If you recharge credit on your prepaid phone you now have to give them your card details because they disabled PayPal from their app.

  • YⓄ乙
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    11 months ago

    Lol I see a Boost rep on Lemmy. Hey, Boost is hell expensive when compared to others. Bring your prices down and i’ll think about switching.

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      11 months ago

      But not compared to regular Telstra its not, no. Show me a network with comparable coverage AND value to Boost and I’ll concede. But Boost is almost always the best option unless your budget extends to one of the JB Telstra plans.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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      11 months ago

      I buy the 365 day expiry for $250 whenever its on special, and that’s my years mobile plan covered for $21 a month.

      I’ve been on Vodafone and Optus too. Mostly out of spite from having to deal with Telstra’s billing which is a disaster.

      Vodafone surprisingly good, Optus terrible. Vodafones main issue was coverage… any time I headed out west for work it would die anywhere outside of civilisation. And I have never received so much spam SMS as I did in the 3 months I was with Optus. Also missed calls come through in oddly formatted numbers so they don’t appear to be from your contact… i.e. the missed call SMS shows “you missed a call from 1234567890” and the SMS shows it came from 6112345690 instead of John Smith, even if John Smith is saved with the correct +6112345690 formatting (or ‘wrong’ 1234567890 formatting).

      The only Boost I’ve ever repped was boostcruising.com, RIP that place. If Boost Mobile want to flick us some bucks I’ll take it though!

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        11 months ago

        Coles and amaysim got a better deal. Check it out.

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          11 months ago

          But they aren’t Telstra, they’re Telstra Wholesale. The difference in coverage is critical - IMO - because although it’s only another 1ish percent of the population, that translates to a huge amount of extra surface area. And those are the areas I go.

          For some people they may be options worth considering, but if you’re able to do with a smaller coverage footprint you may as well go all the way and jump on Vodafone. They have even better deals.

    • Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I thought you “maintained a certain lifestyle”? Maybe you should ask you’re wife how you could save a little more cash around the house