Snappy pricing unveiled on Next G smartphones
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There’s no denying Aussies love their smartphones. Combining the capabilities of a mobile phone and small PC these devices make it easy to social network, run apps, email and browse the web on the run.
They’re so popular, they now make up more than half of our handset sales to post-paid customers.
And with the calendar ticking over to a new financial year, we thought we’d mix things up a bit by making smartphones even more affordable on Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network.
Here’s what’s available on our new Next G™ Cap Plans from today:
- Drops to $0 upfront on a $49 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $0 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (Min Cost $1176)
- Powered by Android 2.1 and HTC Sense
- Exclusive to Telstra
- Get $400 of standard national voice calls, SMS, MMS and video calls to any Australian network + 200MB of data to use in Australia
- Goes to $0 upfront on a $49 Cap Plan (24 month term), from MRO only (Min Cost $1176)
- Slide out QWERTY keyboard and 5MP camera with flash
- Drops to $0 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $0 upfront on a $99 Cap Plan (Min Cost $1896)
- Android Smartphone
- 8.1MP camera
- Get $750 of standard national voice calls, SMS, MMS and video calls to any Australian network + 500MB data to use in Australia
- Drops to $0 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $0 upfront on a $99 Cap Plan (Min cost $1896)
- 4.3” capacitive touch screen
- New iPhone 3GS 8GB now $0 upfront on a $49 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $0 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (Min Cost $1176)
- iPhone 3GS 16GB now $0 upfront on a $49 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $395 outright on a $49 Cap Plan (Min Cost $1176)
- iPhone 3GS 32GB now $0 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (24 month term) from $329 upfront on a $79 Cap Plan (Min Cost $1896)
As well as picking up a great deal on the latest smartphones you also get a connection to Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network – Telstra Next G™ network.
A great price on a new smartphone and plan is only the start. Next G™ smartphone customers also get:
- A fast network: The Next G™ network is Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network, delivering the speeds needed to surf the web quickly, to stream video with less buffering, and to upload pictures to Facebook in a flash.
- Great coverage: With a coverage footprint more than twice as large as the next largest 3G network in Australia and deeper in-building coverage, you can connect your smartphone in more places.
- Free-to-browse content: There’s also a large range of unmetered BigPond® entertainment – clearly marked with a ‘green dot’ – including news and sports reports.
- Free social networking with TRIBE®: Telstra’s new Tribe® service offers free-to-browse social networking within Australia by bringing together Facebook®, Twitter and MySpace in a single mobile portal location.
More information at our Next GTM Cap Plans can be found online.
You can now register your interest in Apple iPhone 4 on the Telstra Next G™ network by visiting here.
*sigh* six months into our 24 month contract with two mobiles we ‘have to’ pay for month to month that were the most basic phones you could get at the time and now we see phones like these FREE on the same plans – this really does make you want to come into your local T-Shop and throw your phone and contract at them!
I don’t suppose there is any chance of a phone upgrade without penalty?
Hey Nathan, these are pretty good deals! Great work!
-Chris
I know it is probably asking too much, but how come the new LG optimus is priced same as HTC desire? dont you want to sell it?
I think either you need to give extra or else LG optimus will just become stock item in the near future.
Its great to see Telstra finally (very long due) become competitive.
I am sure now Telstra need to really become more competitive and pro-active in price wise because of the level playing field that the NBN forced it to.
This is all well and good….
BUT how about doing what Virgin has done. Make some GOOD smartphone plans that are Data focused and NOT calls (having only 200mb on a $49 plan is CRIPPLING the full use of all the smartphone features with more and more Cloud services having to be turned off because of ‘data use’)
No International calls included in the CAPS which is diverting most of the customers to other carriers. No free calls from T to T.
Well spotted, Stefan. Telstra (aka The Thief) also knows that data is the prize package; that is why the so-called ‘competitive’ new plans are call-centric. Remember Trujillo’s pay-out? Pigs and troughs come to mind…
Totally agree with Antoni.
About time for some competition in the mobile industry…
Who ever is making these decisions, I will like to put up a challenge: Beat Virgin’s smartphone plan and you will get our $$$
Forget international calls. how about 13 numbers? i am sure that’s doable. when you put in change in the parking meter and get no ticket out of it, you have to ring 13 number to complain. Guess what? with NextG cap, not only have you lost your parking money, you will also be charged for your call, which will take you about 10-15 minutes before some answers them.
May be an add-on international value pack would be good, similar to nextG prepaid plan?
I am curious why the iPhone 3GS 8GB and 16Gb are exactly the same price: $0 on the $49 plan with total cost of $1176 over contract term?
The new 8GB 3GS is much cheaper for users and Telstra to buy than the 16GB so why not offer it on a cheaper plan ?
WoW Great deals on the $49.00 caps .. now if only the telstra staff in telstra shops knew about it or believed me when i told them that they were advertised on their own website. So excited when i saw the deals online at telstra last night got straight up to be in the Cairns telstra shop at 9.am. I asked her about the deal and she told me there wasnt one i still had to pay an amount (think she said $20.00) every month.. that there was no iphone 3gs 16g for free on the $49.00 cap wouldnt belive me there was, so i went next door to fone zone where they knew all about it . I purchased 2x 16g 3 gs iphones on the cap (also opened and bundled my services) and got my mum to sign up for a new telstra broadband… all of this the telstra shop missed out on doing bcause she wouldnt listen or check.. went back to the telstra shop after purchasing from f.z and was told by another staff member that he was aware of the deal but that all Telstra shops were different and they didnt have to offer it .. Is this correct ? I found this (and their dont care attitude) to be amazing!! Decided to do a little test went to Smithfield shopping centre and went to the Telsta shop there asked the same question of the male staff member and was told there was absolutely No Deal where the 3gs iphone was free on the $49. cap , although at least after i insisted he was going to look up the telstra site, untill a female staff member interupted him and told him i was correct about the deal… PLEASE TELL ME how can these staff members all know so much less than me about the product they are selling and especially the Cairns store is anyone going to get some re-training out of this , It took all the excitement out of getting our new phones to be treated so poorly
@Stefan Totally agree with you. It burns me that I use my phone more for data than calls, but have such a low cap.
So where are the price drops on just phones? Why is it that so many of you phone companies assume people can’t afford to buy a phone outright. I buy all my phones like this so I’m not locked in to a particular provider.
When you compare the Telstra iPhone plans to those offered by Optus, Telstra aren’t even in the hunt with price or data levels. But for people in rural areas they are stuck with just one option.
Competition in telecommunications? Crap, it just doesn’t exist.
Hi, I think that telstra should bring back what they used to have a few years ago with been able to upgrade ya phones without all these upgrade penalties that they have now. It’s rediculous, I mean if we are still willing to pay money to you guys for a better service then why not let us. The only thing was when they used to allow you to upgrade the phone had to be of a higher value. So please have a look at it, as i know other companies offer there customers to upgrade.
I would love to upgrade my phones, and wasnt aware until recently that I wasnt able to unless i wanted to pay all these penalties, and fees.
Great to see the price drop on these smartphones to sensible plans. But wheres the data?
200Mb as opposed to competition offerings of 500Mb+
Smartphones need data., thats why they are manufactured and designed that way..
Telstra, you were so close to the competition, why did you stop?
Surely you could offer much better data packages to these plans than offered?
What EVERYONE using this site must remember is that Telstra WILL NOT LISTEN to your concerns. Telstra cares only for their shareholders (though even that is suspect) and their bloated management hierarchy. Look at Sol Trujillo’s payout. Actually don’t, it’s too depressing. You will NEVER get the plan you want; not on Bigpond, your phone or anywhere. You are merely there to be gouged repeatedly with their customer-unfriendly plans and charges.
what on earth are you all on about? The included data on the $49 cap may be low for high end users, but there is nothing stopping you from upgrading the data pack – an extra $10 gets you up to 500mb. If you’re nuts, you can go up by $89 for 9 gb! There are options!
Ash.. check things out first before you say Telstra gives you good data. we know they don’t (yes I am still on Telstra at the moment.. but…
in the mean time.. the new Virgin Smart Cap $49.00 plan gives you a meager 2GB of data plus $250 worth of calls and unlimited SMS to Aussie Phones
Finally a great $79 cap deal. I wonder if this will stay for the iPhone4??
When I last looked at Telstra for my business phones it was going to cost us $120p/m for the same as VF could offer for $79 but now 16mths into a 24mth VF Contract and my $79VF Cap 3G has died.
So now not only do I not get signal inside my house from VF (IN A SUBURB OF PERTH MIND YOU) but I have an iPhone that I am contracted to and VF refuse to repair. Oh well only 8 months to go.
hey there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the NextG cap plans
telstra are giving way bette value these days then they did compared to the past.
Gotta give them credit for that. Hopefully with the unveiling of the iPhone 4′s will give them another chance to update the data allowances on the cap plans.
It’s getting really competitive in the market now …
Mike.. there is something wrong with their NextG Cap plans…
What’s the point of having NextG data speeds IF THERE’S NOT ENOUGH DATA in the plans to use…
They keep pushing things like Foxtel etc on the phones. but no one can afford to watch more than 5 mins a month because you get almost NO DATA allowance………
gwmbox (2/7/10) – I know your pain – a MONTH into a 24 month $79 Next G cap plan with Telstra and they bring out these new plans – am I royally p!@##ed!! – I paid $149 for my iphone + have to pay $10 a month for data ($89 a month all up). Now for $49 I can get the phone for nothing + almost the same amount of calls + data is included (more data than I am getting for my $10 extra !@@#). Now, I know deals change & I accept the money I paid for the phone – that was the deal at the time – but a $79 cap plan should be a $79 cap plan and they should not be able to rip existing customers off by giving a lot more to people who sign up on a $79 cap plan now compared to those that did so just a few weeks ago. Does Telstra care – not likely! I am getting royally ripped off for almost 2 years – 2 years to stew and hope one of the other carriers comes up with a 1/2 way reasonable rural service – because if they do, even though I have been with them for over 30 years, Telstra can shove their mobile service wherever they like!
well said both Debbie 28/7 and gwmbox 2/7.
In the same boat, would love to UPGRADE to a better phone plan but unable to do so as on a 24 month plan so informed will have to cancel existing plan for a 300 buck fee.
What garbage, the phone I have is an el cheapo so they will make a lot more out of me with a new plan.
Some customer service and a bit of nouse would be good.