Optus, BYO plans and early termination

My wife's Optus contract is due to end soon. Already she's copping a barrage of
Asians calling her on behalf of Optus trying to get her to recontract and to buy
a new phone. And she continually declines.

Her N95's 2 years old now and occasionally it needs to be rebooted to get it
working. Sometimes it freezes, other times it stops receiving or sending
messages and a restart fixes this (and then 20 million SMS/MMSes start pouring
in).

She's considering signing up on a BYO plan on something that will better suit
her usage patterns with regards to calls (not that many), SMS/MMSes (heaps) and
data, (some).

But given the way the phone's been acting up, she made the point that if she
signed up for say, a BYO $29 cap with some data thrown in, what happens if the
N95 dies during that period? Could she recontract and get a new phone, say an
N97 Mini or some other phone that may take her fancy? If so, would there be any
ETC penalties for the BYO plan?

Of course, she could source a phone, say, off Ebay and simply put the existing
SIM card in it and continue on.


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Computer games don't affect kids... I mean, if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

Mike Rofone wrote:
> My wife's Optus contract is due to end soon. Already she's copping a
> barrage of Asians calling her on behalf of Optus trying to get her to
> recontract and to buy a new phone. And she continually declines.
>
> Her N95's 2 years old now and occasionally it needs to be rebooted to
> get it working. Sometimes it freezes, other times it stops receiving
> or sending messages and a restart fixes this (and then 20 million
> SMS/MMSes start pouring in).
>
> She's considering signing up on a BYO plan on something that will
> better suit her usage patterns with regards to calls (not that many),
> SMS/MMSes (heaps) and data, (some).
>
> But given the way the phone's been acting up, she made the point that
> if she signed up for say, a BYO $29 cap with some data thrown in,
> what happens if the N95 dies during that period? Could she recontract
> and get a new phone, say an N97 Mini or some other phone that may
> take her fancy? If so, would there be any ETC penalties for the BYO
> plan?

> Of course, she could source a phone, say, off Ebay
> and simply put the existing SIM card in it and continue on.

Yes, thats what I mostly do.

No problem upgrading to a new handset whilst contracted to a BYO plan. There
are no fees to upgrade, just if you cancel/port out or switch to prepaid.

Your BYO bonus can be some free sms/mms, some included data or international
calls/sms. You can also select the option of bonus calls/sms within
Australia.

The bonus sms with a data bolt-on at $4.99pm for 75 mb, sounds like the
right combination for someone who uses lots of sms and some data.


"Mike Rofone" <mike_rofone@mic.org.nz> wrote in message
news:4qj8u516gc4nf0173ejuolr0c5lq56ncsv@astraweb.c om...
> My wife's Optus contract is due to end soon. Already she's copping a
> barrage of
> Asians calling her on behalf of Optus trying to get her to recontract and
> to buy
> a new phone. And she continually declines.
>
> Her N95's 2 years old now and occasionally it needs to be rebooted to get
> it
> working. Sometimes it freezes, other times it stops receiving or sending
> messages and a restart fixes this (and then 20 million SMS/MMSes start
> pouring
> in).
>
> She's considering signing up on a BYO plan on something that will better
> suit
> her usage patterns with regards to calls (not that many), SMS/MMSes
> (heaps) and
> data, (some).
>
> But given the way the phone's been acting up, she made the point that if
> she
> signed up for say, a BYO $29 cap with some data thrown in, what happens if
> the
> N95 dies during that period? Could she recontract and get a new phone, say
> an
> N97 Mini or some other phone that may take her fancy? If so, would there
> be any
> ETC penalties for the BYO plan?
>
> Of course, she could source a phone, say, off Ebay and simply put the
> existing
> SIM card in it and continue on.
>
>
> --
> Computer games don't affect kids... I mean, if Pacman affected us as kids,
> we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to
> repetitive music.