. Once I put the SIM in my Android phone I was able to activate without issue via my web browser.

    I ended up wasting about 3MB of data in my repeated attempts including whatever background data my devices consumed. That cost me about $5 in credit as data on Long Life costs $2/MB. In hindsight I should have switched to Simplicity before doing that as data is 1/20th the cost. Seasoned Telstra users know that: the only time you should only be on Long Life when credit is applied to get the benefit of longer credit expiry. On my modem each activation attempt consumed about 0.3MB.

    You can go directly to the (current) mobile activation link bypassing the guff of the link above. If you are using chrome include the scheme name (i.e. the http:// part) to avoid running a search in the default search engine.

    To be pedantic Telstra Air isn't entirely free since you may incur costs for mobile data on some plans. That's really annoying if your favourite rebate app only works in multiples of $5. *Sigh*

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