I have a phone contract with Virgin Mobile who are closing later this year. I logged in to my account to have a look at the offers Optus are offering and noticed Virgin are waiving the rest of the contract fees if you port to Optus.
Switched from my current $60 a month iPhone plan to a $30 a month sim only plan without having to pay any cancellation fees.
Yep only available to customers with six months remaining. I was told at 8 months prior to contract end that I would get an email at 6 months but that never happened. I'm glad I waited an extra month because optus had some good specials on this month. Didn't know I could change to a sim only plan and save.
7 months left on mine, d'oeth!
I'm sure you can negotiate, if you said you'd head to Telstra otherwise. I mean Virgin are owned by Optus, they'd want to get as many as possible over there.
You can just pay 1 month bill, thats what I did.
how? Optus plans aren't too good for me atm
If they had a 30/35 dollar plan with 20gb that would have been ideal
@shole: Yeah it's annoying that it goes from a 3GB plan to 40GB on the next tier up. I only need about 10GB or so.
this has been the case for the past year.
Yep, ported over a few months ago. Decent deal.
I did similar at 6months to go a year ago, not a new offer.
They've been doing this since at least last October. I had a plan with them due to expire in April and they waived the remaining phone repayment fees on my plan when I connected to Optus.
Great deal, thank you. I switched over, with $600 left on my current plan that I was going to pay anyway that brings the overall cost down.
I ported to Optus last year, no cancellation fees.
I'm with Virgin, with ~3 months to go and have seen the Optus offers. Given I use 3GB/month data, I'm planning on going over to Boost on their $150/yr plan, with 80GB data. I assume too I'd get better coverage given Boost use the Telstra network
That's what I did. Grabbed a first SIM card on half price special and used $100/6mths 60Gb recharge.
What happens if you have a mobile phone in the contract? I assume you will have to pay out the remaining installments?
I have an iPhone on the plan for $60 and they let me change to a sim only plan for $30, seems like Virgin are writing off the remaining fees.
Ah that's great! Thanks!
Been the same since last year. They keep sending me "deals" to change over with no penalties. But they're not as good as what I'm on.
I switched over when Optus had the BYO $40 80gb and 4gb roaming deal - the best deal so far. Virgin waived the cancellation (5 months plus remaining on $100 Ip8+ plan) and pro rata my old plan.
how about mbb? is it the same sort of migration?
is it possible to switch to a month to month?
I have 9 months left, virgin website said $459 will be waived. Head over to Optus website and it says I have to pay remaining $459 to Virgin?
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only with less than 6 months remaining