Best Prepaid Mobile

Virgin Mobile allows you to bring your own phone and buy a Starter Kit with $10 Bean Counter credit.

With Just Mobile’s new Just 15 plan, its great rates and no flagfall everyday, everywhere.

Your credits never expire. Great for mum or grandma who never uses the mobile phone,but you want to know that you can reach them.

Best Prepaid Mobile & Prepaid Broadband News

Telstra Prepaid Mobile Broadband Plans
Telstra offers a startup of $10 worth of credit. Telstra meters the value of the data on your plan, not the number of megabytes you have left. The initial $10 offers 75MB, and you can add credit to your pre-paid account; that credit reduces at a fixed rate per megabyte used and will expire after 30 days unless you recharge the service. When you recharge, any remaining credit is rolled over. The fixed rate varies based on the amount of credit you last put on your service. For example, if you put $20 of credit in, Telstra charges 13.3c per megabyte (that works out to 150MB for $20). But if you put $80 of credit in, Telstra reduces the rate to just 2.25c per megabyte, which applies to all your remaining credit, not just the $80.

Optus Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Optus prices range from $15 for 500MB to $100 for 6.9GB – and you start off with 2GB (+ 15SMS) when you buy the $69 modem. You can have up to 10GB of credit on your service at one time. Each recharge gives you a bonus of 15% plus some free SMS. A $15 recharge voucher will expire in 15 days; $30 to $50 will expire in 30, a $70 or $100 recharge will expire in 60. Starter Packs are $99 with 1GB of data (30 days) at the moment so get in quick. Your data usage is metered in 10MB blocks, and even using a 1MB in a day reduces your quota by 10MB. To offset this somewhat, Optus effectively gives to 20MB “free” every day. If you have your own compatible and approved modem, then simply buy a sim card for $30, with 1GB data and 30 days to use it.

Exetel Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Exetel’s pricing starts at $15 for 550MB and ranging to $45 for 3GB. Huawei E160e modem is available for $95, or you can bring your own for just $25 (cost of sim card).

Dodo Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Dodo has the 2nd most competitive offering in the market probably behind Exetel. There is a great range of plans that can be purchased based on required bandwidth or data or in terms of hours. You start with $10 for 250MB for 30 days or 10 hrs and then increase all of the way to 15GB for $139 lasting a whole year. Note you also get a bonus of either 250MB access per month for 12 months, 5GB lasting 30 days or 100 hours lasting 30 days. The only thing to be aware of is their reputation on service, not great at the moment. Starter pack is $99, the sim card on its own is free (no bonus available).

Virgin Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Virgin was one of the first providers of prepaid mobile broadband and continues to provider a competitive offering. They have 30, 60, 90 and a 365 day option as well as data options starting with 500MB with a $15 recharge and 6GB for $100. Their starter pack is of great value at $89 and includes a USB modem plus 5GB data. What is also of value is that they are backed by Optus and have a strong following so the customer service should also be pretty good.

If you already have a compatible and approved modem, then simply pickup a sim card for $10, includes 300MB data and 30 days in which to use it.

Three Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Three Mobile offers you the ability to purchase the USB outright for just $79. Recharge vouchers are then available for $15 for 500MB, $29 for 2GB or $49 for 4GB. This data expires within 30 days, although if you recharge your card within that period any unused quota will get rolled over.

There’s also an option of forking out $149 which gives you the USB starter kit plus 12GB that won’t expire for an entire year. You can have a total quota of up to 15GB on your card.

Vodafone Prepaid Mobile Broadband
Vodafone was a late entrant into the prepaid mobile broadband market but they are being recognised as having a reliable service if you live in the metro and outer suburban areas of Australia’s capital cities. What is also very exciting about Vodafone this month is that they are offering a Vodafone USB plus sim card plus 6GB Data (must be activated prior to for only $99 with the data lasting 90 days. This is one of the cheapest deals around today if you want to get started with a prepaid broadband plan.