Saw this today in local JB HiFi.
When you switch your number to JB HI-FI on a $69 plan over 24 months.
Plan includes unlimited talk & text to standard Australian numbers and 120GB of data for use withing Australia.
Comes to $1656 over 24 months. After you take away $600 voucher it comes to $44 a month.
Excludes current Telstra, JB HI-FI Upfront/Prepaid, The Good Guys Mobile & Broadband and BOOST services.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/15803/105521/600_jb_hi…
or just match Harvey's $850 Fold5 earlier this week
Yeah I do miss the $500 gift card on $59/month on 12 months contract deals. I doubt we gonna see that again!
Ive tried finding the answer online, but no joy.
If you have an existing jb hifi mobile phone plan, can you;
- Sign up for a new service,
- get the gift card,
- and then close the original service and bring that number over to the new plan?
I have done that in the past. It was a pain, but was possible. I heard they don't do that anymore since the new Upfront plans. You might get lucky and find a rep that will do it, but I would not count on it!
+1, did it and felt it was painful enough to not want to do it again!
The one knows how to do it has left Optus because he overworked. :) I made this up btw
Ditto, was a bit of a nightmare. Telstra chat had no idea what i wanted to do and nearly ended up cutting off the new service lol
I have done it in October last year and it was fairly painless process
Did it through chat and it was done in matter of minutes
They've moved to Console since then(entirely different system). A lot of those work arounds are now gone.
New upfront plans won’t let you get a credit on the plan to reduce the monthly cost, like your used to be able to do on the old plans
Wait, are you serious? no more port-in credit from Telstra?
Is there any difference between this service and Telstra's? I mean in coverage..5G usage..?
TIA
Nope - this is a telstra service but you're just signing up from JB
They also have the same mobile plan on 24 month term with $700 towards an iPhone, based on the email I got from JB today. So if you want an iPhone go with that instead of the $600.
The $700 offer expires 6th Aug.
Slightly more expensive plan (if by the very rare chance you need extra data) is running at JBHIFI Airport West in Melbourne at the moment.
$1200 Gift Card w/ $99 plan for 24 months. Works out to $49/month. So $5 extra per month than this deal but you get 300GB data per month.
RIP $500/12Months.
To everyone saying 12 month plans + GC or its not worth it, what plans or offers are you on? Genuinely asking, as just writing a statement doesn't help the OzB spirit
I am currently on the old JB Hi-Fi $69/month w $20 credit for 12 months, alas didn't get the $500 gc only got the $400 but definitely still better value than what is being offered now.
I only need a $15/m Gomo plan for my needs. Have plenty of data banked.
Have previously got the $500/12M JB deal on 2 occasions. But in the true OzB spirit, I only did it to port out after a month or so via Telstra to keep the gift cards, which now can't be done.
It's quick maths mate. 24mth contract means you are paying double for the GC compared to 12mth contracts.
In other words, the GC you receive is half the value compared to people on the 12mth contracts.
E.g:
$400gc - $59/mth - 12mth contract
Vs
$600gc - $69/mth - 24mth contract
=$300gc - $69/mth - 12mth contract
=$256.52gc - $59/mth - 12mth contract
So depending on how good you are with taxes, you are better off just getting a cheap pre-paid SIM at this point. Unless you need the data and don't have internet at home/work.
I've bought 2 of these plans over the past 4 years. better off going with a cheap prepaid plan lol, way cheaper.
really need 12months plan