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Virgin Mobile Australia Picking Up iPhone 3G Too; Data Galore!

Posted By Mariella Moon Published in Apple, iPhone

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The rumor’s been going around these past few days that Virgin Mobile is also picking up the iPhone 3G for Australia. That rumor is now confirmed: Virgin Mobile WILL BE, indeed, releasing the iPhone 3G in the country perhaps as early as this Friday although no official date was mentioned.

Virgin Mobile, being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Optus, would offer a plan for the iPhone 3G that’s quite similar to its parent company’s. The iPhone 3G 8GB version would be available for $0 up front payment on the 2-year $70 per month plan. The plan comes with $520 of texts and calls and 1GB of data download. Paying an additional $15 per month would up the data download capacity to 2GB, while an additional $30 (total of $100 monthly) would up it even further to 5GB. And, if you want the 16GB iPhone 3G, just get the Cap 100 plan to get it without additional costs or throw in $4 more per month with the Cap 70 plan.

via Gizmodo Australia

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One Response to “Virgin Mobile Australia Picking Up iPhone 3G Too; Data Galore!”

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Jason H Says, in 8-1-2008 at 00:41:39

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.