Best $29 prepaid deal or cheaper Telstra recharges?

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  bargainr on 15/10/2011 - 13:31

  EzyRecharge are giving $15 cash back on recharges of $40 or more if you use PayPal.

  http://www.ezyrecharge.com.au/mobile.jsp

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    llama on 18/10/2011 - 15:54

    Not really much use in the long term…

    There is a limit of one Cashback per PayPal account

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  ThePistonHead on 15/10/2011 - 15:48

  +1

  Change your plan to "Telstra pre paid simplicity" through your #125 menu. Google it first, gives you rates comparable with amaysim but on telstra (15c/min calls without a flagfall and 12c SMS to any network) data is 10c/MB

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    toomuchdogfur on 16/10/2011 - 12:44

    Wow, thanks for pointing that out! I switched to Telstra to get better network coverage and speed, but never got even close to the limits on a $30 prepaid cap plan… this should do much better.

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    phobaphobic on 16/10/2011 - 20:50

    But with this, using 500MB of data would be $50… I'm sure as far as calling and texting go this would be a good plan, but the only reason I really use Telstra is for the fact that it's 3G network actually works…

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      ThePistonHead on 18/10/2011 - 13:43

      Buy a data pack.

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        phobaphobic on 19/10/2011 - 16:26

        They are hugely overpriced - a lot more expensive than the $30 prepaid.

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    AG_ACT on 20/10/2011 - 14:27

    Before doing this, make sure you change to long life, and then recharge with $60+

    Then me2u/ebay is your friend.

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  llama on 18/10/2011 - 16:08

  Let's do some maths… I am pretty sure this is correct (somebody please check)

  A) Charge $30 on the Talk and Text prepaid…
  - Use $10 to buy a 1GB Data Pack
  - Use $20 to buy extra talk packs

  Call cost 35c connect and 80c/min - allowing 2 mins per call, say $2 each = 20 mins

  But you get 100 mins bonus + 200 texts bonus

  TOTALS: 120 Mins talk + 1.5GB Data + 200 texts

  B) Charge $20 Prepaid Simplicity
  - Plus pay extra $10 for a 1GB data pack (thus total = $30)

  Talk = 15c per minute (AU) = 133 mins talk

  TOTALS: 133 mins talk + 1.0GB Data + ZERO texts

  You get 13 minutes more talk, but 0.5Gb less data and no texts. The SMS are only 12c each, but you lose almost a minute of talk time for each SMS you send. You'd only need to send 16 SMS per month before you'd chew up the 13 mins advantage.

  At that $30 price point, Simplicity does not look like a better deal.

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    ThePistonHead on 19/10/2011 - 10:11

    Where did the 1.5GB come from? do you get 500mb bonus?

    Also, last time i checked, $10 got you 200mb on prepaid. You're looking at the post paid options.

    http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/prepaid/extras.html

    And also, i'm not sure, but 1c texts could still apply under simplicity.

    And the $2 per 2 mins is a bit misleading, for me anyway. 90% of my calls are under 1 minute and that makes it significantly cheaper to use simplicity.

    Regular =

    35c + 80c = 115 cents

    Giving you 17.4 minutes of talk time ($20)

    Simplicity

    15c

    Giving you 133 minutes of talk time ($20)

    Depends what you're using.
    And btw, i'm not on simplicity :P