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New TOPLESS mobile plan for $99.00 from Virgin - UNLIMITED CALLS

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New TOPLESS mobile plan for $99.00 from Virgin - UNLIMITED CALLS
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Pspeed8504 on 18/08/2008 - 15:47 virginmobile.com.au (1078 clicks)

Virgin released new unlimited calls plan (Topless) to beat Optus "New Timeless plans"

For $99.00 a month you get the following, plus no commitment/contract

  • UNLIMITED Standard CALLS to GSM Mobiles in Oz
  • UNLIMITED Standard TEXT to GSM Mobiles in Oz
  • UNLIMITED Standard LOCAL & NATIONAL CALLS in Oz
  • FREE VOICEMAIL in Oz
  • 1 GB MOBILE DATA#

Its a pretty good deal when compared to optus $115.00 / $119.00 and $129.00 Timeless plans.

To be more cheeky,
If you are sharing a house, how about share this plan with your roommates (buy a virgin mobile (say E250 for $79.00) and keep it at home)and use it as a homephone, so you get unlimited calls to anywhere in australia and you have to pay only a part of $99.00. ($49.50 if sharing with 2 or $33.00 if sharing with 3 .. :)) and NO contract, how sweet is that.

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  • scotty on 18/08/2008 - 18:13

    Looks like a good deal! I can already think of someone that I know who have kept multiple phones/plans so she can use the specials from all the mobile networks. She can just replace them with one of this…

    • speed8504 on 18/08/2008 - 18:27

      Hey scotty,

      Well said. I am one of them who keeps optus prepaid for my optus friends, virgin to call virgin friends for free (unlimited calls & text) and vodafone for my vodafone friends, and more for calling overseas. But dilemma is, keeping like this gives them the opportunity to call me as well, whereas going for this plan, they cant call me.
      But then, they can give miss call, and I have to call back, which is a option, but still …

  • Durian Pancake on 18/08/2008 - 18:34

    Compared to all the caps available you really need to make an enormous amount of calls for this to be worthwhile.
    Great deal none the less.

    "Fair Use policy applies" I wonder what they do if you use it 24/7.

    • speed8504 on 18/08/2008 - 18:47

      One of my phone plan is with virgin $65.00 cap which gives you $500.00 worth of calls/text/etc
      But to be frank, it finishes pretty fast for me , say in 10-15 days, bcoz of their huge call rates(all cap rates are shocking) and the stupid flagfalls.
      For eg: you called a friend to say where u r, or where we will catch up tonite (a call that lasts say less than 40 secs ), you will be paying a flagfall of $.40 + $.8 for 1 min call which is a total of $1.20.
      The same thing happens if u hit a stupid voice message.
      So cap plans just finish like that.

      • WaywardOne on 19/08/2008 - 15:09

        Yeah cap plans are definitely like that!
        They are designed to impress people — "I couldn't possibly run up a $500 phone bill" — always forgetting the obscenely high call rates! Then they blow their cap and have to pay an (obscenely high) excess….poor poor consumers.

    • ronnknee on 19/08/2008 - 13:19

      Well said, to me it's not worth it but that's just me. How can people possibly talk for that long with everyone? I mean, Free V2V is already more than enough for me haha

      • SomeGuyOnOzB on 21/08/2008 - 13:02

        I did a bunch of calculations to compare against VoiP but in the end it's pretty simple …

        If you are paying over $100 a month on your mobile or your house phone, you probably want to look at this plan from Virgin (provided you are covered by the Optus network, which is what Virgin uses). (Provided that $100 a month is on calls and/or text) :) :) :)

        House phone replacement?

        Standard calls to landlines and mobiles + SMS only -> looks like a yes if your phone bill is $100 or over

        Anything beyond that … might not be a full or ideal replacement.

        eg Faxing, making calls to 13 or other such numbers, etc. Also people can now mobile browse and share the bill, others might be new to mobile browsing and could be unaware of how quickly the bill skyrockets … etc

        Hmm … if you talk a lot with a few people, it might be cheaper for your group to use Virgin and Free V2V :) I do that with some of my family and some friends :)

  • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2008 - 19:29

    Seems like a great deal. But why Optus is competing against themselves and even beating their own price under a different brand is beyond me lol

  • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2008 - 19:33

    Also..Optus 'timeless' also gives you unlimited Video calling, and Virgin doesn't give you ANY video calling, so if you use video calling, the small additional cost of going with optus is well worth it.

  • SirCH on 18/08/2008 - 20:40

    FYI Virgin aren't trying to 'beat' Optus' plans - Optus now own 100% of Virgin Mobile

  • wicked on 18/08/2008 - 21:06

    It's all about the reception and signal quality…

    • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2008 - 22:23

      Well its Optus, so you could certainly do worse (three) or a lot better (telstra), but for $99, you bearly get a 1Gb of data (on nextg), not to mention the call costs on top of that.

  • DrLobster on 19/08/2008 - 13:23

    This is a fantastic deal…But Im still trying to get my head around Free calls to GSM Mobiles. Does that mean you cant call anyone in Telstra (3G), Optus (3G) or Three (3G) coverage areas. I just dont get it?

  • DrLobster on 19/08/2008 - 20:46

    yep that is correct and that is the definition on the Optus site as well…still searching for answers though. Thinking now they may have been trying to exclude satellite calls. But sure its less confusing to say "Includes all mobile calls to Australian Mobiles" *Excludes calls to Satellites. Lets face it everyone reads the *fineprint these days. Was thinking of calling the customer service centre but i dont want to be told one thing only to find out something else when I get my bill…

  • c-dog on 21/10/2008 - 14:29

    "GSM mobiles" only is stated to ensure users that the free calls/calls rates are applicable to GSM mobile and not any other mobile network types such as Mobile Satellite Services. These can be hefty call rates.
    Next G, 2G etc would be classed as part of the GSM standard.

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