Comments on: Leaked Telstra iPhone 4 plans

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:41:49 +0000

Telstra don’t offer Visual Voicemail because they make more money from the voice to text 40c per msg if you’re not on one of the ‘plans’. Telstra has always and will always be the most expensive. they love to rip their customers off. I i was given a telstra phone to trial along side my other phone (3) and only found that the telstra phone worked in 2 places that i visit where my 3 phone was on roaming. I don’t visit those places very often so that wasn’t enough to convert me. but i DID find some places my 3 phone worked that the telstra phone did not…
I’m moving from 3 to vodafone soon so i’m not a 3 fanboy… So the “coverage” BS they feed you isn’t enough to get me to pay more for mobile…

By: Stuart Rowe

Stuart Rowe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:02:17 +0000

Oh I have been staying tuned since I lined up at 2am at T-Life for the original iPhone 3G…..

But thanks for your somewhat promising response…. but two years is a long time to wait when Voda has had it for most of that time.

By: KristenBoschma

KristenBoschma — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:24:21 +0000

Hi Stuart and Dan

I know this is a source of frustration. I honestly can’t tell you why we don’t offer this yet BUT I can share with you part of an official email thingy/update I got this morning:

“Telstra doesn’t currently offer visual voicemail on iPhone 4. However, we are looking at offering this in the future and will keep you posted.”

So – stay tuned (again)

Kristen

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:11:29 +0000

I’m sure the reason Telstra hasn’t done it is that there is a substantial cost involved — probably to license the technology from Apple. Why else would Telstra not do it? It’s not like Telstra is shy about putting new technology into their network — they already have one of the world’s most advanced mobile networks. Presumably they’ve done the sums and decided the actual customer demand for visual voicemail isn’t as great as the cost of implementing VVM.

By: Stuart Rowe

Stuart Rowe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:58:00 +0000

So the question remains..

When will telstra enable Visual Voicemail on the iPhone… Why does it keep getting overlooked?

The components are surely there with the introduction of Myconnect and t-Hub… T-Hub even has it…

Or is that the issue?? Telstra you are oh so close… finally some good prices, by far the best network… now just this final hurdle.

By: KristenBoschma

KristenBoschma — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:27:48 +0000

Hi Angus

We launched the Apple iPhone 4 plans on this site this morning. Here’s the link to our front page”

http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2010/07/27/the-iphone-effect/

Cheers

Kristen

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:42:33 +0000

Kristen you posted above that, “When they launch, we think the new iPhone 4 plans will be very competitive”, but with the announcement today in another post in this blog we see mention of the standard NextG cap plans but nothing about new iPhone plans. Are they on the way too?

By: Sian Smith [Telstra Employee]

Sian Smith [Telstra Employee] — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:22:00 +0000

I would just like to add to my previous comment that although I am a Telstra employee (I thought that would come up automatically!), I formed this opinion before I got a job at Telstra and it is based purely on my own personal opinion and experience.

By: Sian Smith [Telstra Employee]

Sian Smith [Telstra Employee] — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:20:07 +0000

I, personally, am on tenterhooks waiting for the release of Telstra’s iPhone 4 plans. I’ve been with Vodafone for my mobile services for at least 5 years. I was living in Rivervale (ten minutes from the city of Perth) and all was fine and dandy, in fact I’ve just LOVED having Visual Voicemail, which was one of the biggest perks of being with Vodafone (and a fact I’ve lorded over my friends many a time!). Then I moved to Gosnells (awful in and of itself, but that’s a story for a different place and time) and I was horrified to discover that I no longer had the same kind of coverage I was used to. In fact, it reminded me of being back on my very first mobile phone, which was a Phillips Savvy back when I was 15 years old! I’d walk from one end of the house to the other while on a call only to have it drop out. 3G? What 3G? I’m on Edge and don’t get 3G service until somewhere near Cannington when I’m on the train in the morning (it then drops out again and comes back somewhere near Oats Street). I’ve repeatedly looked at my phone to see the dreaded “No Service” and it drives me nuts! It’s not like I moved to a rural area, I’m only 30 minutes from the city in a different suburb of Perth!

So I was left with a choice…keep enjoying Visual Voicemail or give it up, move to Telstra and get on their NextG network. At the end of the day, coverage is what matters to me. So I eagerly await the release of the new iPhone plans, if they’re anything like what they were in that “leak” I will happily pay my ETC with Vodafone in order to switch networks. Would I get 250MB less of data per month if I was on the $79 plan compared to what I’m getting now? Yes. Would I be willing to pay that kind of “premium” in order to get service on my mobile phone in my house? Ummmm, hell yes!

That’s my $0.02.

By: robbie boy

robbie boy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:47:14 +0000

So my question is will you let loyal customers pre order instead of going into t-life? I registered about a month ago and still no news on any plans.