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  scotty on 20/07/2013 - 22:15

  Amaysim has pretty good service and Pay as You Go is good if you have low usage. However if you are happy with Telstra coverage, why not look at Aldi Mobile's prepaid, which has $15 recharge with 365 days expiry? They are using Telstra network as well.

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    tonester on 20/07/2013 - 22:24

    re aldi - op doesn't like prepaid

    I thought about Boost but I dont like prepaid.

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  retiredfeline on 20/07/2013 - 22:16

  Yup, no catches. You can switch plans anytime, or add a data pack when you need to surf a lot.

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  huntress_love on 20/07/2013 - 22:50

  is amaysim not prepaid because they charge you after you've used the service? The website wasn't all that clear.

  Just asking because i thought maybe OP didn't want to be bothered with recharging each month, if unlimited is cheaper with telstra reseller an auto recharge would work as well for prepaid service.

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    retiredfeline on 20/07/2013 - 23:03

    It is slightly unclear from the website but you can elect to be prepaid or postpaid. Prepaid is the usual. In postpaid, you have to give them a CC (or a DD facility, IIRC) and they will deduct the amount owing, unless it's below a certain amount, $5 I think, in which case they deduct at least every 3 months. But check, it's been a while since I read their site, as I'm prepaid.

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      retiredfeline on 21/07/2013 - 00:18

      Bill is issued when 1 month has passed and usage > $10, or 3 months have passed, whichever happens first.

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    Pumpkin_rrr on 21/07/2013 - 19:55

    I have always been on Post-paid.
    Like to know what I am being charged for to every single minute detail;
    the call number, time, duration etc.
    Cant do that with Prepaid.
    The keyword is "control".
    With prepaid, I feel I have no control whatsoever.
    I give Prepaid SIM to my visitors from overseas. Works well for them for 2 weeks or less.
    Being a local, I find it hard to operate like that.
    Maybe I am too old??

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      retiredfeline on 22/07/2013 - 11:01

      On the other hand postpaid means there is no limit to the spending, whereas with prepaid, the spending stops when your credit runs out. Sounds like less control to me. If your visitors run out of credit, tell them to buy a recharge themselves. Or is that too unkind of a host?

      Also you can get all the call details you want from your account at the website. But what's the big deal when Amaysim charges a flat 12c/minute, no flagfall for local calls so the only thing that affects the cost is the duration of the call?

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  srhardy on 21/07/2013 - 10:39

  Stay with the telstra network and go one of the following (if you need a new mobile just buy a telstra prepaid handset and use one of these sims)

  aldi have 2 offers, unlimited for high users and yearly credit for low users
  kogan for high users, prepay 12 months and pay $25 a month for unlimited
  thinkmobile classic offers, not prepaid but plan with month to month
  boost, unlimited telsta 3G with full speed 3G, not capped like the others

  telstra prepaid ENCORE cap is good value, you get 4G coverage and can buy apps from the google store or data/talk text with the recharge credit (you just use up the bonus credit for talk, text and excess data until its all gone). You can recharge on the 12 month credit one too and then swap via #100#send to the SIMPLICITY call rate over the 12 month trick, your credits good for 12 months but you get the cheaper call rates of simplicity that seriously gives you much more talk time! From 99c/pm to 12c p/m!!!

  Boost/Telstra rpepaid give you more coverage but most find the limited speed and lower coverage to be a fair trade off for some sweet deals

  AND if you want to goto the OPTUS network checkout vaya.net.au and liveconnected.com.au. The 3G $15 LC offer is pretty sweet… Catch is that you can go over and if your in the city and get 4G (on vaya) and use data or have a bad app/stuck email then excess data charges sucks!

  Prepaid with unlimited is always the smart, no surprise way to go IMO and on T$P/P you can use the original credit for apps in google, or data/text and talk, even foxtel tv (unmetered) not bad…

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  zfa on 22/07/2013 - 10:56

  I had never used Telstra (or MVNO) previously but just moved from AmaySIM to Kogan. I have to say data performance is like night and day. No way I'd ever go back to AmaySIM. I was getting about 1Mb/s download with them and get about 4-6MB/s with Kogan depending on time of day and location. Makes a big difference to me and is actually costing me less (I am and was on their respective unlimited plans).