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Data rollover (up to 200GB) Day rollover (up to 84 days) Unlimited standard national talk and text Unlimited standard international calls to 15 countries $10 of extras credit. $5 Optus Sport add-on
All in all, Optus plans have some great features. The three big telcos tend to cop the most flak online when it comes to user reviews, and this is true of Optus. If you look at either the 3,000+ reviews on Product Review or the 600+ reviews on Trustpilot, you’ll see an overwhelming majority of one-star reviews. According to the amalgamation of these scores and in comparison to the other providers that are part of our internal tracking system, Optus has the lowest average reported customer review scores out of all tracked telcos. Here are a few of the most popular Optus mobile phone plans. Here are a few of the most popular iPhone plans with Optus. First, the most popular iPhone 13 128GB plans. At the time of writing, the most popular Samsung handset through Optus is the Galaxy S21 5G 128GB. Need more data for less? You can remove international and roaming inclusions to max out your data while paying a little less. Same goes if you’re a keen traveller but you don’t use too much data. Simply drop the amount of included data per month and increase your international and roaming inclusions to balance out your monthly bill. Simple in concept, a little confusing to compare. Adding a handset to any of these plans just complicates things even further. Of course, this doesn’t mean you can get Optus coverage in 98.5% of Australia. Like the Telstra and Vodafone networks, Optus coverage is like a dense ring around the coastline, with tendrils of signal stretching inland. Most people should find that they can comfortably use an Optus service wherever they live and work. Opensignal, a company that analyses mobile network performance through apps people install on their phones, claims that Optus customers can get a 4G signal more often than people using either Telstra or Vodafone. In the same report, Telstra is shown to have the fastest average download speeds, with Optus in second place and Vodafone in third. This is interesting data to take a look at, but ultimately your experience will depend on where you use your phone. You can take a look at the coverage map below as a guide to whether there is an Optus signal around you, but you should still find a way to test the network before you sign a contract, like buying an Optus Prepaid SIM card and using it in your phone for a few days. It’s always worth pointing out that it’s still early days for Australian 5G, so don’t expect too much (and be sure to check your address in the coverage map above) but we’ve been fairly impressed with what we have experienced with Optus 5G so far. We’ve managed to get roughly 300Mbps down on average with Optus 5G in the North Sydney area (outdoors, of course). That barely touches what 5G is actually capable of, but it’s still faster than most NBN connections. With that said, indoors coverage for Optus 5G has been almost non-existent in our tests. We know that 5G is weaker indoors but our own experiences aren’t indicative of what every customer should expect. If you’re close enough to a 5G site, with a clear line of sight to the tower, it’s possible you’ll get better indoor Optus 5G coverage than we’ve managed.
