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Free Data Sunday 14/2 for Telstra Mobile Customers

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ChippyD on 09/02/2016 - 19:17 exchange.telstra.com.au (2685 clicks)
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Free data for all Telstra mobile customers this Sunday

While the outage was short in duration we fully realise the impact it had on our customers, which is why we are offering all of our customers a day of free mobile data this Sunday. Customers don’t need to do anything to receive the free data, it will happen automatically for all of our mobile customers.

Free data is available from midnight to midnight (in your local Australian time zone) Sunday 14 February 2016. It’s available to both our personal and business customers on post-paid and pre-paid phone, tablet and mobile broadband plans.

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EDIT 11/2 7.20PM: Confirmed by a Telstra rep: You do not need to have any credit on your prepaid sim ($0 balance) to access unlimited data on Sunday

Mod: Also includes the following resellers: Telechoice, Boost Mobile, Woolworths Mobile, ALDImobile (thus far) see deal/information here.

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  • realfancyman on 14/02/2016 - 16:18
    +1

    4G has stayed strong all day for me, except for about 45 minutes where it went from 1.3MB/s to 300kB/s, back to normal now.

  • Savas on 14/02/2016 - 17:03
    +1

    Does anyone get a good Speedtest result, but then go to download something and it is really slow?

    • chipstss on 14/02/2016 - 18:54
      +1

      Yea, smells like throttling.

  • CryssieJade on 14/02/2016 - 17:44
    +3

    Can't talk…downloading…

  • regenade on 14/02/2016 - 19:13
    -4

    All you retards complaining slow speeds put the sim on a device with 4GX Cat 6 Device with 700 Mhz B28 LTE Band support and see the speeds. 1800 Mhz LTE B3 is which have become congested. I am getting well above 150 Mbps all day, 440GB uploads done, dont have much to download anyway so just concentrating on getting all my stuff on cloud !

    • [Deactivated] on 14/02/2016 - 19:18
      +2

      all depends on your local tower and signal strength

      i live in a 4gx area however tower signal strength causes me to lose a bit of speed

      managed 60-80mbit from narangba on 2-3 bars with antenna pointed towards tower

      not bad considering im on 5km of shit copper and barely hit 3mbit over dsl2

  • [Deactivated] on 14/02/2016 - 19:16
    +1

    pulled down about 500gb over the last 8 hours from narangba

    uploaded 100gb

    happy enough

  • nekro on 14/02/2016 - 19:43
    +1

    Just got a call from the "telstra technical dept" he said "you ozzie bastards have broken the internet"

  • hambuger on 14/02/2016 - 19:43

    Tethering kinda sucks. Can't load select HTTPS sites and USB stops working after ~15 minutes but wifi is alright. Updating everything on steam/origin after trying PSN which went even slower than my DSL. Maxing out around 1.7mb/sec on 1 bar signal

  • PAEz on 14/02/2016 - 19:44

    All you people suck! But no where near Telstra!
    hehe only kidding, only telstra suck, Im just jealous.
    Typically during the day Im lucky to get about 300k a second and upto 800-1000 at night.
    Today Im averaging around 50k!!!!
    Last night I was getting around 600 when I went to bed, but woke up to only 10gig downloaded and those awful speeds.
    Compare this with vodafones free weekend where I got a consistent 1.6meg a second.
    Telstra may have the biggest network, but Ive consistently gotten bad speeds….hate telstra.

  • rye on 14/02/2016 - 19:48
    +1

    Great offer and seen no effect on speeds on 4G from the tower down the road.

    However, my iPad says there's a software update available. When I go to download the update, it says the update is currently unavailable and to try again later. Either Apple's servers are on heavy load or someone is restricting access?

    Anyone else encountered this?

    Edit: just did a speed test - 2.33Mbps down and 4.3Mbps up. Typically, I get 27-43Mbps down and 6-13Mbps down on a weekday.

  • ChippyD on 14/02/2016 - 20:52
    +2

    Speed test done in Hurstville, NSW
    http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1740125792

  • neonlight on 14/02/2016 - 21:22

    Haven't really used too much of it. It's valentines day. Better spend the time with your love one. Only get to upload photos and videos off mobile to cloud as cable is only 2 Mbps, vs 24 Mbps. Certainly felt the difference to be NBN like… Wish this is permanent on broadband fixed lines… As in speed not the deal heh

    • CryssieJade on 14/02/2016 - 23:18
      +3

      Happy Valentines Day Internet.
      I love you <3

  • BargainKen on 14/02/2016 - 21:42
    +1

    its running like an absolute nugget for me

  • cloudie9 on 14/02/2016 - 23:50

    Updated my Gran Turismo 6, from base to the latest, each run is approximate 10gb, but the first run got screwed so had to redownload it again! FML!

  • regenade on 14/02/2016 - 23:53

    Is the free data till 3AM AEDT Melbourne/Sydney time. I am on a $2 sim anyway so will download till it lasts lol

  • DEvok on 15/02/2016 - 00:38

    Maybe Telstra extended the date, or its permanent

    • [Deactivated] on 15/02/2016 - 00:39
      +1

      ends 3am Monday AEST
      so no not permanent

  • nephilim on 15/02/2016 - 01:26
    +1

    I wanna share how much data I used, but fear news limited will quote me lol. Pretty happy, turned of tethering now in case it ends early.
    Pretty happy, was 6MB/sec last night but struggled at 1-3 today. Some things like Xbox live seemed to be throttled.

    • iratepirate on 15/02/2016 - 09:42
      +2

      I'm not shy - I got 120GB (download only) out of them using a MF 823 USB 4G Modem. Installed some steam games on a new box and downloaded a few ISO's. All using a sim that had no credit and expired months ago.

  • BargainKen on 15/02/2016 - 03:54
    +1

    Mine just died. Twas fun while it lasted

  • nickj on 15/02/2016 - 12:26
    +1

    Got through 74,953 MB on an LG G4 phone on Sunday, using an old Telstra prepaid MBB SIM that was about to expire with zero credit left. I had other Telstra SIMs, but for me this was the best one to use, since I could go to bed and leave it running on Sunday night, safe in the knowledge there was no way to bill me for any usage on Monday. I like the idea of using an unactivated $2 SIM though ;-)

    Definite congestion observed - normally I would get 4.5 MB/s downloads, but was typically seeing around 1.1 MB/s. This is inner-city Sydney, so lots of people would have been going for it.

    Biggest problem that I had was keeping the phone's battery charged. I was USB tethering (seem to get the best speeds this way), but even plugged into the computer the phone drained power faster than it charged (was draining at around 15 to 20% per hour). And at around 10% power the USB tethering would automatically disconnect, then I would manually move it to a proper wall charger, then resume downloading when it got to around 90% charge. Bit of a pain though. So I have a question:
    * Is there some way to make the phone charge faster whilst keeping USB tethering? I tried both USB 3 and USB 2 ports, both drained faster than charging (although I think the drain may have been faster on USB 2).
    * Is there a cheap 4G modem that would have been better? I guess ideally it would have an external antenna, since I know that the balcony normally gets around 11 MB/s, faster than the 4.5 MB/s indoors, and ideally it would be cat 6 or better since that's what the LG G4 is, and ideally it would be ozbargainer-compatible (i.e. cheap + good).

  • futaris on 15/02/2016 - 16:57
    +1

    http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2016/02/15/big-day-of-free-da…

    1841TB of data used…

    • Clear on 15/02/2016 - 16:59
      +1

      So 1.8PB. Gees that looks weird.

  • scotty on 18/03/2016 - 07:35

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-18/telstra-ceo-apologises…

    More free data coming up on 3 April

    Mr Penn (Telstra CEO) said a free data day would be offered on Sunday April 3 to compensate for the disruptions.

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