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Vodafone 5G Home Broadband, Half Price for First 12 Months - $37.50/Month 100Mbps, $42.50/Month Max Speed @ Vodafone

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Excellent deal if you are in Vodafone 5G Home internet coverage area.
Reading their 5G Home plan spiel, there are 3 offers that run at the same time:
1. First month free.
2. Existing Vodafone mobile customer gets another $2.50 off per month (50% of $5).
3. 50% off plan fees for the first 12 months.

5G Home Internet - Half price.
From $35/mth for the first 12 months when you have a phone plan with us. Hurry, offer ends 30/11.

50% off 5G Home Internet Offer
For personal use only. 50% off plan fees for new 5G Home Internet customers who sign up between 24 November 2021 and 30 November 2021 (unless extended) (‘Discount’). The Discount is on monthly plan fees only and applied as a recurring monthly credit on your bill. Discount is forfeited if you cancel early or change plan. Available in all channels Total Min. Cost is $75 or $85, depending on your chosen plan (or $70 or $80 respectively if you are an existing postpaid mobile phone plan customer) – this is one month of plan fees, provided you return the modem in Good Working Order within 30 days of cancellation. Modem fee may apply. Maximum modem cost is $612. After the first 12 months, the minimum monthly spend is $75 or $85, depending on your chosen plan (or $70 or $80 respectively if you are an existing postpaid mobile phone plan customer). Offer available in conjunction with first month free offer for 5G Home Internet and existing postpaid mobile phone plan customer discounts. Offer not transferable or redeemable for cash. Subject to change. Not for commercial or resale purposes.

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    • PeeDee on 28/11/2021 - 08:03
      +1

      Edit just read need to have a postpaid plan

      • USER DC on 28/11/2021 - 10:21

        I am just thinking about
        1. joining Vodafone's cheapest mobile sim only plan,
        2. get discounted pricing on 5G home internet
        3. Cancel the vodafone sim only plan straight away

        just not sure if after cancellation they give only do a pro rata charge? and that they still continue to give $2.5 discount on the 5G home internet,
        I think they wont (their website says they put discount on the Bill itself so it can be set to only discount for months that you have a mobile plan and not during those months that you don't have post paid plan.

        • PeeDee on 28/11/2021 - 12:17

          Yeah I don't know if you can get away with that… Plus it's a contract

          • USER DC on 30/11/2021 - 00:47

            @PeeDee: Just read their Terms condition last night, it says Discount will be cancelled if the plan is no longer there. Hence cannot do this thing unfortunately

          • USER DC on 01/12/2021 - 11:50

            @PeeDee: No its NOT A CONTRACT

  • khangu on 28/11/2021 - 07:55
    +2

    Tried to sign up and they asked for employer and their contact number?

    Does any Telco do that now for just a broadband connection?

    Aborted the process. Why ask for this when they will get my credit card details for payment already?

    • jwh on 28/11/2021 - 08:18
      +2

      Can you leave it blank?

      Otherwise;

      Employer: nunyabiznuss
      Contact: 07 6969 6969

      • khangu on 28/11/2021 - 09:13
        +1

        Leaving it blank doesn't allow you to continue.

        Surprised that it's required info for a broadband connection. I am not getting any credit from Vodafone apart from a $200 modem… lol.

      • USER DC on 28/11/2021 - 15:09

        It is a post paid service so yes they will need to ensure customer has enough credit rating to be able to pay their bills
        That's the problem with all Post Paid telco's all so had on credit too

        If you put a random employer or something then it may show up as.that being your actual employer in your credit history from bureau like Equifax,illion etc

        • jwh on 28/11/2021 - 15:50

          If you put a random employer or something then it may show up as.that being your actual employer in your credit history from bureau like Equifax,illion etc

          I don't think companies should require your employers name and contact number to connect essential services. Whether this particular 5G service is essential or not is debatable, but lockdown has proven that reliable Internet is a pretty necessary part of being included in society.

          • USER DC on 30/11/2021 - 00:50

            @jwh: Company is still a business, and they dont want to give out money/credit for Free.

            This is the problem, If they simply change their model from post paid to pre-paid that will solve all the problems, that they dont need to worry about loosing credit, and hence will not legally be required to collect/meet credit lending requirements, (and be a service Like Superloop/Belong NBN- both prepaid and don't do credit checks)

    • USER DC on 28/11/2021 - 10:22

      Is it prepaid or post paid 5G home internet ?

      • khangu on 28/11/2021 - 12:11

        It's just your standard wireless home broadband so it's post paid.

        • USER DC on 28/11/2021 - 15:06

          Omg another credit enquiry then :(
          These telco enquiries hit credit so dam hard man

  • Ade99 on 28/11/2021 - 08:17

    smack in the middle of 5G indoor coverage but plan not available! Is the '5G coverage map' right or is the 'address checker' right? ….or?

    • cloudy on 28/11/2021 - 23:19

      From a comment above, the map is conservative in its coverage, meaning if you’re close to a coverage you are probably serviced, but they don’t declare it to be on the safe side in case you don’t always get full reception .

  • congo on 28/11/2021 - 09:14

    Coverage map:
    https://www.vodafone.com.au/network/coverage-checker

    How accurate is it?
    My house has no coverage but next door has?

  • GordonD on 28/11/2021 - 09:24
    +4

    5G has turned out to be a bigger debacle than the NBN. Great if you happen live in the right place. Unavailable if you don't.

    In my area Telstra has great coverage. But I'm a light user and its light use plan doesn't include 5G. I'd have to sign up to a l-o-t more data than I need and a lot of money to get 5G speed.

    Optus and Vodafone use the same 3rd-party tower which is in sight across open flat ground. But Vodafone only guarantees indoor 5G reception within a couple of hundred metres of the tower where there's only a couple of market gardens to receive it, and Optus has this weirdly shaped reception pattern that includes unpopulated areas kilometres from the tower but excludes the residential parts of the suburb where the paying customers are just hundreds of metres away from it.

    The tower appears to be using beamforming to control how much signal goes in each direction to block 5G reception in the parts of the area around the tower where there would be many customers. I know the equipment in the tower CAN deliver a good 5G signal to my home because each time there's a blackout the tower comes back up with beamforming off, and I get great 5G reception at 125-200 Mb/s until someone at Optus notices, and goes and turns the beamforming back on and I'm back to 4G at 4-12 Mb/s.

    5G is a technology that works. But Telstra only wants to give it to you if you pay them a lot of money. And Optus and Vodafone cripple it, limiting it to as few customers as they can, presumably because their networks couldn't carry the load if too many customers had access to its much higher speeds and used them.

  • Jammar on 28/11/2021 - 09:57

    I just checked my Optus 5G. It’s a constant 600/140 after 3 modems replacement over the last 2 years.

    • hashtagbargain on 28/11/2021 - 10:07
      +2

      Why did you need 3 modem replacements?

      • Jammar on 28/11/2021 - 12:32
        +1

        1st modem dropped out and won’t reconnect to 5G automatically.

        2nd modem drop out frequently.

        3rd modem works fine, hasn’t restart it manually yet since May. Although I set up a rescan at 3am daily.

        • michael9865 on 28/11/2021 - 15:49

          interesting was there anything different about the modems or the same exact one?
          Wanting to know if there was something different in your 3rd one vs the others so I can look out for it too in the future

          • Jammar on 03/12/2021 - 17:49

            @michael9865: I can’t tell for sure. But I noticed with the 3rd modem it connected to 5G a lot more quicker and the 5G indicator stays green. It does drop to amber every now and then but always manage to find its way back to 5G.

            Looking at the log it has less “error” compare to previous modem but I can’t work out why there is even “error” in a brand new modem, the firmware seems to be on constant upgrade.

    • T-man on 28/11/2021 - 11:27

      And did the speed increase after the modem replacement? What was the speed for the first modem?

      • Jammar on 28/11/2021 - 12:33

        Yes considering it wasn’t reconnecting back to 5G previously, but I was able to get 200mbps on 4G.

    • bazingaa on 28/11/2021 - 12:03

      what's the plan and monthly charge?

      • Jammar on 28/11/2021 - 12:39
        +1

        $70/pm unlimited no speed tier. But I was early adopter I don’t think Optus offer this plan anymore.

        My address wasn’t covered but my neighbour is, so I ordered regardless talking to customer service.

        I could only go with m2m and $200 setup cost for 1st month due to coverage risk, but I requested to join 12m plan on the 2nd month with $200 credit.

  • utsc on 28/11/2021 - 14:13

    Has anyone checked the speed in 4G only area?
    Does Vodafone audit address if used exclusively in only 4G area after shipping to a 5G address

  • life is suffering on 28/11/2021 - 14:21

    I'm with spintel and it's absolute garbage

    • Buy2Much on 28/11/2021 - 14:28
      +1

      They were good initially (over a year ago), but I think as Optus' subscribers number grow taking up bandwidth, Optus now prioritise their direct customers. I used to have 5G then from early this year, it stayed on 4G almost all the time. 'Tried many times to get them to fix but Optus seem to treat Spintel customers second class or third class citizens (Spintel support tried to help but they rely on Optus techs)… So bai Spintel.

      • life is suffering on 28/11/2021 - 14:29

        Also there is a 12 m contract which is absurd. Early this year there was no NBN hence spintel was the the only choice :(

        • Buy2Much on 28/11/2021 - 14:33
          +1

          I got out of my 24 month contract as they failed to meet their 50Mbps guarantee. Spintel tried to charge me termination fee, but once I pointed out their T&Cs, they backed down. You can try Optus direct or Vodafone, they have 1 month free.

  • utsc on 28/11/2021 - 14:50

    Is it safe to assume that the merged Vodafone TPG would offer better 5G service than Optus?

    My understanding is that Vodafone is also offering the newer Nokia 5G modem as its competitors

  • Enjj0y on 28/11/2021 - 16:25

    Order Dispatch info received.
    Once installed, I will report speed tests.

    • zombie hunter on 28/11/2021 - 18:08

      wow you luck for address to work,i tried a few of my friends none worked

  • Taro Milk Tea on 28/11/2021 - 17:47

    is anyone experiencing error while trying to checkout?

  • Asaboy on 28/11/2021 - 21:48

    How's the ping with this 5G internet plan, especially with Vodaphone? Also, what makes Max 5G Speed special compared to the cheaper plan?

    • Buy2Much on 28/11/2021 - 21:51
      +1

      Ping 20-30ms. As described on the link, cheaper plan is capped 100Mbps download, Max is uncapped to as high as your location can take it. Some people are reporting 200-300Mbps.

      • Asaboy on 28/11/2021 - 21:55
        +1

        Oh wow, that's really quick. I have pretty good 5G Vodaphone coverage so that Max Speed plan sounds like a great deal. Ping will be manageable though. Thank you for your answers.

  • FOX on 28/11/2021 - 22:00

    Just signed up, credit card took a $1 pre-authorisation. Received confirmation email with order number. You can have a separate delivery address (to receive the modem) and installation address (where the 5G service is to be consumed). They asked for some employment details including type of employment, company name and employer phone number (I don't think they're really interested in this but it's there). You do NOT need to have an active Vodafone service to sign up to this.

  • utsc on 28/11/2021 - 23:30

    Total min. cost $687.00

    But I guess it's $75 + $612 (Total cost of the Modem)

    But if the modem is returned then the total minimum cost should be $75

  • zenzen on 29/11/2021 - 12:18
    -1

    Tried to sign up with $75 plan. My home address is covered by 5G indoor so as are entire surrounding blocks. Address check result is Not available. So called the support hoping they can sign up for me but they said my address is not available for '5G home internet' which is different from '5G data'.

    I said I understand the risk if service is not good then I can cancel later almost nothing to lose but he won't be able to sign up with 5G home internet but couldonly offered 4G home internet which I didn't sign up. Very dissapointing and confused their coverage map and availability.
    Wonder if Vodafone shop staff can sign up for me.

    • WatchNerd on 29/11/2021 - 13:32

      I use a Kogan 4G sim in a USB Modem so I know I get Voda 4G at home but it's the same problem when I try to sign up for the 4G home internet special.

      Anyway I ordered via a family member's address & will use it at my place, hopefully haha.

  • Sapiens on 29/11/2021 - 14:36

    DON'T DO IT!!!

    Signed up to a sim only mobile plan so i'd have access to this after triple checking my address was covered by 5G. After 2 hours of phone run arounds to confirm viability of this 5G service was told there was a mistake made on Vodafone side and they DID NOT cover my residence with 5G. Tried to cancel sim only plan only to be told by the THIRD operator that my residence WAS COVERED BY 5G. Pulled up stumps and shut it down. Wasted 5hrs of my time FFS

  • balka20 on 29/11/2021 - 20:06

    I went to a Vodafone store at northland Melbourne and he said there is no 5G home broadband in Victoria. :/ 5G coverage is for mobile phone use only. Thoughts?

    • WatchNerd on 29/11/2021 - 20:19

      That doesn't sound correct. Take a look at their 5G coverage map.

      • balka20 on 29/11/2021 - 21:36
        +1

        i thought so too. but now that I'm checking random addresses in 5g indoor area they are coming up 'Unfortunately, 5G Home Internet isn’t available in your area.'

        • WatchNerd on 30/11/2021 - 09:50
          +1

          I don't understand why they would spend millions on 5G then say it's only for mobile use while advertising specials like this for home 5G.

  • USER DC on 30/11/2021 - 01:22

    Anyone know if we can also get cashback from this using shopback/cashrewards?

    To me it seems like 1st month is $0 for a reason i.e. you wont get cashback for the 1st month hence no CB at all at either CB provider?

    • USER DC on 30/11/2021 - 21:11

      It tracked @ full amount (100%= $85) on Cashrewards
      BUT
      getting it approved is a different story

  • ritsTech on 30/11/2021 - 02:07

    I would recommend the 5G max speed home internet. I am with TPG (free 1 month trial) and I do get 250-350mbps download and 10-17mbps upload speed. Though my router is not on getting full 5G signal inside home (orange light on Nokia 5G gateway) but outdoor reaches 400+ mbps download link speed. Upload speed is not great but give the 50% discount I won’t complain. Today, applied for Vodafone offer (as TPG didn’t give a price match offer) and I can confirm that if you are Vodafone customer you would get the max plan at 42.5$ (50%) and another 5$ discount on top amounting 37.50$ per month for 12 months, plus 1 month free trial. Lucky enough that the 5G network is available and my experience so far with TPG (uses Vodafone’s 5G network) and Nokia 5G modem is awesome with 35 connected devices (mostly gadgets, smart home devices and security cam etc).
    100% recommended if you want to switch to 5G home internet. Do go for Max speed spending 5$ per month more as benefit is immense if you like 4K streaming on multiple devices.

    • Buy2Much on 30/11/2021 - 09:21
      +1

      Nice write up. Seeing that this is a new account, are you affiliated with Vodafone by any chance? 😉

      • ritsTech on 03/12/2021 - 08:45

        No, I am not affiliated with Vodafone. I wanted to share my experience as it might help someone.

        Just to mention, I am having lots of issue with Vodafone mobile network (switched to get 1000$ off on iPhone) at my workplace and in general. A TIO dispute is under investigation.

        But given there was a 50% discount and one month free trial I won’t complain for the home Internet for now. But the offer is gone now, so it’s better to go with TPG as $5 cheaper than Vodafone.

  • dq2020 on 02/12/2021 - 16:05

    Just got one and tested, only 40Mbps at my home :(

    • Taro Milk Tea on 02/12/2021 - 19:37

      Same here very dissapointing!

      • Buy2Much on 02/12/2021 - 20:38

        Did your address came up valid in their 5G Home address checker? Or did you use a different valid address to get the deal?

        • Taro Milk Tea on 02/12/2021 - 21:08

          Of course I put my own address lol. Why would I put different address for?

          • Buy2Much on 02/12/2021 - 21:59

            @Taro Milk Tea: Some people earlier in this thread mentioned that their address did not come up so they use a nearby address which is valid in order to get the service. Try tech support as per my comment below.

        • dq2020 on 02/12/2021 - 21:09

          Yes it's valid. Just tested again, only 12M this time, but there is no problem watching 4k video, so I'm not sure if the online test website is reliable.

          • Buy2Much on 02/12/2021 - 22:00

            @dq2020: Best to contact tech support because they guarantee minimum 50Mbps, anything less is not acceptable. I think they can adjust the coverage beam for your address…

  • PresidentClinton on 03/12/2021 - 10:58

    107mbps! Amazing and so cheap!!! 40ms ping for games- not bad

    • USER DC on 03/12/2021 - 13:04

      On what plan ?

      $75 one or $85 one?

      • PresidentClinton on 04/12/2021 - 10:28

        75

        • USER DC on 04/12/2021 - 18:09

          Feeling like day light robbery Me on $85 plan Paying them supposidly $5 extra but getting around 50-390 Mbps (No minimum guarantee of speed.

          Feel Like i should have chosen the smaller plan too

  • keyman on 03/12/2021 - 12:52

    Connection is super flaky for me. I'm able to get 100mbps most of the time but every now and then the downstream connection grinds to a halt but funnily enough the upload is still good.

    https://imgur.com/a/6LotFfE

  • USER DC on 03/12/2021 - 13:08

    I am scoring anywhere between 50 Mbps - 399 Mbps downloads Connection speeds vary a lot during the day (usually average would be around 156 Mbps).
    With using Surfshark VPN the speeds drop a futhermore. Very different story different times of day, I wish I opted for the smaller $75 plan, But now stuck with paying them an extra $5/month

    • Buy2Much on 04/12/2021 - 19:48

      Why are you stuck? It's a month to month plan, you can cancel or change at will.

      • USER DC on 04/12/2021 - 19:50

        But if i change it, they will not give the 50% discount and hence will work out at full price of $75 instead of discounted $85 to $42.5

        • Buy2Much on 04/12/2021 - 19:51

          I see what you meant, I have just re-read their T&Cs:

          Discount is forfeited if you cancel early or change plan.

          But it's still cheaper than NBN 50 right? ;-) I'd be happy if it stays above 50Mbps consistently for that price. That was the reason I left Spintel (fluctuated to 20-30 Mbps half the time).

          • USER DC on 05/12/2021 - 21:07

            @Buy2Much: I am putting complaint to them, I am getting this speed (after rainy weather)

            https://www.speedtest.net/result/12424263565

            Will not be interest at maximum speed plan when getting like this 2-10 Mbps at times. They need to honor discounted price on the cheaper plan

            With the NBN the speeds never went this down

            • Buy2Much on 05/12/2021 - 21:13

              @USER DC: Occasionally when it go that low, I'd reboot the modem, usually the speed would go back up to a more reasonable figure.
              Also, I found that if I take the SIM card out before I started the modem again, it'd select the current strongest base station when it started up (I could see a different direction LED lighted up).

              • USER DC on 05/12/2021 - 22:08

                @Buy2Much: As expected from Vodafone Typical

                REASON getting this speed because Planned outage going on since 3 days (never informed about it)
                WONT GIVE COMPENSATION IF You aren't paying for the service (Because 1st month is free I dont get any credit for future)
                Wont give me 50% discount if they change my maximum speed ($85) plan to basic speed ($75) plan
                They dont understand that someone paying for the $85 plan is expecting to get always more than what the Basic speed person gets (i.e. always >100 Mbps)
                Their whole company is rubbish on credits.

                I definitely would never ever pay the maximum $$ plan on any vodafone product in future.

                At least I am lucky I got NBN still running for this month due to Exetel's 30 days cancellation notice policy

  • Will630 on 17/12/2021 - 10:19

    This deal has back to alive again, however it is only available in store.

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