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One Mobile launches Cherry Popper Prepaid

November 30, 2011

A new mobile service aimed at teenagers launched this morning with a “cherry-popper starter kit” sim card, encouraging potential customers to “get it on” and “flip around”. But the launch, which comes a week after the Australian Association of National Advertisers released a new ethics code with tougher guidelines against advertising that may sexualise children, [...]

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Poll: How much of your call and data allowance do you use?

November 30, 2011

A particular Telco in the UK contacted me a week ago regarding my thoughts on the prepaid mobile market in Australia and what was working and not. See last week’s post on this. I offered to assist them by running a poll on my site covering the amount of your prepaid cap credit that is [...]

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International Calls Connection Charges

November 28, 2011

Over the weekend I was undertaking my regular review of international calling charges offered by several of the prepaid mobile phone providers. 2011 has certainly been the year where a lot of the prepaid mobile focus has been on international calling offers. Lyca Mobile have entered Australia, Virgin and Telstra have new offers. Optus have [...]

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Building A Prepaid Mobile Plan

November 24, 2011

One of the more enjoyable aspects of building and managing www.prepaidplans.com.au has been the engagement with the Telco and their advertising agencies as well as the feedback and insights you receive from the everyday customer. This week I was contact by an international Telco who is in negotiations to launch a prepaid mobile service in [...]

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Apple Black Friday – Discount Apple

November 23, 2011

It only happens once a year at Apple. It’s called Black Friday and it is their one day big sale day for everything that is Apple. From iPhones to iPads to macs and iPods. Apple discount everything on this one day so that you can get your Christmas presents nice and early. Question is how [...]

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Mobi Passport now in Australia

November 20, 2011

Simon from Mobi Passport contacted me earlier this week to see if I was interested in listing their services on www.prepaidplans.com.au. At this stage I will do a quick review of the offers they have and how they may differ from the other international roaming sims on our site. What is Mobi Passport? At first [...]

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Prepaid Phone Cards

November 17, 2011

They are everywhere aren’t they, 0c for this country, 0c for that one. Is it real? Can they seriously be charging you so little to make telephone calls yet your fixed line phone company (Optus or Telstra) charge you $dollars per minute not cents? Well it is real. Yes it is but you do need [...]

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Crazy Johns Value Packs Now Month to Month

November 16, 2011

The Crazy John’s website says it and so do their support team on Twitter. Crazy Johns Value Packs which are normally 12 month contracts are now month to month plans if you BUY ONLINE. You need to however BUY ONLINE. Crazy John’s Value Packs come in four flavours and then you have loads of extras [...]

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Virgin Your Caps – Bonus Credit

November 14, 2011

Virgin is currently running a prepaid offer with its Your Caps whereby if you sign up and recharge on a Your Cap of $29 or more, they will give you $200 of bonus credit. It isn’t a once off $200, the bonus applies to the first 6 recharges you do before 31/7/2012. That means a [...]

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Woolworths Prepaid Cap – Half Price Starter Kit

November 12, 2011

For a limited time, purchase a Woolworths Mobile $2 sim and $29 recharge in the same transaction and you’ll get it for $15.50 – that’s half price! For $15.50 you’ll get: $2 Woolworths Mobile sim or micro sim $500 worth of value $250 to any network (excluding Pivotel $250 to any Optus or Woolworths mobile [...]

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