I have just received a huge amount of email and texts in regards to what Telstra’s data plans will be for the iPhone release here in Australia tomorrow. I had to read the article a few times and honestly still can’t believe it to be true. Are you sitting down?
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.
I guess we will have to wait till tomorrow to see if this is indeed the fact. If this is true it makes the plans offered by Rogers in Canada look sweet and the question needs to be asked how could apple possibly let a carrier offer the iPhone if this is what they are going to offer?
Source: Australian IT [view full story]
