A few years ago I became fed up with paying way too much for capped mobile phone and data plans and moved to a provider that offered basically pay as you go mobile phone and data service.
Unfortunately that provider ceased offering international roaming with that service and to be honest the $300.00 pre paid deposit required to enable international roaming when it was offered was a little prohibitive.
amaysim was short-listed and kept staying at the top of options in all the comparisons due to low call charges on a pay as you go plan, low sms, no flag fall for calls which can really add up, and reasonably competitive pay as you go data. The Optus network used by amaysim is the same as the previous pay as you go mobile phone provider. Other features was the option to move to a $39.90 per month unlimited plan at any time offering Unlimited standard national talk and text and Unlimited access to social networks + 4GB data per month.
The change over was made a few months ago for 2 personal phones, the rates were that lo for one phone that the first bill was not issued until 3 months had elapsed? The second phone had low call charges but higher data use. The addition of a $99.90 data pack which lasts for up to 365 days and or 10GB alleviated the higher data cost for this user and has brought the monthly bills for that service down equal to the previous provider who offered lower pay as you go data and billed data in blocks of kilobytes instead of blocks or megabytes as amaysim does on the pay as you go plans.
I just don't see any sense in getting a capped mobile and data plan with a mobile phone when is is almost always much less cost to simply buy the hardware outright and use a pay as you go provider such as amaysim and pay simple $0.15 cent low rates to any network at any time with no flag fall instead of paying rates of up to $1.30 a minute plus up to $1.30 flag fall per call! These charges make the phones I usually buy outright seem cheap!
anyway mobile phone provider amaysim reselling the Optus network in Australia at present are very competitive and to data I have been very satisfied.
