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Has anyone moved from Telstra Mobile to Aldi? Aldi uses the Telstra network, but I've read it's only their old equipment. Is the service acceptable?
I'm about to get the kid a phone for Christmas, and look like finally merging our phone service onto a family plan. The Aldi family plan with four sims is actually cheaper than what my wife and I are presently paying for Telstra/Optus. We've never merged our phone plans.
I'm tempted to get him the most basic Aldi plan. Hoping to teach him the importance of budgetting data - but even their $19 plan comes with 10 GB. I was getting by with 2 GB less than a decade ago.
Before I do anything drastic, will I regret this move?
Here's everything you'd ever need to know about Telstra's MVNOs.
If you want to go hard-mode on budgeting data lessons, Boost's 12 month $230 plan gives the equivalent of 14GB for $20 per month - aka 170GB but gives you all of it up front, and it uses Telstra's full network rather than their wholesale network which Aldi, etc use.
I haven't used Telstra's wholesale network but if you're not going anywhere very remote I suspect it'll do just fine. You can see the coverage map and differences on the first link. I moved from Telstra to Boost and it's literally the same service, just cheaper.
One thing it doesn't mention is 5G which just looking at Aldi's website, ~~requires a special expensive plan to access~~ scratch that, but it still requires a higher plan than their 2 cheapest ones. Boost gives 5G no problemo.
Ha! This would be enough for me! And I am not careful any longer with data usage. I might go over 14GB some months, but I'd be under 10GB others.
It's also a third of what I'm presently paying Telstra. I really should have looked at this stuff at some earlier point.
I felt the exact same way when I switched lol
I just went to that 12 month plan 3 weeks ago. I looked at my data use each month and I'm WAY under because I'm always on WiFi so if I do go away for a holiday or something I'm free to hotspot without fear.
November had one weekend where I was hotspotting and streaming video for hours.
Monitoring and managing a monthly data allowance might let the kid develop responsibility in their life. If they manage it well, maybe they can be trusted with more things? I gave my dad a 40gb sim and he watched youtube for two days on high rez then complained that the internet had stopped.
We are on the family plan, coverage is good, never had any issues that I needed to contact them for. We have a LOT of rollover data now but I did have the kids restricted to a certain amount of data at the start.