VHA increases data quotas as users choose mobile internet
- 30 August, 2010 12:06
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Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has increased the data quotas of its Vodafone and 3 contract caps, a change the telco attributes to the rising use of mobile internet and 3G services in Australia.
According to the company, the number of customers using mobile broadband or 3G services on their handset has grown some 150 per cent over the 12 months to June.
The revamped offerings include more data in all postpaid plans ranging in price from $19 to $99 per month for new and upgrading customers on a 24 month contract.
Most data quotas have been increased by at least double the original amount, with the exception of its $99 ‘unlimited cap’, while the prices remain the same.
The telco is also spruiking a new $59 Promo cap on a 24-month contract for both Vodafone and 3, on which the iPhone 4 and Sony Ericsson X10 (running on the Android platform) are available for $0 upfront.
The plan includes $650 of call value, 2GB of data and ‘unlimited’ standard SMS and MMS and is available to new and upgrading customers between 25 August and 25 November.
VHA recently released its iPhone 4 pricing for both Vodafone and 3 brands, which consist of monthly plans starting competitively low at $29 with Vodafone, and $39 with 3.
Telstra, Optus and Apple also released pricing details for the iPhone 4, with the two former offering monthly capped plans starting at $49 and upwards.
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Great Indian OZ
If you are on existing 49 CAP. Bad luck!
Upgrading to 59 CAP will not void your handset charges!
This is only for new customers or for those who upgrade today onwards!
What a ripoff!
Going Telstra
And the coverage is terrible,
We are moving to Telstra,
Cheap phone plans don't work when it takes 3 calls to have a conversation.
3 stands for 3 calls per conversation!
VodafoneNeedMoreBases
Unfortunately the Vodafone coverage is appalling.
Even in Sydney, in high-population areas, I find myself having to stand outside a house or a building in order to hold a call without dropouts.
In Cremorne I had to stand in the rain to take an important call - no coverage inside a house.
On the Gold Coast in a high-rise, an Optus 3G connection ran for 4 days with only one dropout, whereas my VF handset needed to be near the window or on the balcony to get a voice connection.
And if voice can't hold a connection, 3G certainly cannot.
Vodafone's coverage is even a poor second to Optus.
And anywhere outside large cities/towns, you are lucky to have VF coverage on the highway and very lucky to have any coverage a few Km either side of a major highway even if that highway has VF coverage.
VF's model seems to be only to address the market via pricing and marketing. How about spending some more on infrastructure, instead of just acting as if that battle is lost ?
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