{"id":4197,"date":"2015-09-12T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2015-09-12T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T07:53:42","slug":"iphone-6s-plans-i-am-confused-so-just-tell-me-what-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/features\/iphone-6s-plans-i-am-confused-so-just-tell-me-what-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 6s Plans: I am confused, so just tell me what to buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably perused our iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Plan Megapost<\/a> and come away from it feeling confused, and a little scared. Maybe a little bit of wee came out when you saw all those dollar signs\u00a0and options, a lot of them with big numbers\u00a0alongside them.<\/p>\n

I do not blame you! A lot of this is intentionally confusing, to make straight-up comparisons across providers difficult. No\u00a0provider\u00a0wants to be objectively worse than another.<\/p>\n

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Let me make some assumptions here on your behalf; if you’re looking for an iPhone, you don’t want a 16GB model. That’s terrible, you’ll hate yourself. So,\u00a0let’s go up a tier to an\u00a0iPhone 6s 64GB.<\/p>\n

You probably don’t want a iPhone 6s Plus because that phone is Too Damn Big. It might be cool for a while, but ultimately you don’t want a phone that feels\u00a0like you’re stuffing\u00a0a\u00a0chopping board in your dacks every day.<\/p>\n

I’ll also make an assumption that 0.5-1.5GB of\u00a0data is not going to be enough. Again, let’s go up to the next tier.<\/p>\n

I’m going to assume you can judge left-field\u00a0benefits (like Apple Music, Spotify, phone upgrade plans, international roaming or whatever) for yourself.<\/p>\n

Finally, I’m going to assume you don’t care about calls or text charges that much. Whatever plan you get, you’ll probably have enough.<\/p>\n

Hurry up and tell me what to buy<\/h3>\n

Fine! So, with those parameters in mind, you have the following options.<\/p>\n

iPhone 6s 64GB – Handset Plan<\/h2>\n

Upfront:<\/strong> $0<\/p>\n

Optus:<\/strong> $88 per month ($60 plan, $28 handset), 3GB of data<\/p>\n

Telstra:<\/strong>\u00a0$102 per month ($70 plan, $32 handset), 2.5GB of data<\/p>\n

Vodafone:<\/strong>\u00a0$90 per month ($60 plan, $30 handset), 3GB of data<\/p>\n

Commitment:<\/strong> 24 months<\/p>\n

iPhone 6s 64GB –\u00a0Prepaid<\/h2>\n

Upfront:<\/strong> $1,229.00<\/p>\n

Optus:<\/strong> $45 a month, 3.5GB of data.<\/p>\n

Telstra:<\/strong> $40 a month, 3GB of data.<\/p>\n

Vodafone:<\/strong> $40 a month, 3GB of data.<\/p>\n

Commitment:<\/strong> None. Leave when you want to.<\/p>\n

iPhone 6s 64GB – SIM Only Plan<\/h2>\n

Upfront:<\/strong> $1,229.00<\/p>\n

Optus:<\/strong> $45 a month, 4GB of data.<\/p>\n

Telstra:\u00a0<\/strong>$50 a month, 5GB of data.<\/p>\n

Vodafone:<\/strong> $40 a month, 4GB of data.<\/p>\n

Commitment:<\/strong> None. Leave when you want to.<\/p>\n

Last year’s iPhone plans were rubbish compared to prepaid. This year, it looks like plans have taken a bit of a course correction and appear to be fairly\u00a0reasonable in terms of\u00a0value for money.<\/p>\n

Aside from freedom, there’s not a ton\u00a0gained from going prepaid this time around. You have to weigh up what is more important to you; those left-field offers, or the freedom to port to whoever you want at any time.<\/p>\n

Hopefully that makes the vast amounts of options a little more bearable. Now go forth and spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You’ve probably perused our iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Plan Megapost and come away from it feeling confused,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[11],"tags":[1195,1196,92,95,93,1197,1198,91,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197"}],"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=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}