Boost 12 Month $150 80Gb

[Cuppa]

What network is that on NP? I assume not on Telstra?

[native pepper]

Amaysim use optus and according to my information and experience on the road, optus now has a wider coverage than telstra and less drop outs. Been with them for over 10 years, they provide excellent service and support, have 2 Phones, one for private and one for the band. My UBports ph which is private, runs on amyasim and the band Ph is dual sim running both optus and telstra (Mate). Mate costs me $10 for unlimited calls.txt and 1gig, get that because my home NBN is also mate, which is unlimited 50/20 and $59 and no contracts. Did that so would always have a connection for the band, but haven't used the mate sim this year, never needed it and found had a connection on the optus many times but not on telstra.

Where I live, Telstra people have to drive to the top of hills to get service sometimes and many places in our area and round Tas have no telstra service, but you can get optus just about everywhere.

[Cuppa]

Amaysim use optus and according to my information and experience on the road, optus now has a wider coverage than telstra and less drop outs. Been with them for over 10 years, they provide excellent service and support, have 2 Phones, one for private and one for the band. My UBports ph which is private, runs on amyasim and the band Ph is dual sim running both optus and telstra (Mate). Mate costs me $10 for unlimited calls.txt and 1gig, get that because my home NBN is also mate, which is unlimited 50/20 and $59 and no contracts. Did that so would always have a connection for the band, but haven't used the mate sim this year, never needed it and found had a connection on the optus many times but not on telstra.

Where I live, Telstra people have to drive to the top of hills to get service sometimes and many places in our area and round Tas have no telstra service, but you can get optus just about everywhere.

Have used Amaysim/Optus in the past - MrsTea had it for her work phone back before she retired. It worked well around Ballarat & was very good value. Our experience when travelling however is that we are covered far better with the Telstra network unfortunately. I think it depends upon where you travel. At our present location however most locals are on Optus because the nearest 'tower' is an Optus one & similar to what you describe our Telstra signal is variable. SOS only or 1 bar 3g at one end of the house, but a reasonably reliable 1 or 2 bars 4G at the other end of the house. We 'supplement' the signal with 'wifi calling' unless in our bedroom at the 'good' end of the house. This is the first 'sit' we have done where Optus has either existed and/or been better.Travelling remote areas as we do, we can go a long way between signals of any description, but apart from the odd exception it would generally be a lot further if relying upon Optus.

I'm sure it must be technologically possible for Telstra & Optus to share resources so that all users have the same level of access, but with privatised comms I guess the chances of that ever happening are about zero.

[El Gringo]

I'm also with Amaysim, and having a power supply contract with them - normal domestic - I get my phone service completely free with 200Gb a month.
I reckon that's the best deal ever.
Haven't been way out bush with it yet, but coverage seems pretty good so far.
Haven't been anywhere that I can't get service - even comparing to my wife's Telstra phone of exactly the same model.

Not sure if the offer is still available, but even their stand alone plan of $40 / month for 200Gb is pretty good too.

Cheers,

[T1 Terry]

Amaysim use optus and according to my information and experience on the road, optus now has a wider coverage than telstra and less drop outs. Been with them for over 10 years, they provide excellent service and support, have 2 Phones, one for private and one for the band. My UBports ph which is private, runs on amyasim and the band Ph is dual sim running both optus and telstra (Mate). Mate costs me $10 for unlimited calls.txt and 1gig, get that because my home NBN is also mate, which is unlimited 50/20 and $59 and no contracts. Did that so would always have a connection for the band, but haven't used the mate sim this year, never needed it and found had a connection on the optus many times but not on telstra.

Where I live, Telstra people have to drive to the top of hills to get service sometimes and many places in our area and round Tas have no telstra service, but you can get optus just about everywhere.

Have used Amaysim/Optus in the past - MrsTea had it for her work phone back before she retired. It worked well around Ballarat & was very good value. Our experience when travelling however is that we are covered far better with the Telstra network unfortunately. I think it depends upon where you travel. At our present location however most locals are on Optus because the nearest 'tower' is an Optus one & similar to what you describe our Telstra signal is variable. SOS only or 1 bar 3g at one end of the house, but a reasonably reliable 1 or 2 bars 4G at the other end of the house. We 'supplement' the signal with 'wifi calling' unless in our bedroom at the 'good' end of the house. This is the first 'sit' we have done where Optus has either existed and/or been better.Travelling remote areas as we do, we can go a long way between signals of any description, but apart from the odd exception it would generally be a lot further if relying upon Optus.

I'm sure it must be technologically possible for Telstra & Optus to share resources so that all users have the same level of access, but with privatised comms I guess the chances of that ever happening are about zero.

I have a dual sim phone so we could switch between sim cards if I had a Telstra/Boost sim if needed. We tried the Aldi sim and it had about as much coverage as the Optus sim, even though they claimed they switched between carriers depending of the signal strength ..... that was not what we experienced so gave the idea away.

T1 Terry

[Cuppa]

Hi Terry, now that you mention it, I recall that my phone which I bought about 7 months ago can take dual sims. However it can only take one 'physical' sim, & a second 'virtual' sim. At the time I was on a big learning curve with a new phone & the whole virtual sim thing got put in the too hard basket. There was some issue I wasn't happy about IIRC, maybe needing an ongoing subscription or something like that.

If anyone knows about such things please let me know. It's an iPhone XS & has a Boost 'physical sim' in it. If I could get an optus 'virtual sim' which could have a small amount of data/life with a long expiry date for not very much I 'd probably give it a go. At this point I have zero idea about where/how virtual sims are obtained.

EDIT: Just looked it up - Optus call it an E Sim. But you need to have a 'post paid' account to use one. Reckon I'll just stick with my Boost 'pre paid' until I forget that I've had this 'conversation' & repeat myself at some point in the future.

[T1 Terry]

Hi Terry, now that you mention it, I recall that my phone which I bought about 7 months ago can take dual sims. However it can only take one 'physical' sim, & a second 'virtual' sim. At the time I was on a big learning curve with a new phone & the whole virtual sim thing got put in the too hard basket. There was some issue I wasn't happy about IIRC, maybe needing an ongoing subscription or something like that.

If anyone knows about such things please let me know. It's an iPhone XS & has a Boost 'physical sim' in it. If I could get an optus 'virtual sim' which could have a small amount of data/life with a long expiry date for not very much I 'd probably give it a go. At this point I have zero idea about where/how virtual sims are obtained.

EDIT: Just looked it up - Optus call it an E Sim. But you need to have a 'post paid' account to use one. Reckon I'll just stick with my Boost 'pre paid' until I forget that I've had this 'conversation' & repeat myself at some point in the future.

That must be an Apple thing, my Samsung S5 has dual physical sim card slots and gives the option of which you wish to use when transmitting but receives from both cards with an icon the signifies which sim the call or message can in through.
It was hopeless with the Aldi sim but I've been told they have since changed the whole set up so .......

T1 Terry

[native pepper]

If anyone knows about such things please let me know. It's an iPhone XS & has a Boost 'physical sim' in it. If I could get an optus 'virtual sim' which could have a small amount of data/life with a long expiry date for not very much I 'd probably give it a go. At this point I have zero idea about where/how virtual sims are obtained.

Virtual sim cards, is an apple cloud feature, all it does is give you an extra ph number, it's not a physical sim but another con job to collect your data. You can get a commercial virtual sim card from a number of companies also cloud based who have charges for having an extra number and not sure if the commercial ones will work on a iP, probably not as iP are locked mostly.

You can put an optus and telstra sim card in some iPs, they produce models with 2 physical sim slots, but not sure whether you can get them in Aus and to use Dual SIMs, you need iOS 12.1 or later. Your iP has to be unlocked to be able to use 2 sims.

Both my ubports and android 10 pH have dual sim slots, my 10 has a slide out where you put sims and a 64G memory card. Have yet to use a memory card, my pH has 4G ram and 128G rom and have given up taking decent photo's and vids with the phone, get much better quality with vid cam and DSL

[T1 Terry]

My Samsung (ex Margaret's) was a Kogan purchase many moons back, that was the only way to get a dual sim even back then. My poor old S5 is still battling on yet Margaret's S7 has all sorts of issues with screen flickering etc. The latest S10 does look good, especially the hold out one to get a big screen, but a tad expensive

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Well a few days ago I got a real price shock.
We had two sims for two phones as well as another sim for 55g data in a dongle for the laptops.
All data shared across all sims.
Cost was around $65 on various plans thru Optus.
All of a sudden (after 12 months) the price went up to $105 & the data dropped to 25gig.
Today we went into the Optus shop in the Bridge to renegotiate.
Couldn't even talk without my wallet. (license & medicare card) First time I've ever gone to town without it.
Drove home & back again.
Now cancelled the data SIM & changed one sim to a diff plan.
Ended up $64 for 63g a month.
All data shared between phones.
One or both phones used as an access point (tethered) for laptop access.
We'll see how it goes but a lot cheaper!!

That is what we did when we dumped the NBN and wireless to the workshop. All off the phone now. We went into Optus Murray Bridge and they wanted big $$ for a modem that could accept an aerial and 50gig sim. The sim would share its capacity with the other 2 sims, but we don't use the 60gig we have now so 110gig ...... the other option was a $15 plan that gave us a sim and bugger all data but it would share data with the other 2 sims .... so now we need a modem that accepts an aerial and Optus sim. We are looking at this aerial https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/All-in-One- ... 0005.m1851 and this modem https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Unlocked-Ne ... SwGeBdJcPg

Any votes for or against this idea? Thinking about 2 aerials, one for home and one for the motorhome

T1 Terry