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[Hack] Belong NBN Unlimited 100/40 $57/Month for 13 Months (12 Month Contract)

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[Hack] Belong NBN Unlimited 100/40 $57/Month for 13 Months (12 Month Contract)
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[Deactivated] on 26/04/2017 - 15:04 belong.com.au (1945 clicks)
Last edited 08/05/2017 - 14:58 by 2 other users

Belong NBN owned by Telstra.

Unlimited 100/40 $57/month over 13 months (12 Month Contract) plan.

Follow this procedure:

  1. Belongs billing cycle is from the 2nd of every month. If your connection goes active after the 2nd, Belong does not pro rata the remaining days of that month instead they just give you the rest of the month for free. So signup on the first day of the month or a few days at the end of the previous month to time the activation to begin right on the 2nd to give you the whole of your activation month for free.

  2. When signing up, ask for the Unlimited 12/1 $65 month plan. This will give you one month free(not including the free activation month). You will also get a free speed boost up to 100/40 for the first three months (four months including the activation month).

  3. After the 2nd day of the month after the free activation month (so within the first free month of the 12 month contract) call Belong or login to your Belong account online and downgrade to the 100GB $50/month plan. You will get to keep your existing Unlimited data allowance until the next billing period begins (2nd of the next month).

  4. After the 2nd of the next month and your credit card has been billed $50 for the 100GB plan, login to your Belong account again and upgrade your plan to the Unlimited $65 (It's 12/1 but you are still getting your free 100/40 speed boost). The changes will take effect immediately or within the next 48 hours but you won't get any charge any extra for the data upgrade. The new charges always apply from the 2nd of the next month.

  5. After the 2nd of the next month when your credit card has been billed $65 downgrade your plan to the 100GB $50/Month plan. This change will not affect your unlimited data allowance until the 2nd of the next month.

  6. After the 2nd of the next month when your credit card has been billed $50 upgrade to the unlimited 100/40 $95 month plan. The changes will take effect within the next 48 hours but you won't get charged any extra for the data upgrade until the next billing cycle.

  7. After the 2nd of the next month when your credit card has been billed $95 downgrade to the 100GB 12/1 $50 month plan. The changes won't take effect until the 2nd of the following month.

  8. After the 2nd of the next month when your credit card has been billed $50 upgrade to the unlimited 100/40 $95 month plan. The changes will take effect within the next 48 hours but you won't get charged any extra for the until the next billing cycle.

Rinse and repeat until you reach the end of your 12 month contract. So it should look like this, counting from month 0 (activation month):

0 Free
1 Free (downgrade your plan)
2 $50 (upgrade your plan)
3 $65 (downgrade your plan)
4 $50 (upgrade your plan)
5 $95 (downgrade your plan)
6 $50 (upgrade your plan)
7 $95 (downgrade your plan)
8 $50 (upgrade your plan)
9 $95 (downgrade your plan)
10 $50 (upgrade your plan)
11 $95 (downgrade your plan)
12 $50

13 months total = $745.
So it works out as Unlimited 100/40 $57/month give or take a few days.

In addition, there's also a $20 credit for new signups using my referral code: IAFCXNTG1

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  • Povotron on 26/04/2017 - 23:35
    +1

    This probably won't work. I recently lowered my plan using their online service, it's worked as suggested but I'm still billed for the full amount due to billing issues. There are a few people having similar problems but there's no way to report it unless you sit in on hold for an hour.
    Rather than the first month free, i actually paid for a month i didn't even get a service as it took so long to setup. I even got charged by Telstra for all the minutes i went over on my plan sitting on hold with belong. So much for my planned bargain.

  • lostn on 27/04/2017 - 00:03
    +2

    That's a number of hacks that they can easily close at any time. And then you'll be stuck on contract unable to get out.

  • Stevetheadventurer on 27/04/2017 - 00:11

    hack belong commit …

    this deal should help keep your blues away ..

  • Appleboat on 27/04/2017 - 00:17
    +1

    Can't say enough bad things about Belong. We hav dropped from decent to KB per second rates at peak times. Feels like dial up and banking apps etc reject us. TPG scammed us in a similar manner and I broke contract to get out at considerable expense. Aussie telcos are scum. I think we will soon suffer as a backwards economy due to these issues if not already.

  • Kustard King on 27/04/2017 - 00:39
    +1

    Wow.. That's a lot of effort… You should include "Quit work" as well.

    • db2k on 27/04/2017 - 01:34

      After quitting work, you should also:

      1. Buy vegetable seeds and plant in garden
      2. Buy chickens and cows to keep in garden
        2a. Buy a big knife
      3. Buy cotton seeds to grow cotton
      4. Buy a giant hamster wheel to generate electricity
      5. Buy hamsters to run hamster wheel (optional)

      Then you can ..
      7. Grow and eat your own vegetables
      8. Grow and eat your own meat produce (making use of 2a)
      9. Make your own clothes from your own cotton
      10. Generate your own electricity (when the hamsters die, you should eat them and then generate electricity yourself)

      To any OB'ers out there (Broden?) who will do what the OP suggested, please show screen shots in 14 months time, of all the changes. I will then worship you for eternity, as we are not worthy. We are not worthy.

  • tomwood on 27/04/2017 - 00:58
    +1

    What's the best millisecond to make the plan changes on?

  • gosund on 27/04/2017 - 03:07

    Well… My place should have been nbn ready a year ago, but somehow its status shows as 'additional work still required'. Rang the support line several times and only got the same BS respond 'wait for it'.

  • [Deactivated] on 27/04/2017 - 06:31

    Myrepublic and Belong are both just as bad

    Skymesh is the only ISP worthy of a mention on the NBN due to the fact they don't talk nonsense and peak hour they have actual CVC capacity

    Myrepublic was nothing but shit when i had them and excuse after excuse

    Unlimited providers are all the same, soon enough they'll all be laggy, slow as hell during peak hour and cutting corners

    At least with the extra cash i spend on skymesh I know Paul and his team go the extra mile for their customers and try and help out

    Not to mention their free trial as well, no one else offers this

    • PurchaseAnxiety on 27/04/2017 - 20:03

      Sounds like you actually spoke to someone from myrepublic, so you had more luck than me. My support emails went unanswered, and my phone calls usually ended in "I can't do that, I'll take your details and someone will call you back". Had to go to the TIO in the end.

  • [Deactivated] on 27/04/2017 - 06:46

    Unlimited + Fast is never a good idea on the NBN
    For me skymesh reign supreme
    I don't need to download the "internet" each month and realistically unlimited companies are all crap
    Leechers want to pay 60 a month and experience poor speed, be my guest

    I'll stick with the company that has a no bullshit approach to the NBN and offers speeds worthy of peak hour usage

  • Hope140 on 27/04/2017 - 08:06
    +3

    don't recommend using Belong at all. Their customer service is terrible. It took us 6 weeks of making complaint and multiple long-waiting phone calls to get out of contract. Believe me, this has just happened to us yesterday. Never want to deal with them again.

  • josepet on 27/04/2017 - 09:36

    Have had Belong for 10 month. First 9 month was perfect. Good speed and good service. Last monther webs started to time out, can't play a fu##ing Instagram video without lagging. Wtf is happening?

  • MrMarket on 27/04/2017 - 09:41

    Moral of the story is dont go for smaller ISP, they dont have the backhaul capacity
    go for iinet, telstra etc …
    happy iinet customers for 12 years and not a single issue

  • nickj on 27/04/2017 - 11:47

    A bit off topic, but if you ever get an option to get onto TPG's/Worldcom FTTB network, I'd totally recommend that. It's similar to what you're getting with this hack (100/40 unlimited), with a similar price ($59.99/month vs $57), but without the 12-month contract, and without any faffing about changing plans, and possibly without such a congestion problem as Belong (at least I haven't noticed one).

    Background: I had ADSL 2+ with Internode & TPG & other telcos, then NBN with internode, then TPG's FTTB product. IMHO, each is better than the last. NBN was better than ADSL 2+ because it was soooo much faster, but the price was a little higher (ADSL + telstra line rental with caller id & silent number was ~$80/month, versus Internode NBN service with VoIP was $95/month for 100/40 or $85/month for 50/20). TPG's FTTB for us is a little faster again (speedtest average of 82/36 on Internode NBN, versus 93/33 on TPG FTTB, although we moved about 300 metres between those 2 services), but the cost is significantly lower, plus I never have to worry about how much I've downloaded or going over quota (Internode NBN was $94.95/month for 500 GB at 100/40, and TPG FTTB is $59.95/month for unlimited at 100/40).

    So TPG FTTB is what I think the NBN should have been - it has the speed upsides of the NBN, without the excessively expensive cost (<rant>seriously, if I live in high density the Internet should be inexpensive like it is in Korea or Japan because it is MUCH cheaper to provide to high density populations; if you choose to live in a remote area, it's ridiculous to ask me to subsidize your costs because of a choice that you have made… or are you going to subsidize my crazy expensive housing costs because where I choose to live costs much more, or is that ridiculous too? This applies to a number of things, like not spending anywhere near enough building new public transport in Sydney, but instead the government spend is disproportionately favored towards areas outside Sydney, yet that is not where most of the people are </rant>). Anyway, back on topic.

    The real downside of TPG's FTTB is that the serviced areas are very small (they really only service some high density suburbs in which they have pre-existing infrastructure), so it is not a widely available product.

  • ericshurn on 27/04/2017 - 12:16

    Have been with MyRepublic for the past month, which I know isn't long, but for their cost their speed has been consistent, their schedule has been on time (they said 2 weeks and a technician was at my house in two weeks, with the net being able to use the minute the technician was finished)
    great experience so far

  • [Deactivated] on 27/04/2017 - 14:59

    It is not a hack because Belong allows you to upgrade or downgrade your plan once per month. And it is a very simple thing to do - just a few clicks in your account settings. No hacking or exploiting of any systems takes place, it's simply about optimising the monthly downgrade\upgrade option to your best advantage. So I would politely request the '[Hack]' be removed from the title, thanks.

  • sydsm on 27/04/2017 - 15:02
    +1

    Has anyone signed up to NBN HFC? What the best plan as Im thinking of just going to Telstra on this one.

  • Eeples on 27/04/2017 - 15:58

    Ive had nothing but slow speeds with belong nbn. It has made me sad.

  • blaze on 27/04/2017 - 16:34

    who got time fo dat

  • PurchaseAnxiety on 27/04/2017 - 20:14

    Also can't recommend Belong. Were with them for a year. Speeds were inconsistent, support was slow, and half way through our contract they increased the price of our plan. When I decided to downgrade our speed because I didn't want to pay them more, they did downgrade our speed, but kept billing us at the increased rate for the next 4 months. Had to chase them up every month to get my money back.

    I can also highly recommend skymesh. Reasonable prices, versitile plan options, no contract or joining fee (iirc), decent tools to help resolve problems (e.g. they have their own speed test tool on their website that automatically logs your speed test results against your account), callback support service and super attentive support staff. Special shoutout to their callback service that rang me less than 20 seconds after I lodged a request.

  • Topdog on 27/04/2017 - 22:26

    Wow. WhAt a hassle I'd rather just pay

  • chowmanly on 27/04/2017 - 23:53

    Why such a hassle for a lower quality provider. I don't see any advantage of having Telstra for NBN. I'm sure TPG, dodo and others will have a good enough plan for a similar amount.
    For ADSL TLS is still the go to choice.

  • Make it so on 28/04/2017 - 00:38

    OP, this method is based on exploiting the fact that changes in the system are not being reflected immediately across the board, without any guarantee that this flaw will remain for the full contract. As such, this is a hack. Please reinstate the title changes made be the moderator.

  • syousef on 03/05/2017 - 22:31

    So choose a bargain provider with a bad reputation and try to exploit loopholes in their billing rules to try to screw them? What could possibly go wrong? Don't forget to buy a back up carrier pigeon.

  • Ronnnie on 24/05/2017 - 10:45

    Too much effort required for me. However this is ozbargain and I'm sure some will find this valuable information and willing to go to the effort to save a few bucks. I'm quite happy with my republic, same speed connection without the effort for $59 a month. ;)

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