Hi. My brother and sister in law arrive shortly, consequently we all want to be on the same network, (we being, me, wife, bro and sis in law) and hopefully all have a monthly plan that allows us cheap or free calls/texts between the four of us. Does such a plan exist, do any of you have such a plan that you can recommend. Any advice more than welcome.

Thanks

Hi Were on 3 and can talk to each other for 300 mins a month. We pay $49 a month and get $350.00 call credit + 300 mins 3 to 3 each.

Hope this helps

That sounds like a pretty good deal to be honest, thanks for that. Anymore for anymore ?

We have landline and 3 mobiles with Telstra, so are eligible for their Rewards scheme. We chose the free family calls, $15 per month for calls and texts between all 4 phones, only went over that amount once, but if you have another service eg Foxtel you would get $25 worth of calls/texts. Also each mobile has 50 free texts per month which we got when signing up. My phone bill is $90 - $100 per month all up. We don't usually use up all the free texts or call credit. Also the mobile phone numbers are consecutive - you don't have to have the number that comes with the SIM card - they can bring up a list of all available numbers on the computer.

Thanks for that Jacqui, that sounds good also

Hi we as a family of 4 all have pay as you go Virgin phones and get free txts at all times to Virgin phones all for just topping up with $50 so as kids only txt and there mates are on same costs nothing.Calls to virgin phones 5c per min.Did not see the point in contract .

All good news mate – too many deals here. You would be surprised. Start with prepaid for the first month and just look around. You will know what suits best for your needs.

3,Optus,Voda etc all good…….

We are on the Virgin free to V cap which allows free unlimited calls and text to other virgin mobiles. Our cap is currently $30 a month which gives us $140 worth of non virgin calls but they do lower and higher caps too.

We are also on the Virgin free2v prepay thing, for $29 you get free calls and texts to others on virgin and credit can last upto 60 days.
Have spent ages recently looking at best prepay deals and if a few of you are all using the same network then this is probably the best one around

Thanks to everyone for your input.

The problem I always had with Virgin (My last contract was with Virgin) the reception was very poor, I could literally only talk in one room of the house, as I couldnt get reception in any other rooms I would be more than happy to use them, if I could overcome that major problem. Am currently with Vodafone, where I dont have that problem.

Home loan is a contractual EMI .....

We are on this cap too and the other good thing is that when my hubby goes to the UK on business, I can ring his Oz 3 phone using my free minutes and it does not cost him to receive the call

I find this thread very interesting as someone looking to come out to Oz. Can anyone tell me does it cost more than the normal txt rate to send txts to the UK? Also sms picture messages?????

I'm with Virgin and have no problem with reception. Daughters are now with Optus Boost and to send a text they have to run up the drive

Generally yes, both SMS and MMS cost more to international. As an example look at this.

http://www.three.com.au/cs/ContentSe...48347682&Nav=0

Now, I know that higher you go in the cap (this is 29$) cap - the charges might come down...(same rates on 29 and 49$ cap when I do a quick check however this is 3 network - other networks might have different plans/offers)

This thing is - its competitive and you can shop around and get better things suited to your needs.....
Hope that helps...