Activate one of these kits on the Telstra Prepaid Offer by the 26th of February 2018 to get a total of 10GB of data (1GB of data to use in 7 days plus 9GB in the data bank which can be revived with a recharge even after the last recharge has expired) You also get 7 days of unlimited calls and text messages.
This is still a pretty good deal even if you don't need so much data by the 26th of February - because of the 9GB being in the data bank, you can activate it before the 26th of February, let the 7 days expire and then do a $10 recharge when you do need to use the data - it'll give you 28 days expiry and you can use the $10 to put another 1GB into your data bank. (Keep in mind that Telstra Prepaid Sims generally expire completely about 6 months after the last recharge expires, so you would need to do a $10 recharge twice a year to keep the sim alive)
Additional ideas for if you've got Telstra recharge credit that you can no longer use on Google Play:
If you use a fair bit of data and would like to go for something a little more convenient and don't mind spending some additional cash:
- Purchase a $10 sim card
- Activate the Sim Card on Extra to get 1GB + 9GB bonus already in the data bank
- Switch to the Long Life Offer.
- Send Credit to new sim card using CreditMe2U
- Recharge $30 or $70 to get 6 or 12 months expiry respectively
- Switch back to Extra
- Purchase data straight into the data bank for 2.5GB per $20
Doing the above, you could convert $250 of recharge credit (plus $6.25 in Credit Me2U fees) plus $75 of cash into an Extra SIM with 49 GB of data and 12 months to use it in. (I'm not counting the initial 1GB of data which would expire before you've finished the above process) Don't put the sim card into a phone while it's on the Long Life offer as it'll chew through credit at $2 per MB!
Another option if you need even more data and don't mind mucking around a fair bit is to buy a number of $10 SIM cards and activate them on Extra for the 9GB of bonus data – before the 26th of February 2018. Whenever you want to use a fair chunk of data, switch a SIM to Simplicity, transfer $10 of credit, switch back to Extra and convert the $10 to 1GB of data, so you've then got 10GB in the data bank and 14 days to use it. It's not clear how long the recharge only period is for Extra, but assuming that it's 6 months, you would need to do this for each SIM card every 6 months to prevent it from being deactivated. If CreditMe2U is discontinued or Extra is grandfathered, you would then have to recharge each SIM with $10 of real money every 6 months to keep them alive or to access the data bank…
thanks for sharing, so, in theory, the 9 gb in data bank can stay for 6 months? and the minimum recharge is $10?