{"id":2467,"date":"2014-02-20T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:16:45","slug":"new-telstra-plans-coming-march-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/new-telstra-plans-coming-march-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New Telstra Plans Coming March 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few early leaks, Telstra has made their new plans official:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The new Mobile Accelerate Plans launch 4 March and offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Casual Plans.<\/strong> Customers can bring their own device and pay month-to-month, giving them the benefits of the Telstra Mobile Network with no long-term contract commitment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data Share Plans.<\/strong> Customers can share data allowances across multiple devices including a tablet and laptop all on a single bill allowing them to make their data go further.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BYO and BYO Data Share plans.<\/strong> Customers simply bring their existing compatible mobile to Telstra, and enjoy better value than the equivalent Mobile Accelerate Plan.<\/li>\n<li>Optional data packs and data share packs to flexibly boost monthly data allowances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re definitely cheaper than the last batch of Telstra plans, though I&#8217;d still characterize their data usage as a bit skimpy (the $55 per month plan only comes with 500MB, for example).<\/p>\n<p>One unique feature Telstra is launching on these plans: for an extra $10 a month you can trade in your old handset at halfway mark of your 2 year plan; basically it&#8217;s a mid-cycle upgrade for $120. Telstra are the first to try this tactic in the Australian market, though carriers in the US introduced these upgrade paths in 2013 with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/10\/4511810\/is-t-mobiles-new-jump-plan-a-good-deal\">decidedly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/16\/4528404\/att-next-phone-upgrade-plans-a-huge-ripoff\">mixed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/18\/4535068\/verizons-edge-phone-upgrade-plan-same-bad-ripoff-as-att-next\">results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hit the jump for the full details, and we&#8217;ll have a full write up on whether these plans are better than the current prepaid offers in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a few early leaks, Telstra has made their new plans official: The new Mobile Accelerate Plans launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[95,620,91],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}