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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
Leaked Telstra iPhone plans show the biggest Telco in the land intends to milk iPhone customers for all they can.
While still unofficial, Telstra plans, scanned from a shop staff training pack, have shown up at the Australian Mac user site MacTalk. The news, it seems, isn't good. In fact, for most non-business, non-high end customers they are just plain bad.
Details are still incomplete, but according to the Telstra only higher end plans come with enough data to be considered reasonable. For instance, a monthly spend of $89 nets you 200MB of included data, but stepping down to a $59 plan reduces that down to 80MB.
If the document is to be believed, the plans are also broken up in two tables for each of the different model iPhones - something that could indicate different pricing for a 12 versus 24 month contract. However, if that's the case, Telstra's cheapest cap plan is $105 per month, a full $86 more expensive than the cheapest Optus plan.
View the plans here.
Read the full story here.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
Thanks to Melanie for sending this in. We had information yesterday about the Apple Store just offering Optus plans but did not post it up. We'll wait for this to be confirmed sometime today...
Just called the Apple store for advice on where to buy my iPhone (am so conflicted, kicking myself I didn't pre-register with Optus) and they told me that within the past hour the following had been communicated to staff:
Apple Store on George St Sydney will be opening at 8am
They will be selling the iPhone 3G
They will have all plans and providers available to choose from!
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
Thanks to Mark for sending this in. We're not sure about the credibility of this - best to check and ring up your local store to confirm for tomorrow.
Hi, I've spoken to two Telstra store owners today after their staff training nights last night in Vic. Both stores won't have stock tomorrow. They told me the only Telstra stores that will have stock are T-Life stores. Other stores will get stock next week and maintaining a waiting list.
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Thanks to everyone for tipping us with information about Friday's release of the iPhone. If you have any information about the iPhone, feel free to contact us.
So what's happening?
This post will be updated with information frequently so check back often! Note - the information below are not from official sources.
Optus
- Optus in George Street Sydney will open at midnight
- Optus Store in Queen Victoria Building Sydney will be "500+ handsets" and opening at 7AM
- Optus Store in Preston will be opening at 7AM
- Optus Stores in Adelaide will be having "50 handsets for this Friday and would get another batch of 50 handsets next Friday"
- Optus Store in Brisbane City will be have around 150+ units to fill in pre-orders. You will only be able to sign up the contact on Friday and by the time they fill out/process all the paper work, you might be able to pick up the phone on Tuesday
Telstra
- After a phone call to the 1800iPHONE number, Telstra advised that all stores will be selling and having stock at this stage and there are only 3 plans available. Any finer details and iPhone specific plans will be announced on Friday morning and people will be notified by SMS and/or email.
- Telstra Store in Belconnen Canberra are "not expecting much stock" for Friday
- Telstra Sydney T-Life Store staff training on tonight
- Telstra Sydney T-Life Store will be opening at 6AM - "first in best dressed"
- The iPhone will be available on 11th at T-Life Stores and some selected metropolitan Telstra Shops. Away from the metropolitan areas, the likely date is 18th to 25th July
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
Thanks to Jess for tipping us off!
Jess just got off the phone from Optus World in Marion, South Australia. Apparently, the opening hours for the iPhone launch is to be either at 7AM, or a midnight launch on July 11th. However, other rumours speculate that pre-registered members will receive the iPhone 2 hours before public release. Either 1. Pre-registered people get it at 7AM or midnight or 2. Pre-registered get it at 5AM or 3. Everyone gets it at 7AM/9AM or midnight. Yes, this is all to be speculated about - no official word from Optus yet.
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