Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007 at 15:57
I dealt with Telstra direct ... I'll give you the drum. This 3 or so months ago.
I was on a CDMA phone - I had a call from them asking if I was happy. I said it annoyed me that just because I was on CDMA I couldn't have a cap arrangement like I used to have with Voda and thus my calls were getting obscene some months.
They said, sorry that's the way it is one too many times, and I kept at 'em and the guy said, we do do caps on Next-G - I could upgrade you to Next-G for free and put you on a plan.
I said, tell me more. By the end of the deal (it took them 1 hour to explain all the ins and outs, and to set up for me to get a new phone and to agree to a contract as basica as it was), and I was on a $79/month cap. One question was do I want a data pack - I said, not really - I will just use it casually, thinking I would be using the browser on the phone occasionally.
Well, the phone arrives, with a data cable so I try it out - works a treat. I was away on business and had a lot more business going on, so I connect up and use it for about 3 hours - I had been told the cost is "usually between $1 and $2 per minute". Okay I thought, this is good everything is going fine.
Bill comes and knocks me off the chair - $600 worth of data usage (photographers use a lot of GB when it comes fast). I call up Telstra and say, this is not that good - 10x what I was thinking - 5x anyways, and this is just raping me.
Guys goes away and comes back and says, okay - we'll scrub that part and put you on a data pack - I went for the $49 pack which gets added to the phone usage. It is somewhat described here: Site Link although I am on business plans and the $49 is lots more GB and lots less per MB. I can turn it on and off without a problem - no plan for this part of it.
Call before your CDMA plan runs out too ...
I hope that helps
Andrew.
FollowupID:
484019