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$10 Per Month Postpaid Mobile Plan with 2GB Data Full Speed (Unlimited Data at 1Mbps) @ Dodo

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$10 Per Month Postpaid Mobile Plan with 2GB Data Full Speed (Unlimited Data at 1Mbps) @ Dodo
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easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:16 dodo.com (2286 clicks)
Last edited 17/04/2023 - 12:53 by 2 other users

Having tried optus capped speed at 1Mbps and been able to watch netflix/Stan etc without any issues for 1 person, this is a good deal for 1 person to use (i.e. student, grandma, etc) if you are on a tight budget and cant afford to pay for Nbn etc.

No data rollover on this $10 per month plan.

All Plans Include

  • Unlimited calls, text and MMS.
  • Month-to-month plans, no excess data charges or bill shock
  • All on the Optus 4G network
  • Free SIM & fast shipping

What happens if I use all my data?
Once you have used all your data your speed will slow to 1 Mbps. What’s great here is you won’t be charged any excess data fees! If you’re on an eligible Dodo mobile plan, you can purchase add on packs through your My Dodo account. Simply select your mobile service, then click the "Buy Add Ons" button.

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  • CaptainCoolio on 16/04/2023 - 20:23
    +30

    $120 per year for 24Gb “full speed”. Seems like you’d be much better off buying a 365 day plan and get at least 90Gb for the year for same price.

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:25
      +27

      Ive been able to get over 400gb per month on a capped speed of 1Mbps

      This could be used as a home broadband substitute for one person if used for basic internet surfing, streaming apps and downloading content while sleeping.

      • Bii on 16/04/2023 - 21:20
        +7

        1 Mbps was the speed Dodo provided 10 years ago and at the price of current basic NBN. You could barely watch 480p videos.

        This seems a good option for kids or elders who don't need to care about their monthly quotas

      • dcep on 16/04/2023 - 22:33
        +1

        Yeah, i did just that with the Telstra data sim on dongle.

        but not sure about this optus whether it bans device without phone imei

      • liongalahad on 17/04/2023 - 02:22
        +5

        1Mbps? What year is it? 2003?

        • alenpln on 17/04/2023 - 11:33
          +3

          In 2003 there was no unlimited data on mobile phones full stop.

          1mbit per person is enough for everything except quality video streaming. And for this price it's a good value

          • SimAus007 on 18/04/2023 - 07:02
            +1

            @alenpln: This is terrible value, I've managed to get 10GB per month at full speed on the Optus network for less than $10/month for the last 3 years in a row with no speed limit ($119 per year - 120GB).
            1Mbos speeds are ridiculous in 2023, much rather 10GB at full speed.
            Or if you're in a major city, take a look at TPG which gives you even more data.

            • Ronnnie on 18/04/2023 - 11:14
              +2

              @SimAus007: However i can see how It could be better value than your 10gb per a month deal since you have to buy more data once you have utilised your 120 gb of data up. Since even at this speed you could download multiple gigs per a day. Lets say hypothetically a user downloaded 1 gb per a day (still easy enough to do at this speed) on this plan. 1gb/day x365 = 365. Therefore they have got triple the data for same price.

              An ozbargain user that gets a few dollars given to them everytime they get one of those boost startup sim packs probably would consider paying anymoneys for mobile data a poor value proposition. Lol

        • Ronnnie on 17/04/2023 - 14:36
          +2

          Back in the year 2003 phone plans were expensive. You paid for texting and calling was charged by the duration plus a flagfall fee for each call.

          I recall finding a similar plan to this in later 2000s, it was $79 month, but the unlimited part slowed the connection to 64Kbps.. remember how slow 2g was?

          In 2023 $10 doesn't get you much really. Nothing compares with this deal in 2003. Even home internet for most sucked and cost more than this for similar speeds.

        • liongalahad on 17/04/2023 - 17:47
          +3

          it's really sad that here in Australia people salivates over 1Mbps unlimited internet, when in places in Europe (Italy for example), you have 300 GB/month at full 4G or even 5G speed (100-150 Mbps with 4G, 4-500 Mbps with 5G) for 10 euros. I mean, WTF.

          • Ronnnie on 18/04/2023 - 02:08
            +2

            @liongalahad: I'm just glad we aren't paying 2003 prices. An adsl home connection back then could cost 100+ a month. And 256Kbps was considered adsl. Also you didn't get unlimited data. Mobile phones back then could barely do anything, so didn't really needed anything other than 2g. By the time next G started to roll out in 2006 thats when speeds were getting really serious. Lmao

            • liongalahad on 18/04/2023 - 11:54

              @Ronnnie: geez thank f*** , that was 20 years ago, it's the absolute minimum we dont pay 20 years ago prices

              1 Mbps in 2023 as the way to go for having cheap internet is, in my opinion, disgraceful and underlines the failure of a country as whole. Im pretty sure we in Aus are one of the worst countries in the world on this perspective - cheap fast mobile internet should be the basics for a well functioning modern society. It is in most countries, even countries much less developed than us.

      • Kiro on 17/04/2023 - 16:39

        This is the way

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 20:28
      +1

      If you don't mind, which 365 day plan are you referring to? I can't see any on dodo.

    • cakesyy on 17/04/2023 - 08:23
      -1

      This has unlimited data, so no. What a silly suggestion.

      • Gavman on 17/04/2023 - 11:12
        +8

        at 1mbps its hardly unlimited anything… like saying u can run as far as u like but well cut off ur legs at the knees…

    • HeWhoKnows on 17/04/2023 - 14:27
      +3

      Agreed its a terrible plan
      And being postpaid, Dodo can hit you with all sorts of extra charges

      Buyer beware when it comes to dodo!

    • rbrtsluk on 17/04/2023 - 15:47
      +2

      I just bought the kogan mobile deal again $180 year works out to be $15mth for 17gb mth never had problems

      • SimAus007 on 19/04/2023 - 09:45
        +1

        Yep, that's much better.
        Or TPG currently offer 45GB per month for the first 6 months at $15/month - just port out after 6 months (we are all used to SIM slutting on OB)

  • deme on 16/04/2023 - 20:24
    +1

    Also says:
    Unlimited calls, text and MMS. See inclusions

  • 0jay on 16/04/2023 - 20:26
    +4

    Seems like you’d be much better off buying a 365 day plan

    While this is fair, suggested use-case was a scenario where speed was more or less irrelevant, therefore unlimited (even mainly at 1Mbps) might be the better deal.

    • CaptainCoolio on 16/04/2023 - 20:29
      +1

      Possibly, but I doubt the grandma user in this use case could use the full 90Gb per year (if not more) you’d get on most plans for this price, so let her have full speed!! 😃

      • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:31
        +12

        Most grandma now binge on netflix, stan etc.

        • dbmitch on 16/04/2023 - 20:47
          +2

          Correct, and they play show after show, they stream so much, they need that data.

          Just ask my old man, He'll have Kayo on all day every day just for the atmosphere.

        • bchliu on 16/04/2023 - 21:26
          +1

          TVB Anywhere. Lol

        • liongalahad on 17/04/2023 - 02:26

          You won't be able to stream Netflix with 1MBps, I would imagine

          • Bullion78 on 17/04/2023 - 09:10

            @liongalahad: All streaming services used to work just fine for me without any stuttering at 500mbps when Telstras Xtra Small plan was capped after 5gb of data being used up. It just took a while to load up initially but but the picture whike obs not being 4k was very watchable.

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:30
      +1

      Ive been able to hack some providers capped speeds in the past by finding the right access point.

      Yet to try on dodo

      • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 20:33
        +1

        would appreciate it if you posted some guides. however that might make them close the loophole.

        • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:35
          +12

          Guides mean closing loopholes.

          I once hacked an unactivated vodafone sim for data and was able to use it for 6 months before they found out lol, but that loophope has been closed

          • shxhshzhz on 16/04/2023 - 20:37

            @easternculture: did they try charging you for it?

          • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 20:39
            +1

            @easternculture: Yeah fair enough. I'm on the Lycamobile $3 sim plan which is always around 1Mbps although the data allowed is 160GB. I've found that some torrent however runs at 20Mbps, so I've been downloading loads of stuff. I don't have wifi at this rental place so that's ok for my content consumption.

            • Agret on 16/04/2023 - 21:13

              @levqchi: Try a few different VPNs and see if you can get faster speed for web browsing on it.

              https://www.softether.org/

              There's a few free public servers on this and the software let's you connect with a heap of different protocol options so try them out maybe one will be a success.

              • baybaboy on 17/04/2023 - 22:54
                +1

                @Agret: With the right vpn protocols and settings, you can even get data to work on a unactivated Sims with great speed.

          • xyron on 16/04/2023 - 20:48
            +1

            @easternculture: I did something like this too with a Vodafone SIM circa 2005…had a Sony Ericsson P800

            • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:52
              +1

              @xyron: Yeh me too. I used a nokia D211 modem and i still have it.

              Those were the good days

          • Agret on 16/04/2023 - 21:12
            +1

            @easternculture: I did that back on my Nokia phone with 3G like 20yrs ago, could use the Vodafone MMS apn and anything that wasn't port 80 was not counted towards your data usage. I think my prepaid was something like $2 per 5mb or 10mb back then.

  • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 20:41
    +4

    This is actually not horrible. I might jump onto this after the lycamobile deal runs out, and after 3 months of half price felix mobile that I have yet to claim.

  • AustriaBargain on 16/04/2023 - 20:44
    +1

    Mmm, not 5G though. I still think Telstra's $25 a month offer which comes with 30GB of 5G and then shaped to 1.5Mbps is worth considering. It used to be $15 a month 😖

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:46

      I have telstra 5G on one sim and reception/speeds are shocking in my area. Most of the times, my other amaysim 4G sim data is faster

      • fozzie on 16/04/2023 - 22:20

        If you have capped speed what’s the point of 5g?

        • joshx on 16/04/2023 - 23:02
          +2

          In theory, latency?

        • [Deactivated] on 17/04/2023 - 00:21
          -6

          There's no point in 5G period lol. Every "improvement" to mobile service since analog days has actually been a decline in quality/service, starting with CDMA.

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 20:48

      I don't even have a 5G phone :(

    • dbmitch on 16/04/2023 - 20:48
      +12

      I don't think you need 5G speeds at 1mbps lol

      • AustriaBargain on 16/04/2023 - 21:29

        If it's going to shaped download to my phone slowly then it may as well do it as fast as possible.

    • bchliu on 16/04/2023 - 21:27
      +1

      I'm gonna kill off one of my Telstra XS accounts and get this instead..

    • ATangk on 16/04/2023 - 21:51

      If it were 5G you’d burn through that data so fast.

    • toasty on 16/04/2023 - 22:56

      Is the Telstra $25 plan still available?

      • AustriaBargain on 16/04/2023 - 23:24
        -1

        Sure is. Telstra stopped charging excess data fees and stopped locking people into contracts, they have really changed a lot of their scummy practices since I was a kid. They are still relatively expensive but imo it's worth it, if you can afford it and you are in an area they give good coverage.

        • Guybrush57 on 16/04/2023 - 23:41

          That's a data only plan though. This is for calling and texting.

          • AustriaBargain on 16/04/2023 - 23:49

            @Guybrush57: Oh right, I thought it said mobile data. Anyway like I said Telstra is more expensive, probably the most expensive option in the country.

    • cakesyy on 17/04/2023 - 08:26

      The one that charges you to send an SMS 25c???

      https://www.telstra.com.au/help/critical-information-summari…

      • AustriaBargain on 17/04/2023 - 11:35

        Well it is a data only sim, the phone number you get with it is probably justo to help you all identify which SIM it is. Probably just a quirk that it can even send a SMS at all.

  • froogletom on 16/04/2023 - 20:52
    +3

    2gb a month is already unlimited for me 😂

  • DemocracyManifest on 16/04/2023 - 20:56
    +1

    That’s a good deal

  • ThatsCheap on 16/04/2023 - 20:58
    +2

    When does this deal end? My current plan expires end of April.

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 20:59
      +2

      Its their normal plan. It just has never been posted here

  • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/04/2023 - 21:02
    +7

    Tight. Been using the Optus 12.50 deal w/ the Samsung tablet for the last year at the back half of the house where the main hotspot doesn't reach, it dips to 1.5mbs when you go over. We used that the other day to watch Transformers on Stan. Took a sec to load but honestly ran fine. Might give this one a look when that deal ends. Cheers OP, nice to have a real number included too tbh.

    Fast speed is nice and all, but people really do forget what you can do with slower speeds. I run my entire house (no one is in the back half most of the time, so the afformentioned Optus thing is more of a backup than anything) off a 20mbs Felix mobile hotspot'd phone. Got 2 security cameras, several Xboxes, 3 Alexa machines, countless portables, and so on connected at any given time, and a baby monitor. Gets by fine, happily watch 4K streams on Disney and the sort, no issues. Only time you notice is when you download, we average around 7ish minutes a gig, which is pretty manageable. I got a Steam Deck a month or two back, downloaded all sorts of shit on it, filled the 500gb card easily, usually crush at least a terabyte a month between us. Downloaded the Avengers game the other day, almost 100gb, threw it on overnight, was done in the morning.

    Won't be going back to home internet until they come up with something significantly better, or else why would I pay more than the 35 a month I currently do? Which includes my own personal phone no less.

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 21:10
      +2

      20mbs Felix mobile hotspot'd phone

      Same. Been using it for 2 years as primary broadband connection.
      3 ipads, TV, 3 phones sometimes all running same time and never had an issue with speed

      Roughly 900gb per month downloaded data on that sim

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/04/2023 - 22:17

        Noice! I'm about 1.5 years, maybe a bit more, but ballpark there. No complaints at all. Punching away on OzB now on the laptop, got Always Sunny on Disney Plus on the Xbox in the background, about to put the baby down, got his little monitor thing hooked onto it, all actively being used, and passively got the security cams, Alexas, and so on. Great little deal.

      • dingdong3000 on 17/04/2023 - 00:05

        Do you know which 4G modems if any are allowed on felix or must it be tethered via phone? Heard people getting banned from using some devices.

        • 0jay on 17/04/2023 - 14:21

          I wouldn’t mind knowing this too.

          A Huawei E8372h‘d be plenty fast enough to handle 20Mbps and may not identify as a modem

          • Ragzs on 18/04/2023 - 20:37

            @0jay: Trick is to usb tether an old android to a router that has an usb input

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 21:19
      +5

      The felix 20Mbps is more than enough really. That means 2.5MB per second, and 1GB would take 400 seconds (~7 mins) to download, so if that was also your experience, I'd say felix is a much better deal than NBN if you're on a tight budget unless you're streaming 4k or something like that. If felix came out with a plan, say $15 for 5Mbps, I would take that in a heart beat and never look back. That would be enough for youtube 1080p.

      1Mbps however is quite miserable though. It will struggle with 480p video on youtube. Every time you try to seek a video you will have to wait. I'm able to stream Prime video on that speed (despite long initial buffering). However if I can move to a rental place with wifi at home I'll go with $10/1Mbps for sure, since the peace of mind of unlimited data is quite worth the nuisance of slow speed.

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/04/2023 - 22:21
        +3

        Unlimited is the name of the game. Ever since this one time I was a kid, we had 6gb on a USB dongle modem thing, 40 a month, and I went over, and they wanted my dad to pay like 400 bucks or something, they worked it out (aka yelled at them over the phone long enough to basically get it wiped once off lol) but that shit put the fear of God in me. From there went to 100gb Telstra a couple years later when the contract ended, specifically because it said it would slow down but not charge you when you go over. Never been on anything with a limit since, too much risk. Of course, I've always been a prepaid phone person, but still.

        Anyway, keeping on that note, I also use a bunch of stupid and shit devices for various reasons and as such am quite used to low res YouTube as is, mine is set to 360p by default, and that's a stepup from where I used to be a couple years back. Long story short, when my first Chromebook started showing it's age, running 720p YouTube would start to make the computer buckle, so I've been 480 or less for the last 5 years or so, if not more.

        I could defo survive with the $10/1Mbps, but I tell you what, the missus and her tumblr would have a (profanity) meltdown.

    • Bii on 16/04/2023 - 21:32
      +1

      I suggest you invest in a wifi extender or mesh to make the most out of your main broadband tho that you can feel at least 10x faster. Could save a lot of loading time if you surf alot

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/04/2023 - 22:24

        I didn't know if they worked with phones being used as hotspots tbh. But really, it does the job fine, it reaches all the bedrooms, the kitchen, dining, bathroom, etc. of the top half. The back half of our house is a whole other thing, they are legally two separate properties, so I don't expect home internet in either end to reach both. No one's ever really in the second half, it's entirely for my first kiddo from a previous relationship and she's only over here half the time as is so we don't need a new service there, but the Optus deal (which I signed up to for the tablet regardless) has been of decent use down there, so this would be a good replacement. Plus it doesn't hurt to have another phone, only have like (profanity) ten of them at any given time lol.

  • Phoebus on 16/04/2023 - 21:12
    -5

    1mbps is probably fine for 720p YouTube and Netflix

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 21:21
      +3

      It's not. It will struggle with 480p youtube. Keep in mind that 1Mbps is the max speed and it can dip to 0.7Mbps.

    • [Deactivated] on 17/04/2023 - 00:24

      https://approvedmodems.org/is-1-mbps-fast

    • Gavman on 17/04/2023 - 11:15

      it's fine if u dont mind it buffering for 4 hours to watch 30 seconds worth aha

  • Guybrush57 on 16/04/2023 - 21:12

    Can you still get the cheap Belong plan?

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 21:23
      +7

      The cheapest is $25/20GB then cap at 1Mbps. At $25 you might as well throw in another $10 to get felix mobile for unlimited 20Mbps.

      • Oofy Doofy on 17/04/2023 - 01:55

        I liked your comment, BUT you are wrong about one little detail. It's $25 for the first month, then you can step it down to $15 with a lower data quota, and you'll retain the 1Mbps speed cap.

        • ballistykx on 17/04/2023 - 07:51
          +1

          $15/month is no longer available for new subscribers. The lowest is $19 a month for 5GB now.

        • Guybrush57 on 17/04/2023 - 09:40

          How much data did the $15pm plan cost?

      • Ronnnie on 17/04/2023 - 11:50

        I gave up on the Vodafone network. Its unfortunate but in the middle of my regional city their network is often congested and even doing stuff like browsing or streaming at low quality on YouTube is a pain with constant buffering. Belong is better for me because it uses the Telstra network, never had any congestion issues after switching. Always works. Your milage may vary. There's no doubt that Felix can work out way better value if it works for your situation.

    • ozwog05 on 23/04/2023 - 23:24

      If you only require data, Belong have $15/20GB pm shaped to 1Mbps.

  • solacens on 16/04/2023 - 21:18

    Is this long-running or just special deal? I might need to jump on this boat later.

    • easternculture on 16/04/2023 - 21:20
      +1

      Long running

    • levqchi on 16/04/2023 - 21:20
      +1

      It's their normal plan. You have all the time you need.

    • solacens on 16/04/2023 - 21:21

      One day. When I'm running out of Boost mobile profit =]

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