How Australia's $49B internet network came to be ridiculed

Re:How Australia's $49B internet network came to be ridiculed by Gatsky on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:28PM (#15565206)

It's not exactly 'cheap', but if you need 100-140Gb a month there are data only sims for $70 monthly from Optus and resellers. They guarantee minimum 12Mbps supposedly. In metro areas with the latest LTE modems people are pulling 200Mbps down.

If you need lots of data though, the cost becomes less viable.

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Re:How Australia's $49B internet network came to be ridiculed by chrismorgan on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:33AM (#15567401)

Optus’s 100GB (if paid monthly)/140GB (if paid annually) plan: http://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/mobile-broadband/data...

When I was investigating this stuff six months ago, I believe these plans were somewhat different (and indeed the Critical Information Summaries for them seem to have dates of May and July), with only the first month being cheaper or having as much data or something. (That the month-to-month one still uses the wording “$70 for the first month” on the marketing page makes me uneasy, but I don’t think there’s a catch, I think it’s merely outdated wording.)

I shall consider switching from amaysim to Optus.

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