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What is a Minimum Total Cost ? (MTC)

In this article, we explain what a ‘Minimum Total Cost’ (MTC) means to you. Overview – Minimum Total Cost – What Is It ? Minimum Total Costs are a regulatory requirement the phone companies have to provide you. They have the following charachteristics. SIM Only and Prepaid plans which do not have multiple month Continue reading…

Does Australia Really Need 3 Phone Networks?

In many countries with high populations in relation to land area, such as many European countries, the cost of installing telecommunications per head of population is far less than a country like Australia which has only 24 million people covering a huge land area. The concentration of people is mainly around the coast, but Continue reading…

The Telstra & Vodafone 4G Networks Are About The Same ?!

CommsDay, Australia’s telecommunications daily journal and international renowned leader in P3 mobile benchmarking communications testing, has just released in its 2016 edition the results of the P3 CommsDay Mobile Benchmark. This is a mobile network test that is conducted annually in Australia and globally. The winning prize for this year by a small margin Continue reading…

Data Price Deflation – Why data just keeps getting cheaper

60 second intro What is ‘data price deflation’ ? One way of describing a consistent, general decrease in the cost of data is ‘data price deflation’. The price of data falls regularly, substantially and always in the favour of users in Australian Prepaid and SIM only plans that are available. One way of describing Continue reading…