I am porting out today. No real choice. No more Kogan Mobile.
Don...
I am porting out today. No real choice. No more Kogan Mobile.
Don...
-- Don McKenzie $30 for an Olinuxino Linux PC:
Con wrote
Amaysim works fine for me.
What I don't understand is why is there a need for ISPone, couldn't Telstra sell their network at budget rates themselves?
I'm using
Then ALL of their customers would want 12cpm and that would send them to the wall.
In Sydney Amaysim work for me SIMcards are avaiable BIG W Caltex for $2
-- Petzl I started with nothing and I am proud to say I still have most of it left
Hmm, that's true, but the companies I listed below seem to have bypassed ISPone & have an agreement to use Telstra network!?
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But then they would lose the much higher revenue they already have.
They don?t have to pay the droids that answer the phones either.
Ported my wife to Amaysim last Friday, and mine today in 3 minutes. Took a little longer to set up the APN parameters and get data working, but very happy with Amaysim already. Network isn't as good as Telstra, but really doesn't worry me.
Got 10 gig data on each phone, and $15 credit on a pay as you go. See how I go with this. Easily changed anyway. Can tether the wife's iPOD and iPAD when we travel.
Cheers Don...
-- Don McKenzie $30 for an Olinuxino Linux PC:
I think that I'll probably go with Amaysim too, the deal is pretty thin though compared to what Kogan gave and it is on Optus which, in my experience, gives a whole lot less coverage than Telstra.
I won't be hurrying, I'm going overseas next week for 5 weeks, I'll fix it up when I get back (I've got a Trufone sim to use overseas that can also be used locally if needed) hopefully the rush will be over by then.
Well it finally hit the fan yesterday for Kogan. Telstra has closed shop on wholesale on-seller ISPone due to non payment of accounts, and consequently Telstra has had to shut down Kogan Mobile. You can no longer log into your KM account, all you get is a text message.
Reports of porting trouble also claiming that ISPone has pulled the database. Not sure if that is 100% true, but users reporting problems. I guess with 110K+ users looking for a new home, there will be porting issues.
I managed to port to Amaysim in a total 3 or 4 minutes, just hours before the fan was solidly hit.
Kogan are offering a pro-rata refund on outstanding services not supplied.
Net Result after reading whirlpool thread: Telstra stinks, ISPone is dead in the water, and Kogan ended up with a bad name that has hurt their brand. At least Kogan had a try.
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Cheers Don...
-- Don McKenzie $30 for an Olinuxino Linux PC:
Well, the Dutch 'Telstra' - KPN - has several sub-brands which have different and often lower rates than their parent company (and use the same network). So even for a presumed commodity as a mobile service, there apparently is room and 'need' for different brands/product_models.
FWIW, the one I'm using has a rate which is quite close to (AUD)
12cpm! :-) The master company's (KPN's) rate is three times as high. (KPN). And another sub-brand even has a 20% higher rate than the master company.
That's why Skype is good to get working on a Smart Phone internationally you can make cheap calls just from any WiFi source like Macca's Data SIMS can usually be got from most petrol stations
-- Petzl I started with nothing and I am proud to say I still have most of it left
What differentiates the products to justify the price differences?
AFAICT/IMO not much. Little things like yes/no flagfall, charge per minute or per second, difference if price for SMS, etc..
The highest-priced product is targeted at young people! Go figure! It's name is "Hi". How funky is *that*, NOT!
But perhaps there's other stuff I missed, which is important to some, but not to others.
All in all, also this is YMMV, buyer-beware, etc..
For example my (Dutch) Vodafone service is much more expensive for calls than my KPN-subbrand. But Vodafone's day-bundle for data is much bigger for the same price and automatic (i.e. charged when you use it, not charged when not) and abroad, in some 60 countries, Vodafone charges local call rates with a 'high' flagfall: A call in Oz costs the same as a local Dutch call, plus (about) AUD 1 for the whole call. (Actually this was such a good deal, that they withdrew it for new use, but if you're already on it, they'll continue to honor it, until you 'decide' (possibly by accident) to enroll in one of their new plans.)
So, like with anything in life, it's impossible to say "Brand/subbrand/ product X is better/cheaper/ than brand/subbrand/product Y.".
I am with Kogan. They have sent me messages saying they will no longer be able to provide a service, and to make other arrangements.
David
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