I'm going to be visiting Australia from the USA in a week so for a
holiday lasting around 4 weeks. I'm planning to bring my unlocked GSM
phone with me, and get a local prepaid service.
Right now I'm looking at Telstra's prepaid service, and was curious

Went for a wander around Brisbane CBD today and noticed a new Strathfield
store on Adelaide Street, just down from JB HiFi. If anyone is interested,
they have:
Sony Ericsson T105 handsets with a Voda red sim ($30 calls) for $49 (no SIM

have two optus numbers, both of which had voicemail or any other kind of
divert service disabled...
but since about 1 month ago, when they are off or unanswered etc, they
divert to voicemail ("hello. you can make a selection from one of the

Well, it's not hard to see why they didn't update the page for months.
Two new base stations in all this time.  So much for one new base station
every day.
http://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/WOCA/menuitem ...

Dunno if it's been mentioned in here before (can't remember it), but I
stumbled across a pretty decent Australian Mobile site the other day:
http://www.ausmobile.com/
Lots of info, news section on the front page and (currently pretty

Cannot find it on the Sagem website, except for the cover

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=3162
'bout time....

Seems as though Vodafone's $49 cap may not be available on post-paid
accounts ('unlimited monthly').  Can anyone clarify?
http://www.vodafone.com.au/rep/redSim.jsp?gs=foryou&hd=mobiles&st=promo280803

But what a shame this shinybum gets a $2M golden handshake. The goose should
be thrown overboard into Hong Kong harbor, the same as what he did to
Telstra's shareholder funds.

Not all of the details are on Virgin Mobile's website yet (lunch
1/12/04), but the word is:
- post-paid only
- minimum $45 spend per month

Can you divert certain call types (eg: out of range, switched off) to
159 without enabling it for *all* calls (eg: no answer)?
Thanks.
Leigh

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/28/1101577353643.html
Given that Telstra and others are talking about spending big $$ on 3G,
presumably so they can rip even more money off us for more useless
services, anyone care to speculate about how many years before GSM