A small service provider that offers both SIM-only and handset phone plans, TeleChoice differs from its competitors in a number of ways. Unlike most MVNOs, TeleChoice maintains brick-and-mortar stores nationwide and offers its postpaid plans on various plan periods, including month-to-month plans, 12 month and month plans.
Another way TeleChoice stands out is its Prepay plans, not to be confused with prepaid plans. If you sign up to a 12 or month plan, you can expect a lower monthly fee and you can save even more on the prepay plans. The below table features the month plans, which includes sponsored links. Postpaid plans can also be paired with any Woolworths Mobile device plan. Plans bundled with a phone are available on 24 or month payment periods, and you can choose from a selection of Samsung or OPPO devices.
Woolworths Mobile also offers prepaid plans, with some similarities to the postpaid options such as data banking. Known more for selling refurbished phones, Numobile has a simple range of SIM-only postpaid phone plans that run month-to-month. Each plan also includes a data bank of up to GB of data, so any unused data for that month will roll over into the next month. If you run out of data, you can use gigabytes stored in your data bank, or you can purchase a data add-on. Pennytel has had an interesting history, having relaunched on the Telstra network in early after the telco liquidated back in This small telco keeps things simple with four postpaid plans available, all of which come with unlimited calls and SMS.
Pennytel prides itself on comprehensive customer service, with service hours on Monday to Friday from 8am to midnight, and from 9am to 9pm on weekends. The below table includes all seven plans and sponsored links. Most of these packs also include unlimited standard calls and SMS to 15 select countries.
ALDI Mobile does have some competitive rates with good included value. You can get a couple of cheap plans with no international call inclusions, but the XS, S, M, L and XL plans are where the value for money really is with international call inclusions. Lycamobile uses the Telstra 4G and 3G networks, and offers multilingual customer service. All plans are available month-to-month and include unlimited standard national calls and SMS.
Data inclusions start at 1GB and go up to GB so there are choices for a range of data users. The telco giant has a decent selection of prepaid plans with expiry periods starting at 7 days and going up to days. It doesn't make sense to choose a different technology path when you don't have backwards compatibility. So it's all about the efficiency of carrying data on the network. LTE is just a far more efficient technology in terms of the cost base.
And remember, for us to be able to maintain margins in that market, we really need to be driving down costs on the network," Telstra CEO David Thodey said recently. Meanwhile, WiMax, the alternate next-generation mobile technology to LTE, seems less likely to gain a foothold in Australia. However, that was canned by the current Labor government to make way for its National Broadband Network. Vividwireless had also been heading down the WiMax path, but now looks to be switching lanes into LTE.
According to Leins, the reason that telcos have picked LTE is because it's on the ongoing evolution path of the same standards group that does 2G and 3G networks, which would require much less work and cost for telcos to upgrade their networks. As an operator if you choose to ignore that and start fresh, it's a big financial decision," he said.
Instead, carriers are choosing to keep their older networks active and interoperable with new networks. In Australia, it seems, deployment of LTE networks is being held back by one factor: there's no spectrum.
Carriers are, not so patiently, waiting for the Australian Communications and Media Authority's auction of "waterfront" MHz spectrum, which is being freed up by the move from analog to digital television.
This is scheduled to occur in In the meantime, Telstra has forged ahead with its LTE plans, deciding to use the MHz spectrum that it currently has used for 2G service, which are required less and less for services in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, until more spectrum becomes available. Vodafone has also committed to using its MHz spectrum for the new technology. In addition to being the areas where people are more likely to adopt LTE right away, the CBDs are more likely to have more towers, as would be required of the higher spectrum frequency.
To ensure the future of LTE on any spectrum, the devices will likely be multiband, meaning that once more spectrum is made available, it will be able to switch over as the LTE network is expanded. This spectrum is viewed as ideal for providing data services, and is already in use for the largest deployment of LTE in the world — Verizon in the United States.
Huawei's Bromhead said that the lower frequency spectrum is ideal because it can cover a wider distance and has greater building penetration. If you double the frequency then you need almost three times the number of base stations to cover that area," he said.
Another reason behind the delay in moving to Long Term Evolution, according to Leins, was the availability of fibre backhaul. It may be one reason as to why Vodafone looked to secure fibre backhaul to its mobile base stations as part of its recent agreement to get on board the NBN as a retail service provider.
Bromhead said it was early days for LTE devices, but the ones that Australia will get will likely support a variety of spectrum bands as well as traditional 3G networks. Once the auction has gone ahead all carriers will likely be charging head long into the new mobile standard and onwards to Long Term Evolution. So it won't feel that long until Australians get to taste the faster speeds that 4G will have on offer. Singtel lifted in steady first half by operations outside Singapore.
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Learn more about Endless Mobile and Endless Group plans. What does Endless data mean? Who is eligible for these plans? Spark consumer and business customers can buy these plans. Why does Spark exclude tethering and hotspots? What is the Hotspot extra? You can share with these companions once you've bought, and been connected your Endless Group Plan. You need to sign in to the Spark app or MySpark to add these companions. Each of the companion plans have their own line number, Endless data, SMS and minutes allocations.
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