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New Telstra Freedom Pre-Paid Plans: eg. 1.3GB Data + 3 Months Presto Subscription $15*

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New Telstra Freedom Pre-Paid Plans: eg. 1.3GB Data + 3 Months Presto Subscription $15*
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webtherapist on 14/03/2015 - 11:50 telstra.com.au (740 clicks)
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Start from the cheapest option, which is a $30 pre-paid pack cost $15 only on half-price sale, you now have 1.3GB of data on Telstra 4GX network, 3 months FREE Presto Subscription.

More info:

Data allowance
(Charged per KB)

1.3GB
(800MB + Bonus 500MB) on $30 plan/recharge

2GB
(1.5GB + Bonus 500MB) on $40 plan/recharge

2.5GB
(2GB + Bonus 500MB) on $50 plan/recharge

Pick your bonus
Anytime Bonus
Unlimited calls to standard Telstra mobiles, unlimited texts to standard Australian numbers

or

Nights Bonus
Unlimited Talk & Text every night 6pm to 6am to standard Australian numbers

Total credit
$250
($30 Recharge and $220 Freedom Credit)

$550
($40 Recharge and $510 Freedom Credit)

$1000
($50 Recharge and $950 Freedom Credit)

Presto Entertainment
3 months bonus Presto subscription (data charges apply).
New customers only
Credit roll over
Roll over your unused recharge credit when you recharge before your credit expiry date
Expiry
All to use in Australia within 28 days
Things you need to know

3 Months Bonus Presto Subscription
Data charges apply. All you need is internet, data, a credit card and a compatible device. Bonus 500MB data and Presto offer ends 11:59pm (AEST) 25 May 2015. Presto from Telstra subscription needs to be redeemed by 11:59pm (AEST) 30 June 2015. Ongoing monthly subscription fees of $14.99 per month apply unless you cancel your subscription before the end of the 3 month bonus period. Presto terms and conditions apply. See: presto.com.au/Telstra. To redeem the bonus Presto subscription offer you will be sent a code via SMS within 48 hours of activation of your SIM on Pre-Paid Freedom. Input the code at presto.com/telstra to redeem the offer. Limit 1 Presto subscription code per customer during the offer period.

Telstra Pre-Paid Freedom
Some usage is excluded, such as calls/text to satellite numbers and premium numbers, operator assisted calls, content charges, MessageBank® retrieval, diversions, and all use overseas. Your recharge credit expires after 28 days, unless you recharge again before expiry. Freedom Credit and data does not roll over.

Once you've used up your included data, you'll be charged $2 per MB in Australia from your Freedom Credit, and when that runs out, from your recharge credit.

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  • sween64 on 14/03/2015 - 11:51
    +1

    Bonus 500MB is a limited time offer.

    • webtherapist on 14/03/2015 - 11:56

      good for you to use pre-paid based on port-in-port-out basis as it would cost you just $15 per month (on 1/2 price sale pre-paid pack) for 1.3GB of data, choice of unlimited TXT and Telstra numbers OR Unlimited Talk and TXT from 6pm-6am, 4GX fast 4G network and the best coverage in Australia. For traveling purpose, worth your $15 for that month ^_^

  • kabigon on 14/03/2015 - 12:19
    +1

    On an ongoing basis:

    Telstra - $30/month 28 days, 800MB, not unlimited sms, ? minutes of calls (depending how much you text if you don't pick the Anytime bonus), 4G/4GX
    Boost - $20/month 30 days, 1GB, unlimited sms, 100 minutes of calls, 3G only

    I think most here would go with boost unless you really want 4G.

    28 days is a bit cheeky, works out to paying for an extra 'month' per year (Voda does it too alas).

    • hithere2341 on 14/03/2015 - 12:38
      +2

      Set up automated recharging - it will then extend the expiry date to the number of days in that month, eg. 30 days, 31 days for Freedom

    • Smigit on 14/03/2015 - 15:34

      Edit: based on a below comment, apparently data packs aren't applicable to these plans, so my comments quite irrelevant

      On my Telstra plan, if I recharge with $50 I get $50 recharge credit plus a few hundred in call credit. While that call credit can only be used for sms and calls, you can take that $50 recharge amount and use it to buy a data cap to complement your plans data allowance. My grandfathered plan gets me 2GB of data on a $50 recharge, and for $49 (on that same $50 recharge), I get a 3GB data pack for a total of 5GB.

      Not sure if these plans also function that way, but if you then you'd be able to get 1.7GB on a $30 recharge (800MB + $20 data cap - 700MB + $10 data cap - 200MB). Thats before the promo 500MB.

  • twocsies on 14/03/2015 - 12:32
    +1

    There are just so many different plans and rates, it took me too long to make sense of this offer. By the time I figured it out, I didn't like the offer.

    The link does not go directly to a Freedom Pre-Paid plan, probably because that plan wouldn't be suitable for many people. So I guess you need to scroll down that page, click on the four different headings of "Freedom", "Beyond Talk", "Simplicity", and "Long Life". None of the plans is a catch-all that's good for a standard 90% of customers.

    For comparison, let's look at the unlimited plan from Amaysim, which gives 5GB/month, unlimited calls and unlimited texts for $45/month. Basically none of these Telstra plans covers everything. You can either get plenty of talk and text, or you can get data at 1.3GB/month, but not both. It just is incomparable unless you need the niche market of high speed 4G and tiny 1.3GB quota. My wife went through a gigabyte in one day just listening to online radio.

    http://www.confused.com/mobile-phones/articles/what-does-a-g…

    With 1GB data you can surf the web or Facebook for 44 hours (10 hours per week). Note that this is a bit outdated because newer websites can use much more data.
    With 1GB data you can watch 68 YouTube videos. Unless you want to watch 720p video, then it's 27 x 5 minute videos.
    With 1GB data you can use Google Maps for 17 hours.

    In my opinion, 1.3GB is quite limiting and it's very easy to exceed it, even in one day. The $40 Telstra Freedom plan gives you 1.8GB, but if you're going to pay around $40-$50 per month, other companies offer much better value.

    If your budget is $30/month and you need to use slightly more than 1GB/month and already have a current 4G phone and you desire 4G speeds and you don't make many phone calls, then this Telstra deal is nice.

    • twocsies on 14/03/2015 - 22:35

      One positive point for Telstra about the comparison is that it skips the credit ($30 Recharge and $220 Freedom Credit). Amaysim doesn't give you any credit to use on non-Amaysim services. However you will need to become intimately knowledgeable with the Telstra pricing game to figure out what exactly that credit means.

  • Fiximol on 14/03/2015 - 13:15
    +2

    None of those comparison consider that with the Freedom plan, your recharge credit can be used for other things from the telstra premium services (which is why it is listed separately to the freedom credit) including their mobile foxtel (and I am assuming presto) subscription and, more importantly, on Google play transactions (up to $20 each transaction). One thing to note is that Freedom does not have data packs, which makes it much worse than its predecessor but, oh well. So for an "extra" $10 compared to boost, you get $30 of google play credit, or $15 of google play credit plus a month of presto (after your trial expires) as well as the aforemented differences

    If you need large data blocks, then definitely, freedom (and telstra prepaid, unless you have access to a grandfatehered encore sim) is not a good way to go.

    • lgacb08 on 14/03/2015 - 14:03

      compare with the old predecessor plan, it offers much more data, I'm currently on the old one and only get 400mb for $30 while this new one offer double that, and it just doesn't make sense to use the remaining credit to buy data.

      • greenlantern on 14/03/2015 - 14:27

        I'm still on the old Encore pre-paid too but I pay $50 and get a total of 3.8 gb of data on 4g speeds a month, unfortunately for me, in my area Telstra is the only option for reliable reception.

  • congo on 14/03/2015 - 13:25

    A good deal for me as I still have a lot of $30 starter pack that I got from HVN for $8.
    Hoping that the recharge credit rolls over.

    How do I recharge using the starter pack?
    Thanks.

    • webtherapist on 14/03/2015 - 13:46

      you can try your luck via Live Chat but it's better off to port-in-port-out monthly

      • congo on 14/03/2015 - 13:48

        Yeah. But doesn't it take a couples of days for the port to complete?

        • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 14:26
          +1

          If you port out to another Telco (may be able to get a free SIM, it is very quick). I ported out to Vodafone (had free $2 SIM from phone purchase) & back to Telstra in 3 hours on Christmas eve.

          Telstra-Telstra is difficult & slow, but may be able to do with a blank SIM.

          Good luck trying to use Starter Pack as recharge - Telstra won't want to do that. They sell Starter Packs for new services & recharges for existing services.

          Just convincing chat to manually transfer $10 via CreditMe2u took 45 minutes.

        • congo on 14/03/2015 - 15:32

          @brucefromaustralia: it's silly how Telstra to Telstra takes longer.
          It's basically a sim swap.

        • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 16:26
          +1

          @congngo:
          SIM swaps are normal, don't involve any more than associating a new SIM with 1 existing account. There is no other change to the account or number. Easy & quick.

          Porting numbers (within a carrier) involves 2 Telstra accounts, 2 Telstra numbers, 2 difficult within one Telco.

          Porting is to attract customers from other telcos. Telstra has to port if you are with another network & request it, but certainly don't have to do it within their network. I don't remember anyone reporting having done it.

          They will say just buy a recharge - it's easy, quick, they know how to do it, and is more profitable.

          I am currently with BOOST (uses Telstra network, bought $40 Starter Pack for $10) - porting directly to Telstra is a real pain but certainly can be done - slowly with blank SIM, so I won't even try. Telstra staff recommend porting out then back to Telstra.

          Telstra sells Starter Packs purely to attract new business. You are trying to undo their marketing.

          Transferring credit involves stripping the credit from one account to existing account - which is governed by Telstra's terms of service (which they won't easily do beyond the stated limit of $10/day on prepaid accounts).

        • congo on 14/03/2015 - 16:39

          @brucefromaustralia: thanks Bruce for the tip.

      • congo on 14/03/2015 - 13:50

        Wait. Can't I use credit2me to transfer credit from new starter sim to my number?

        • lgacb08 on 14/03/2015 - 14:07
          +1

          you can only do $10 a day, to make a $30 transfer you have to come up with some sound reasoning for live chat to do it for you.

        • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 14:31
          +1

          @lgacb08:
          Don't forget the 25c fee per transfer, so only can transfer $29 (unless chat are very cooperative & do a manual transfer - a rarity).

        • congo on 14/03/2015 - 15:31

          @lgacb08:
          Thanks. I thought creditMe2u was an Internet app. Don't need to call live chat for it ?

          Might go with Optus $1 day offer of the Telstra prepaid is too complicated.

        • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 16:51
          +2

          @congngo:
          Calling or chatting is used to get around $10/day limit. I've sometimes had difficulty using CreditMe2u on some accounts (especially data).

          $1-10 transfers can be done by dialling #100# or using Telstra on Facebook.

          All this has been covered in the Wiki I compiled from questions raised in Telstra deals on OzBargain.

        • congo on 14/03/2015 - 17:25

          @brucefromaustralia: thanks Bruce. The wiki is very informative :)

    • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 14:40

      Explained in Tips for cheap calls section of Telstra Starter Pack Wiki.

      Best to transfer existing credit to next Starter Pack after activation (before expiry of first SIM), preserving credit less 25c CreditMe2u fees.

      As outlined in that link, I use a Starter Pack set up on Longlife-Simplicity plans to give cheap calls for 6 months. That is my main number, ported out & back to next Starter Pack every 6 months.
      Excess credit gets transferred to that account with CreditMe2u. So after activation using this deal, $29 of the $30 included credit will be transferred to that account. That still leaves the cap for calls & SMS, data, free calls to use for 28 days.

      Even better deal when using the Woolies $1 Starter Pack deal from before Christmas ;-)

  • INFIDEL on 14/03/2015 - 13:45
    +2

    Deal added in new "Current Offers" section of telstra pre-paid starter pack guide

  • horsome on 14/03/2015 - 17:23
    +1

    I'm sticking with old school Encore, 30 days vs 28 days recharge period. Have WiFi at home and work where I browse on the phone the most so lack of data won't annoy me as much as more frequent recharges.

  • damoo on 14/03/2015 - 18:43
    +1

    Where do I buy a 50% off starter pack?

    • goevencheaper on 14/03/2015 - 23:34
      +1

      officeworks are selling them at $15, got 2 this afternoon. better call before go, some stores do not have stocks. or order onlone.

  • daver on 14/03/2015 - 19:55

    Could have gone well with Unmetered/vodafone plan but am signing with Netflix
    (was Brazil cheapest,6.99?+multi-regional DNS redirection) for a superior plan.

  • BargainBenno on 14/03/2015 - 22:26

    If watching Presto is metered I would think the data usage would be used up quite quickly? or can you use Wifi to stream the show ?

  • daver on 15/03/2015 - 04:03

    Believe Presto here will be offered as a taste-test teaser, much like a starter-pack. You'd watch it more often then you'll want formal bigpond (broadband) plan for a legitimate experience. Wifi won't be an issue, Mobile OTOH would run quite dear ∴it may be uneconomic use it in the outside over an unequaled metered network.

  • neonlight on 07/04/2015 - 09:12
    -1

    New customers only, not for existing Telstra MyAccounts…

    • INFIDEL on 10/04/2015 - 18:41

      I've got an existing Telstra MyAccount. I activated a cheap $30 Starter Pack on Freedom last week & got this deal - emailed code for Presto & 1.3GB.

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