Best Deals, Networks for the iPhone

Looking to purchase the new iPhone?

If your answer is yes then which carrier do you choose, which telco is offering the best bang for your buck?

We have scoured the internet to provide you the best pre-purchase information, no exuses now, read the following and end up with a better deal.

iPhone: Telstra can’t beat Optus

TELSTRA will only offer a paltry 5MB of download allowance when it reveals its iPhone 3G pricing plans tomorrow. iPhone: Telstra can’t beat Optus

Telstra¿s tepid iPhone plans will position Optus as the carrier with the best bang-for-buck plan
According to a preliminary report from financial analyst outfit Citi Smith Barney, the telco’s pricing will mirror its existing mobile phone plans (click on table below).

Under the details revealed by Citi, Telstra’s $80 a month plan for the iPhone will come with $70 worth of calls and text, and 5MB of data allowance.

Prior to the report, Telstra had only revealed it would offer the iPhone on 24-month contracts starting at $30 per month with an upfront cost of $279 for the 8GB model and $399 for the 16GB model, or on contracts for $80 or $100 per month where no upfront costs were required.

Telstra’s tepid iPhone plans will position Optus as the carrier with the best bang-for-buck plan when the device launches across the country tomorrow morning.

On the Optus $79 iPhone plan customers will receive $550 worth of calls and text, and 700MB of data allowance.
iPhone price comparison

In comparison Vodafone’s $69 per month iPhone plan will include $350 worth of calls and SMS, and 250MB worth of data downloads. Customers must also front an additional $189 for the handset under the Vodafone deal.

The Citi report contends that Telstra’s iPhone strategy is to rely on its vast network coverage to woo customers instead of offering large data packages.

While the miniscule 5MB of data allowance will no doubt alarm potential iPhone customers, the Citi report says the low data capacity has been included to protect Telstra’s walled garden of online content.

Telstra currently offers a range of Foxtel packages that allow mobile phone users to access online content for a fixed monthly amount. Telstra customers browsing BigPond websites are not charged any additional fees.

“Pricing seems to be voice centric and designed to protect existing BigPond/Foxtel mobile content offering,” reads the report.

Telstra was contacted but unable to comment on Citi’s report at the time of publication.

Source: news.com.au