Optus-owned Virgin Mobile has become the fourth Australian mobile carrier to get its hands on the iPhone. It will sell the handheld device on August 1.
According the staff at Virgin, you can get the 8GB version for $0 upfront if they sign a 24-month contract for $70 per month, which gives them $520 worth of calls and text and 1GB of data capacity – and you can upgrade it to 2GB for an additional $15 per month ($85 in total).
It has been confirmed the Optus, Vodafone and Telstra will sell the Blackberry Bold, but only Optus and Telstra have confirmed plans.
The Optus plans will have the phone at the earliest on August 20 for $10 a month over a 24 month contract under its Blackberry $79 cap plan.
Optus has revealed today that they will be launching brand new unlimited mobile pricing plans, that will include unlimited calls (including video calls) and SMS/MMS, plus large data usage allowances.
Dubbed the ‘yes’ Timeless plans, they will also be available for iPhone purchasers too – but without the MMS, Push to Talk or video calling since the iPhone has not supported it (which I think its crap for not supporting it – I’m still thinking of getting one though).
Gold Coast City Council has admitted that it was in charge of a project that cut the cables on Optus’ main fibre cable, leaving many Queenslanders without any landline, mobile or internet connections.
This is a Developing Story. Check back here once in a while for more added content about the QLD outage.
Whirlpool is reporting that Optus is experiencing a major outage in Queensland and in Northern New South Wales because of simultaneous network failures.
Whirlpool is reporting that Optus is experiencing a major outage in Queensland and in Northern New South Wales because of simulatneous network failures.
According to them, a fibre link between the two states were damaged at the same time when its hardware failed. It affects all services, including internet access, mobile and landlines. This is also affecting all other ISPs who rely on the link.
Optus has confirmed that its retail stores are experiencing problems signing up customers to the iPhone because there are difficulties with the internal customer network – since many are signing up across the nation to get the phone.
Analysts over at Citibank have said that Optus offers the most flexible and best value deals for the iPhone, which will go on sale tomorrow at midnight at Optus’ store in Sydney.
After 16 years of competition on the telecommunications industry, Optus has said in a submission to the government on the regulation of the fibre-optic broadband network.
It has said that "16 years after deregulation, Telstra continues to dominate the fixed-line sector and the current regulatory framework has proved to be incapable of effectively regulating". Telstra currently resells the network to all telecommunication rivals, since it was partly owned by the government.
Optus has revealed their pricing, following Telstra’s announcement of the pricing of the popular phone. The carrier is offering a couple of plans, but all are under a 24 month contract.
I’ve had reports from Terence, that Optus has had a little screw up in their system. Look at the attached image, boy hasn’t Terence used a lot of offpeak!
In my opinion, TYPICAL OPTUS!
Singapore Telecommunications, or SingTel, has announced that it would be selling the iPhone in Singapore and many other markets with its associates.
The markets as of press time have been said on a press release were India, via the Bharti Group, The Philippines by Globe Telecom.
Optus has announced that it will expand its 3G network coverage to 98 percent by next year and will bring its speeds up to 42Mbps by 2010, to compete with Telstra.
Chief Executive for Optus Paul O’Sullivan has said that the Federal Government offer a five-month extension for all bidders for the new national broadband contract or will face a boycott.
The $4.7 billion national broadband contract would see those bidding creating a new high-speed network that will reach 98 percent of Australia’s population. The price is expected to be twice that amount, with the government pouring in $4.7 billion into the plan.
Optus has this weird thing on your internet where you have to pay an extra 15c for every MB, with a maximum of 2GB. This is absurd, and outrageous.
It’s just another money-making scheme, where we are in a middle of paying higher interest rates and many of us losing our homes or have to cut back spending. These, however, are making additional hell. And I’m facing it.