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#3193106 10-Feb-2024 08:57

^ interesting site but I'd want to know which provider the MVNOs are wholesaling from. No point signing up with Nova (for example) if they wholesale Spark and I can't get a Spark signal at my place.

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#3193108 10-Feb-2024 09:26

Nova uses the 2 degrees network. Kogan, rocket mobile, and mighty mobile uses the vodafone network. Surely it's not in the to hard basket to seek this info from the MVNO's concerned.

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#3193256 10-Feb-2024 14:22

myfullflavour: We (at Full Flavour) are doing 30GB for $40 so this price increase makes little sense to me.

This is very enticing. Are there any limitations?
Do MNVO’s have access to full bandwidth that One Customer's do?
Are you able to turn things off at the account level, such as global roaming?

I assume no restrictions on signing customers outside of the TGA/BOP area?

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#3193258 10-Feb-2024 14:37

ajw:

The two fingered salute to the incumbents always works and there are far cheaper options if you shop around namely rocket mobile, kogan mobile, mighty mobile etc..

https://www.mobilecompare.co.nz/

The compare group are dodgy as hell. They’ll steer you towards providers that give them the most kickback and often this ends up costing you more. They’re basically full on advertising sites. One of the co-owners was also spamming the compare sites around on Facebook pages pretending to be a customer who have saved a whole lot of money and when called out that he’s a co-owner he’ll just block those people hoping he can get away with it for a bit longer.

These comparison sites may be OK in this case but always compare yourself as you can often get a better deal if you do. This is especially true with their insurance, power and broadband sites.

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#3195038 14-Feb-2024 13:00

Same here. Started on $40 plan (from memory) with 4GB that was ample for my needs. Price got bumped to $45 with 6GB and I stayed put, but now have close to 60GB of carryover data stacked up. Another price increase that is "justified" by giving me more data that I don't use is ridiculous. That looks comical when for $45 on 2D prepay they will do 8GB of data with everything else the same - that values the extra data at $2.50/GB.

If anyone from 2Degrees is reading here, how about mooting to your powers that be that keeping the current 6GB plan and dropping the price to $40 would be a winner - based on the price difference to prepay that's a consistent charge for the plan.

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#3195073 14-Feb-2024 14:43

EMB:

Same here. Started on $40 plan (from memory) with 4GB that was ample for my needs. Price got bumped to $45 with 6GB and I stayed put, but now have close to 60GB of carryover data stacked up. Another price increase that is "justified" by giving me more data that I don't use is ridiculous. That looks comical when for $45 on 2D prepay they will do 8GB of data with everything else the same - that values the extra data at $2.50/GB.

If anyone from 2Degrees is reading here, how about mooting to your powers that be that keeping the current 6GB plan and dropping the price to $40 would be a winner - based on the price difference to prepay that's a consistent charge for the plan.

I note on the Kogan mobile website you can get 4GIG of data for $25 and that is on the 30 day plan.

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#3195153 14-Feb-2024 16:46

Bit of an update rang 2degrees over the weekend to close my account, they have offered me a trail of the plan at 10% discount for 3 months so $40. I have taken the trail as my broadband plan comes up in April as well so will look at hopefully getting the same deal as new customers or will move everything over to a new provider

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#3195355 15-Feb-2024 08:03

John just noticed and posted on X that when he logged into his mobile account he got a screen saying he can share data for $5 for each sim.

So it looks like this is a change of what they tried last year with shared data only to active sims with $$ on them.

Expect an email about it soon I guess.

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#3195356 15-Feb-2024 08:05

Just logged into my account and also seeing the banner. They are calling them “sidekick plan”

It could also be one of the last steps for wearables as well.

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#3195360 15-Feb-2024 08:16

The plan is now live. It is data sharing for tablets and laptops. So it’s going from free to paid by the looks of it.

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#3195363 15-Feb-2024 08:22

tripp: The plan is now live. It is data sharing for tablets and laptops. So it’s going from free to paid by the looks of it.

Huh, haven't encountered that yet. I'm not paying $5 a month for sharing data to an iPad that I barely use, so looks like I am losing the LTE functionality. Not impressed with the value provided for the latest rounds of price hikes. I'm not getting much more value than I used to get at the old $30 tier, and after two bumps it's $40

I'm probably going to drop down to the $10 prepay plan for my personal line, and rely on work sim (iPhone dual sim) for everything but calls from family or public services.

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#3195364 15-Feb-2024 08:25

Yes once I get the “email” saying the price is getting added (unless they grandfather current accounts) I will be moving to another telco and ending my relationship with 2d . I have 4 shares (car dashcam, iPad, friend, travel 4g router). That will add $20 to my monthly fee.

At that price I might as well just change telco and use the iPhone as a hot spot of the car and iPad.

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#3195365 15-Feb-2024 08:26

CruciasNZ:

tripp: The plan is now live. It is data sharing for tablets and laptops. So it’s going from free to paid by the looks of it.

Huh, haven't encountered that yet. I'm not paying $5 a month for sharing data to an iPad that I barely use, so looks like I am losing the LTE functionality. Not impressed with the value provided for the latest rounds of price hikes. I'm not getting much more value than I used to get at the old $30 tier, and after two bumps it's $40

I'm probably going to drop down to the $10 prepay plan for my personal line, and rely on work sim (iPhone dual sim) for everything but calls from family or public services.

It just went live this morning, the account option was only added at 8.10am before that it was just to the standard monthly plans.

How I expect it to play out, we get an email saying they are going to charge moving forward but we will get the first couple of months free before they start charging us.

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#3196080 16-Feb-2024 08:39

Wow $5 to hot spot what a joke,

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#3196123 16-Feb-2024 10:43

Stu1: Wow $5 to hot spot what a joke,

It doesn't sound like this is hotspotting? It's "you get an extra sim card you put into another data/LTE device and it uses your existing data"? Tho at this point just hotspot off your phone instead and save the $5

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