Virgin to carry the iPhone

Thursday 31 July 2008
Virgin to carry the iPhone

As of Friday, August 1, Virgin Mobile will become the fourth mobile carrier to offer the iPhone in Australia.

Virgin sales staff have revealed that customers can get the 8GB device for free when signing up to a 24-month, $70 per month contract.

That plans provides $520 worth calls and texts and 1GB worth of data per month.

For an additional $15 per month, customers can add two extra gigabytes worth of data to their plan per month. This offering may be a case of Virgin having learnt from the mistakes of its competitors, as much controversy has surrounded the data usage allowances included in the plans of the current three carriers.

Virgin said more details about the 16GB plan will be released on Friday, but some sources have claimed it will run at about an extra $4 a month for the 70 cap plan.
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Comments: 5
PhilGoodInc
31 July 2008
 This is great news for the Australian consumers wanting a piece of Apple - that is in the iPhone. Although Virgin doesn't have a market share as that of the other telecommunications companies, another service provider does grant people more of a choice, as well as providing competition and hopefully some price cuts.





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As of Friday, August 1, Virgin Mobile will become the fourth mobile carrier to offer the iPhone in Australia.

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jaso272
1 August 2008
 As of 12.06AM 01/08/08 the virgin mobile website (www.virginmobile.com.au) is NOW SELLING the iPhone 3G in all capacities with either a:

$70/month (free 8gb iPhone OR +$4/month 16gb iPhone: $520 credit + 1GB data) or

$100/month (free 8gb OR free 16gb iPhone: $520 credit + 5GB data... YES 5GB! beat that telstra stinges)

So as predicted, the rumours are completely proven! These plans are cheaper than whats been offered by vodafone and optus (even though virgin is owned by optus), and RIDICULOUSLY cheaper than anything telstra has to offer.

Sadly I waited up all night constantly refreshing safari as soon as the clock hit midnight. Even sadder is that as I am already with virgin mobile, I will have to wait until 8am tomorrow morning to ring virgin to sort out upgrading my handset (samsung u700 that came with the cap plan, but purchased the 1st gen iphone from US unlocked).

Finally glad to see a semi-reasonable iPhone plan for australia, though hardly anything to compete with overseas telcos plan deals, but it's at least a start.
mordie
1 August 2008
 Let's see what 3 bring to the table ... I have a feeling they will be announcing their handset (iphone) deals soon....

They have announced plans for people with iphone who want to move to 3 caps though...
geller
1 August 2008
 HAHAHAAAAAA... look who's also dropping prices: http://www.pcauthority.com.au/BlogEntry/118370,next-g-drops-data-prices-as-3-unveils-7gb-wireless-plans.aspx
loksze
4 August 2008
 Overall, Virgin Mobile has the best price and value at the moment compared with 3 iphone byo cap plan by about $100.
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