Pre Paid Mobile Broadband with Long Expiry

So my mobile broadband plan is about to expire soon, I never really used much data for this sim because it was my backup phone.

Vodafone used to offer this fantastic plan where you would pay $60 for a 12 month long data only pack with around 10 gb of data. Absolutely fine for a phone I use very sparingly. I've accumulated quite a bit of data initially and have been carrying over around 30gb of data each year

Problem is, it looks like they've changed it and no longer offer that recharge. A $60 recharge now gives you 25gb with 120 days to use it, while a 365 day recharge now costs $125 for 40gb.

It's now an absolutely terrible plan, especially once you consider boost offers 80gb for 365 days WITH unlimited texts, national and international calls for $130-150 (while vodafone gives you 20 texts or something).

Does anyone know of any plan which is similar in costs like the old recharge?

Comments

  • Dodo have a $5 per month plan, with no data & unlimited national calls & unlimited national & international texts.

    The drawback is that you'll start to get extremely annoying spam calls from Dodo sales, where they'll call your phone multiple times a day, and then hang up as soon as you pick up the phone. At least the spam number is identifiable & can be blocked.

    • +3

      OP was looking for a phone plan that offers data.

    • I did consider those pay as you go plans, but the data gets expensive really quickly. The cheapest I've seen was something like 0.05c per 1mb

  • +2

    Aldi pre paid mobile plans last 1 year.

    • Thanks for the suggestion, I think that's the closest I've seen to the vodafone's old plan.

      24gb data for $95 or $99 15gb 365 days with calls

    • Same with Kogan Mobile

  • If you're willing to spend 10 minutes porting every 3 months then the Catch/Kogan sim slut plan works out to be less than $60 a year with 228GB.

    • I can be pretty stingy, but that's a lot of hassle!

      You can't even buy a supply of them since the sims expire 30 day after purchase

      • Each to their own, I keep a notebook with all my prepaid sim details so it doesn't seem like much hassle at all. I did it for 2 years but ported to Belong at the start of the year to take advantage of this deal (6 months 85GB for $15).
        Will definitely be going back to these 3 month plans after that.

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