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Originally posted by Th3rmal
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Originally posted by Eddie
If your looking for data plans with phones th3rmal, head towards Three Mobile, seem to be the best option, but dunno if they work with the phone you want -shrug-
yea my carrier is going to be 3. I checked and for about $8 a month i can get about 100mb of usage, or for $12 a month i can get 200mb, but im already at the limit of how-much-im-going-to-spend-on-this-phone so going to see if i can include the data plan on my cap 
Also, not sure if your aware (I'm only letting you know as I'm on 3 myself) at the moment you only get Metro area coverage. However, from what I know and have heard, 3 and Telstra have a deal for 3 customers to use the Next G network outside of the Metro area from about mid way through this year (of course depending on many other things). This will boost 3's coverage to about 95% of Australia coverage. Thus allowing customers to use 3G features in most parts of Australia.
However the catch from what I hear is, to get all 3G coverage (Telstra and 3 mobile) you have to have a phone that can use the NextG Frequency of 850Mhz and the 2100Mhz frequency used by 3. Otherwise you'll just head back to Telstra's 2G network which is how it is now.
Also the X-Series plans, 2 of which you have briefly mentioned, include some good stuff as well like 4000 mins of Skype to Skype Calls and on the $12 (which is what I'm on for X-Series) you get things like Messenger (Both Windows Live and Yahoo) and extra little bonuses as well.
Hope this is helpful in some way
More info:
http://business.theage.com.au/business/next-g-roa...20080819-3y9v.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/3...1,339291353,00.htm
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