Telstra launches first unlimited mobile plan for business
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Telstra Business has today launched Telstra’s first unlimited 1 mobile plan as part of its Business Mobile PLUS offer and I thought it worth sharing details with you.
- The $180 per month plan includes all standard voice calls, video calls, MMS and SMS to any Australian mobile or fixed number plus unlimited MessageBank™ diversion and retrieval.
- The plan is available for a 12 or 24 month minimum term. 2
- Customers with their own handset will pay $150 per month on a 24 month plan. 3
- Customers with Smartphones also have the choice of a BlackBerry® or Microsoft® email solution or 2.5GB of data for web-based email and internet browsing.
Yasmin Dugan is the Executive Director leading the new plan in Telstra Business and says the new plan gives small businesses cost predictability and greater choice to get the most value from their mobile phones.
“This is the first time Telstra has offered an unlimited mobile plan to our business customers,” Yasmin said. “In addition, customers who switch to Telstra from another provider and take up the unlimited plan for 24 months will receive a bonus credit of $540.”
According to Yasmin, “For busy small business people, mobiles phones are often a lifeline that keeps them connected and their business running. This unlimited plan is ideal for those who make long calls or are heavy users of SMS or MessageBank.
This is the latest offer in the Business Mobile PLUS range that was launched in November last year.
Yasmin said Business Mobile Plus was developed in response to business customers’ requests for simpler, more flexible plans as well as reduced call rates when they combine all their services on one account.
Other key features of Mobile PLUS include free calls in Australia between services on the same account, one rate for both video and voice calls, per second charging, and the ability for users on the same account to share any unused included credit across their services.
Now here’s the fine print from the lawyers:
1 Our FairPlay policy (excluding the provisions pertaining to excessive use) applies
2 Min cost for 12 months is $2,160 plus usage
3 Min cost is $3,600 plus usage
We have tried this plan on one of our mobile telephones and we are still being charged for all calls.
Where is the saving?
Hi Garry, Send me your account and contact number and I’ll have someone look into it for you. Use this online form. P.S love your website. Brendan
I have a small business and I am on unlimited with optus and I have been with them for at least ten years now telstra can’t even compete on price or even want to compete which is there loss .all my phones are with optus now and I won’t even think of going to telstra . My phone bills are half the price of what telstra use to charge me now.
Jason.. here here..
I left TLS much like you .. years ago. Every product TLS offer is substantially more than what similar is available locally. Even when I go overseas I cannot believe how I can buy hardware or get services at low cost. Take a lot of countries with SMS i get unlimited SMS to any network on a prepaid for 30c a day. How do the phone companies justify clocking the SMS rate at .22-.25c? Its been this way for years yet the cost of data has dropped BEYOND what you could term SUBSTANTIALLY lower. I bought a simple Modem/router for what was a RRP through TLS for $450. Huh? standard M/Routers are $50 but i was pigeon holed in the business on that occassion to getting this thing. As for mobiles, im long out using viber, pennytel, Bria application with extra codec via bria, smart voip etc so have multiple options available at my disposal to make calls. Engin have a iphone app which is also great.
Eventually TLS as they are doing is changing their business model as the smaller players bite into each of their core business areas.
Perhaps their arrogance eg. thinking outsourcing calls overseas will help the bottom line yet charge the same HIGH RATE will help. It only infuriated me more and i expect customers.
The thing is the brand. Small business is either ignorant or run off their feet to muck around with any other provider so they pay the going rate. Its really sad .. really is that the small business operator puts so much faith into TLS thinking they might be the only provider when theres so much choice out there.. and then small business charges accordingly on markup to cover the costs or complains about the cost of doing business when small changes like making a shift to another provider are so easy for phone, mobile, internet etc.
My wish is they end up being much like the Blackberry Phone and hopefully the Rubiks Cube.. part of history or a voiceless / powerless company that we dont have to rely on in any shape or form.