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Optus Unlimited Mobile Data from $60/Mth

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RyanMK on 05/03/2018 - 14:30 offer.optus.com.au (8370 clicks)
Last edited 14/03/2018 - 18:16 by 1 other user

Received an email today for an invitation to the following:

We're proud to announce we're now offering unlimited mobile data on our Unleashed SIM Only plans and we want you to be the first to try it.
You bring the phone and we'll provide the SIM when you switch to our 12 month, Unleashed SIM Only plan.
Offer ends 13 April 2018, unless withdrawn earlier.

First SIM - $60/mth
Add 2nd SIM - $50/mth
Add 3rd SIM - $40/mth

Plan's CIS thanks to subee.

It seems like you need a unique code to be sent to your email to apply for the plan.

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  • DOTAKE on 05/03/2018 - 17:44

    deceptive for the term unlimited

  • shamid202 on 05/03/2018 - 18:00
    -1

    can we the full speed if we connect to VPN?

  • Joey Jo Jo on 05/03/2018 - 18:12
    +1

    "During congestion, heavy data users may be deprioritised and experience slower speeds."

  • edisonAU on 05/03/2018 - 18:14
    +1

    Excellent. With this new product I can spend all day sending emails.

    • FeRGan on 06/03/2018 - 03:49

      haha.

  • Hirolol on 05/03/2018 - 18:16
    +3

    Probably get downvotes for my opinion but anyway, Not sure why people are having a crying/so surprised that there is a speed cap.
    Would you rather every second user just smashing this with movies/ torrents and slowing down the network?
    Pretty sure they do exactly this same thing in japan too.
    It’s still unlimited and nothing wrong with it being unlimited with a speed cap.
    It clearly shows there are terms and conditions and you would be daft To think there weren’t going to be.

    • Strahany on 05/03/2018 - 23:16
      +1

      There’s nothing wrong with capping data speeds to prevent the network from being absolutely destroyed, however 1.5mbps is so slow that it’s practically unusable. The only type of consumer that wouldn’t notice this speed cap would be general browsing with limited media/ads on each page, emails (sans moderate to large attachments), and maybe some light social media use. For this kind of consumer, they’d be unlikely to use more than 5-10GB per month (at a stretch) which is currently as low as $24/m (5GB from Virgin, as far as brick and mortar telcos go). Not to mention that they claim to throttle speeds even further, without stipulating how low it could go; we could see the return of EDGE data speeds.

      So, in reality, the only use case scenario where such data speeds are practical, would also only require a few GB and not an unlimited quota. It’s inherently redundant at $60/m. Better off spending $60/m on a capped SIM only or mobile broadband plan, since the amount of data on offer will be hard to max out, whilst still getting the benefit of proper network speeds.

      • Hirolol on 06/03/2018 - 06:43

        I have the entertainment pack on my Samsung tablet which offers unmetered Netflix streaming and I have never had buffering issues.
        So 1.5mbit speed is enough for that or heavy instagram users.
        Probably not enough for YouTube but it’s still better than people are making it out to be.

  • katz on 05/03/2018 - 18:18

    How do they know it’s being tethered?

  • Wallyt99 on 05/03/2018 - 18:19
    +1

    They can't even get their billing right.

  • moksha on 05/03/2018 - 18:46

    I just sold an old $2 a day unlimited data 3G optus sim for $650… I dont think the other one I have will go for anything anymore!

  • jofa on 05/03/2018 - 18:54

    Unlimited data is unreal in theory, but it's not realistic in practice.

    In the US, the unlimited plans give you around 22GB of 4G data, and then 'unlimited' potentially capped speeds (depending on the network's usage).

    I've been watching Optus's cable network slowly become oversubscribed over the last few years, and I'm hoping the same isn't coming for what's considered a very good 4G network internationally.

    The only realistic way to maintain a good network is to slowly drop the average price per gigabyte as the network's bandwidth increases in size.

    This plan won't change that, there's too much of a cap, but this is why I hope we don't see true "unlimited" for a long time yet.

  • GeekitTillitMHz on 05/03/2018 - 19:23

    Had a conversation with online chat about getting on this offer, but I didn't qualify. According to the chat user, the criteria is the following:

    The criteria is the customer should not have another mobile or sim only plan service with optus stated as a new customer with optus

    A little disappointing as a existing user with multiple services.

  • inthemoney114 on 05/03/2018 - 19:37

    Downvoted as restricted data. Not a deal

    • theraque on 05/03/2018 - 19:54
      -1

      Damn negger.

  • daver on 05/03/2018 - 19:56

    Backwards step from earlier 10megs/vividwireless experiment.
    5/5 would have been like 10% against base denominator nbn.

    Blue ribbon for shaping equipment though.

  • MountFranklin on 05/03/2018 - 20:54

    It's like sending a vegetarian to a meat lovers buffet

  • simonchen on 05/03/2018 - 21:11

    Do anyone get this deal? I just called them, they said it only offered to a SELECTED customer. and can only offer me $40 with 5GB… How can I become a SELECTED customer? They did not say how.

    I was thinking to cut my TPG home internet because it is very slow. But too bad, it is not for me.

    • idonotknowwhy on 05/03/2018 - 22:32

      I was thinking the same thing. Not because it's slow, but because line rental and unlimited adsl cost more than this. I can live with 1.5mbit, the nostalgia would be fun

  • NueLogic on 05/03/2018 - 21:51

    I smell the ACCC digging into this one.

  • sweetnipples on 05/03/2018 - 22:04

    Had Unlimited Optus Data for 5 years + now, what is the big deal?

  • GaelicAU on 05/03/2018 - 22:14

    Could this SIM be put into a Pocket Wifi device this mitigating any tethering issues?

    • idonotknowwhy on 05/03/2018 - 22:33

      Depends how they know. This deal should be marked as targeted, at 1 person lol

    • moksha on 05/03/2018 - 22:46

      I assume it is the same as the $2 a day unlimited sims - they can tell if it is in a wifi device or a tethering iphone, but not a tethering android phone

  • DEvok on 05/03/2018 - 22:52

    Any tricks to get the codes as I really want this, I’m with Optus and nothing in my email showing?

  • kdmeir on 06/03/2018 - 00:46
    +1

    Am I reading this right or am I missing something ?

    1.5 Mbps = 187.5 kB/s download speed

    That’s slower than adsl.

  • kdmeir on 06/03/2018 - 00:53

    Maybe they accidentally put the decimal point in and it should be 15

    I’ll pass on this.

  • daver on 06/03/2018 - 02:07

    *2003 WCDMA 3G starts up

    What a great plan this would have made in April 2003.

  • idonotknowwhy on 06/03/2018 - 05:24
    +3

    I've had a couple of PM's about VPN recommendations, so I figured I'd post here

    I'm using Shadowsocks and EC2 to roll my own VPN.
    It takes a bit (but not that much) of work to set up. You can get a free EC2 server for 12 months if you use the smallest instance.

    I also use a commercial VPN (torguard) for some things.

    This is the most comprehensive commercial VPN service comparison guide:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N… (LibreOffice)
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N… (Microsoft Excel)

    Advantages of the shared VPNs:
    -> With shared IP addresses, when you access a website, it could be one of hundreds of the VPN company's customers who did it.
    -> Easy to setup
    -> Lots of endpoint countries available

    Roll your own:
    -> No extra captchas
    (When other VPN customers do dodgy things using the VPN, it's IP addresses get blocked behind captchas codes, which YOU have to click when you want to access websites)
    -> No selling your data
    (You can run opensource software on the server)

    I would suggest that shadowsocks on your own server, would be better at tricking Optus. They're not going to know about your particular server, and shadowsocks has methods to obfuscate the VPN packets and make it look like regular web traffic. This gets around the censorship in China too.

    You'll also want to set Dun=0 on Android, to stop your phone from dobbing you in to Optus when you tether:
    https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hide-data-usage-get-truly-u…

    I'm personally not going to take this Optus deal, because their billing department make a lot of mistakes and are quite a nightmare to deal with.

  • 2real4u on 06/03/2018 - 09:15

    If someone can report back later after setting dun=0 and taking up this deal, it would be much appreciated! Thanks

  • Kista on 06/03/2018 - 09:48

    Deceptive advertising, unlimited with CAPPED SPEED

  • Amaris on 06/03/2018 - 10:33
    +1

    Vodafone has 62GB for $65 a month on a 12 month contract (or 52GB for $50). No BS speed limits. Much better in my opinion.

  • SlickMick on 06/03/2018 - 11:43
    +1

    I'd much rather a fixed quota, then throttling with the option to purchase an extra block

  • pformag on 06/03/2018 - 12:54

    Any chance it is 1.5MB/s not 1.5Mb/s

  • merajaan on 06/03/2018 - 16:46

    I just spoke with Optus and they advised that as of today, the offer is no longer available. So it looks as though this deeply flawed deal is over even for those limited customers that were targeted. I assume that customers that signed up before today will still be honoured.

  • Strahany on 06/03/2018 - 21:59

    This didn't last long; I wonder if they were browsing through OzB and saw how much crap was getting heaped onto it?

  • bocca on 07/03/2018 - 11:20
    +2

    Dang!

    https://imgur.com/a/ofFdc

  • NeoBeum on 08/03/2018 - 00:22
    -1

    people must have missed my post about optus tether hotspot on android on page 1…. Or just no one gave a fk

    This is a synchronous speedtest, from two Sony Z5 Compact, one hotspot host, the other tethered (last link)
    It will use the LTE network, so max performance peaks are approx

    Full LTE Signal Strength (Dedicated Modem Hotspot)

    DOWNSTREAM 112MBps
    UPSTREAM 20MBps

    Tether Mobile Devices (Test Run at the Same time on both devices)
    Host - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3711568657
    Client - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3711568664

    Single Device Low Signal Strength
    http://www.speedtest.net/result/a/3675071243
    Good Signal
    http://www.speedtest.net/result/a/3441444730

    Telstra 4G Hotspot Modem 5GHz AC to Sony Xperia Z5 Compact
    http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3708380975

    I feel for those who buy multiple sims if they don't require devices to be separated… don't get sucker punched

  • hoopera on 14/03/2018 - 16:42
    +1

    The URL is back up going to a Generic offer form at : https://offer.optus.com.au/unleashed/

    the CIS is back up also at http://www.optus.com.au/opfiles/Shop/All/cis/Cis%20Documents…

  • bocca on 09/04/2018 - 12:00
    +1

    This deal is live again

    • hoopera on 09/04/2018 - 12:16

      Yep it's back up "We're offering SIM Only plans with unlimited mobile data to eligible Optus customers only."

      Anyone get a email as a "eligible customer". ?

      Was anyone actually able to signup to the previous offer ?

  • ashdays on 09/04/2018 - 13:45
    +1

    What a great deal this is. Shame, I'm not an existing it's customer. Can't wait until this deal is made available for new customers too !

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