New Optus price plans

[Ext User(Kwyjibo.)]

Doesn anyone have any details on the new range of plans Optus are releasing
on August 8?
Supposed to have a bunch of cheap(er) voice and SMS plans.......

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[Ext User(Justern)]

Unless they includ GPRS/1300/13 numbers like voda, it's all hot air.

[Ext User(The Family)]

"Kwyjibo." <Kwyjibo@YourFingerFromThatDykeozdebate.com> wrote in message
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> Doesn anyone have any details on the new range of plans Optus are
> releasing
> on August 8?
> Supposed to have a bunch of cheap(er) voice and SMS plans.......
>

You wish.

The focus of all carriers is on upping yield. This is done by raising
per-minute rates, often heavily, especially for overseas calls. Optus, as
number 2, is hardly going to rock the boat - too much to lose.

Carrier advertising, of course, highlights the so-called "caps" - which are
not, as the term suggests, a maximum cost per month but merely a pause in
the call cost build while the customer recovers some of the call value that
has been lost to the higher per-minute rates that have been introduced in
the past year.

None of the mainstream carriers advertises call rates these days. A dark
secret that they don't want you to find out about until after you're locked
in and receiving bills.

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[Ext User(Michael)]

"The Family" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Kwyjibo." <Kwyjibo@YourFingerFromThatDykeozdebate.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96A2E54211363dddddd@203.26.24.228...
> > Doesn anyone have any details on the new range of plans Optus are
> > releasing
> > on August 8?
> > Supposed to have a bunch of cheap(er) voice and SMS plans.......
> >
>
> You wish.
>
> The focus of all carriers is on upping yield. This is done by raising
> per-minute rates, often heavily, especially for overseas calls. Optus, as
> number 2, is hardly going to rock the boat - too much to lose.
>
> Carrier advertising, of course, highlights the so-called "caps" - which
are
> not, as the term suggests, a maximum cost per month but merely a pause in
> the call cost build while the customer recovers some of the call value
that
> has been lost to the higher per-minute rates that have been introduced in
> the past year.
>
> None of the mainstream carriers advertises call rates these days. A dark
> secret that they don't want you to find out about until after you're
locked
> in and receiving bills.

What a load of rubbish. All carriers are very upfront in what you pay per
minute