Optus new $50 SIM only with roaming

[SYD]

Amaysim is Optus's budget brand, so they probably don't want to compete with Optus' other plans.

Yes, that’s probably right. Not that I would worry about $5 roaming - other than mainland China.

AGL doesn't have this restriction.

I don’t recall seeing other MVNOs on the Optus network offering $5 pd roaming. Not that I’ve researched recently. Quite happy with this:

Amaysim’s roaming packs are far better value.

with eSIMs for data.

If they changed to the daily charge I would change providers. It’s the reason I left Optus.

Ditto!

 

[MattA]

The $5 daily roaming is only a reasonable deal for people who spend very short time overseas, or maybe if you need to use a very large amount of data each day.

Amaysim’s roaming packs are far better value. If they changed to the daily charge I would change providers. It’s the reason I left Optus.

Yep. Agree on this. I eventually landed on an Amaysim 365 pack after we lost the $50 Optus plan and found the $70 annual roaming pack has been plenty for multiple overseas trips—you’d burn through $70 in two weeks at $5/day. I know you could do it even cheaper with eSIMs but like the convenience of having everything just work on the same number. (Plus my dodgy phone battery dies even quicker if I have two active SIMs turned on).

Including the cost of the pack I’m paying under $200/year total for AU and OS use — can’t believe I used to pay Optus $50/month, actually. Feel like they kind of shot themselves in the foot by cancelling this plan as I probably wouldn’t have shopped around if they hadn’t got rid of it.