Optus and QFF - Phone Plans

[TheInsider]

So it looks like QFF and Optus have once again teamed up to provide points for some month to month mobile plans.

Some restrictive in what you get but the $79 monthly plan seems to be great due to it including international roaming for zone 1 countries. In some ways it's better than the Vodafone $5day charge. Although with optus it's less data at 5GB

qantas.com/optus

Edit: By saying that the links inside that webpage seem to be dead at the moment, so it must be releasing in a few days then.

 

[exceladdict]

Interesting. I'm currently on a grandfathered $49 plan with 4gb international roaming; and only the $79 plan has any roaming moving forward.

Something interesting to note, these won't be churn-friendly:

Bonus Qantas Points will be earned in installments of 5,000 points at the end of month 3, 6, 9 or 12 from your service activation date if you stay continuously connected, up to the maximum total of bonus points offered on your plan.

 

[Pushka]

Interesting. I'm currently on a grandfathered $49 plan with 4gb international roaming; and only the $79 plan has any roaming moving forward.

Something interesting to note, these won't be churn-friendly:

I'm on a newer plan and when I signed up for new phone contract I wasn't told that international roaming had been removed from my old plan. Not happy Jan.

 

[AIRwin]

I'm on a newer plan and when I signed up for new phone contract I wasn't told that international roaming had been removed from my old plan. Not happy Jan.

Which plan Jan?

 

[Pushka]

Which plan Jan?

It's a business plan they switched me to that has four mobiles. Has some advantages but we can actually change out of it now, which I might just look into now we can travel again.

 

[ChrisMars]

the $79 monthly plan seems to be great due to it including international roaming for zone 1 countries. In some ways it's better than the Vodafone $5day charge. Although with optus it's less data at 5GB

Indeed that's not bad at all. Call roaming and 5GB per month is plenty enough. Too bad there is no international call from Australia included, but this can be fixed with a 12 months boost (or competition) recharge for that, for those with dual sim phone, also giving a reliable Telstra network when in regional area.
On a 12 months duration, that's also almost 30000 points (20k + 10 * 79 * 12), which is a nice discount depending on how much one value a QFF point.

 

[dylarr]

Is anyone able to access the Critical Information Summaries for these plans? Seems like the link is broken on the QF website.

Edit: By saying that the links inside that webpage seem to be dead at the moment, so it must be releasing in a few days then.

Interesting - seems they have been pulled down after initially working. The signup links were working fine when you posted this last night but now erroring out.

 

[TheInsider]

Is anyone able to access the Critical Information Summaries for these plans? Seems like the link is broken on the QF website.



Interesting - seems they have been pulled down after initially working. The signup links were working fine when you posted this last night but now erroring out.

I don't think it's officially launched yet, maybe it was meant to be a secret link - but it's quite an obvious link...

 

[aus_flyer]

Status credits please!

 

[TheInsider]

Looks like the plans are available for purchase. Very quiet launch if it is meant to be a launch.

 

[Mattg]

Looks like the plans are available for purchase. Very quiet launch if it is meant to be a launch.

I don't believe this has officially launched yet. I would expect to see a formal announcement soon.

 

[Mattg]

...and the link now gets you a 404 error

 

[sudoer]

...and the link now gets you a 404 error

It's working for me, I can also click through to the Optus sign-up portal which seems to be live.

 

[Mattg]

It's working for me, I can also click through to the Optus sign-up portal which seems to be live.

Oh yes, it does seem to be live now and the links to the Critical Information Summaries are now working.

 

[Daver6]

Bit surprised none of the plans include talk and text to international numbers. Makes the plans rather unappealing.

 

[Mattg]

Bit surprised none of the plans include talk and text to international numbers. Makes the plans rather unappealing.

Yeah, I won't be switching because I get more with my current provider at a lower cost - calls to international numbers in particular.

 

[lahlee]

Hopefully Optus will bring back more plans with the roaming data included - I saved a lot over the years not needing to pay the $10 extra a day for add-on 'travel pack'. $10 a day adds up fast on longer trips. I was disappointed when looking into plans this year and seeing there was no roaming included in the larger plans. Thanks for sharing the info!

 

[lahlee]

On a lighter note, I notice the link to the T&C goes to a pdf that has edits from September marked up on it - always a good idea to tidy up a pdf before posting

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Hopefully Optus will bring back more plans with the roaming data included - I saved a lot over the years not needing to pay the $10 extra a day for add-on 'travel pack'. $10 a day adds up fast on longer trips. I was disappointed when looking into plans this year and seeing there was no roaming included in the larger plans. Thanks for sharing the info!

I am on the Optus One plan for $65 (50% off EOFY special) that includes 10GB of roaming data which will come in very handy during my Xmas UK trip. Of course now that international travel has started up many plans across the telcos are having their roaming benefits reduced or removed completely!

 

[exceladdict]

Yeah I'm happy with the 4gb/month on my optus $49 60GB plan. As long as I turn off auto photo cloud upload and download my spotify playlists, it gets me away from needing to buy a sim. Particularly good when visiting or transiting multiple countries.