The three options who carry the iPhone 3G are Telstra (the incumbent), Optus and Vodafone.
- Telstra is a miss. They are generally incompetent, overpriced and an arrogant company. You can get, say, an $89 plan which includes 107 MB (WTF?), though you can buy a "browsing pack" to increase the pitiful data allowance (most useful: 1 GB for $89, 3 GB for $119).
- Optus is promising, but the only plans with even 1 GB data are the $100 pre-paid plan and the $149 post-paid plan.
- Vodafone was hoped to have much better pricing, but they are even worse than Optus, with the cheapest plan with 1 GB data being $169. What a joke. They don't say how much excess data costs; not even in the fine print.
All in all, I'm reminded why Australia is often seen as a backwater country. No decent data plans to be seen at all.
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Gotowned.
Jailbreak one and get a 'normal' plan that doesn't include the insane prices for an iPhone?
You could take a pointer from your northern cousins. Our only GSM carrier had outrageous prices. More than 30,000 people signed a petition, and they relented to give us what most feel are acceptable prices. See http://www.ruinediphone.com/ for details.
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