Telstra (Wholesale) network
$45 Family Plan per 30 Days
You and 1 other User on a shared plan
Keep your own number(s)
Unlimited Australian standard calls and SMS
Unlimited standard calls and SMS to 15 countries
40GB data to share plus data rollover
Set User data limits
@tomsco: Thanks lots.
And I won't hear from Optus again as I will be paying them before the expiry date?
@ChrisLevo: Yes. As long as the port is completed prior to the next billing period, and you've paid it, there should be no reason for Optus to bill you.
The way phone porting works also means that you shouldn't really get any calls from a retention department either - you submit the port request and the system just processes it.
@tomsco: Thanks to all for your patience with me.
I grabbed the SIM and paid the $45.
I have left the Optus SIMs in the mobiles.
I ow need an Activation Code but went to activate and it needs an Activation Code - do I need to wait for this to be emailed to me?
At the start of the year, I transferred 4 family phones from Optus to the regular 4-phone Aldi Family plan, so hopefully can talk you through the process:
Then:
Each Aldi mobile number will retain it's own $5 credit, which will be used for anything that is not included in the Family plan - although for us we've not done anything that's incurred any further charges so that credit sits there unused. If I cancel the Family Plan, then the phones will start using their $5 credit as a regular Pay As You Go plan.
The next Optus bill came through, and I was charged for the part of the month up until the day I ported to Aldi, so no bill overlap at all.
I didn't even get a phonecall from Optus trying to win me back.
@CountingRocks: Thanks lots - just waiting for Optus to stop working.
I managed to pay the $45 twice, but can't see why they won't add it to my next bill.
Thanks to all that helped.
Follow the details in each pack to register both in your name, saying each time that you wish to port your existing number
Anyway you can have separate names ? eg a sim for my parter, one for me, her SIM in her name but on the family plan ?
You can also buy the $5 SIMs on their website & get it delivered to you if you are not near a store:
https://www.aldimobile.com.au/products/payg
Make sure you have your Account Number from Optus. You will need that for the porting, so make sure you have it ready when you activate the AldiMobile. Another thing to watch out for is porting on Sunday. I will recommend doing it on Friday, in case of anything, you get a faster response on Friday.
Do they offer roaming as well? All MVNO's stopped offering it.
I like the $110/6 user option for my large family
Pity it wasn't 3 users.
I have always been on a contract.
Can you setup a direct debit or something similar so that when your 30 days is coming up it automatically rolls over to the next month, or do you need to manually recharge each billing cycle?
Assume no minimum term also
you can do direct debit (auto renewal)
Hi, does anybody know if Apple Watch cellular service will work with Aldi sim? I am currently with Vodafone and it works fine.
No
Just Telstra, Optus and Vodafone.
Thanks
i would love this so i have a sim for my car but no visual voicemail is a deal breaker for me
I think I prefer the Belong offering if not consuming that volume of data. Effectively $50/month for two services sharing 41GB but allows you to spend less if you use less data (e.g. $35/month for 21.5GB shared) and not fixed to two services. With Belong you also assign the data to each service - its not drawn from a shared pool. Both have generous data banking (something unique to the Aldi Family offering - the other Aldi offerings are more restrictive with limits).
You get what you pay for with Aldi. I have dual sim both Telstra and Aldi. The reception on Aldi is only about half as strong as on Telstra. I get full bars on Telstra but only 2 with Aldi. I've found MMS messages to be extremely hit and miss on Aldi. They usually require multiple attempts to send and sometimes they flat out refuse to send. I also occasionally experience very long SMS send and delivery times on Aldi. I don't have any issues on the Telstra sim only the Aldi one. It's a far inferior network.
Boots currently on sale half price for $40 plan https://boost.com.au/shop/40-prepaid
That's mean 2 users for $40 but I don't know it switches back to $40 after a certain time
from month 2 onwards you have to pay $40 per service
Family plan with two kids..
That's discriminating against Catholics.
If this plan has data roll over pls be aware. I used to use their four user family plans(80 dollars a month). To use the data roll over all users (can be one two three or four) MUST ALL used their allocated data BEFORE you can use the roll over. Example if you allocate 20gb 20gb 20gb and 20gb. All four users must all use up their 20gb before you can use the roll over data. If only one person used up and the other three have not that person will either have no data or use their PAYG credit until others used up or end of month. In practice the data roll over in family plan is a gimmick.
Also if you enabled auto recharge on any plan(single family. ) when the recharge happens usually on the mid night on the last day of your plan expires. You will have a small window of time without data unable to make phone calls…. it is kind of dodgy.
Anyone know if this wholesaler allows wifi calling? All over my work I have >=2 bars but can never receive calls with belong. colleagues beside me on full telstra and optus don't have issues when on the wifi or on just the network. Not sure what else is different between my belong connection and their telstra except the wifi calling enabled… but this shouldn't affect network only calls…
Im on the ALDI $80 family plan with my partner and 2 step sons. My partners iphone screen cracked from falling off the stairs so she bought a plan with optus. She tried to get her old number ported to optus but when they tried it turns out her phone number now belongs to me because im the family plan owner of our aldi account. We called aldi customer service to undo this and asked them if that is truly the case that I have taken ownership of anyones number under my account, and the customer service said yes.
So we basically said f it, we just gonna use the esim on her new iphone and add the aldi sim card to make her old number still work. It did work out in the end but just a heads up to anyone porting out from an aldi family plan
You will have to pay. $5 each. But that will loaded as credit onto the sim card.
Correct, once ported, your contract with Optus will be over. Depending on your billing period, there may be a little overlap where you might still get billed, but once the final accout is paid, no more Optus.