I have been a VF customer for over 6 years now but I think 2Degrees now have a more compelling offering for me.

By way of background I am on a Choose 20 plan now with one BM and 100MB data. This provides for 20 anytime/any network minutes, 200 VF minutes, and 1000 VF texts and data.

This has worked quite well for me since my BM is my wife who calls me a fair bit (calls and hangs up!), my kids are all on VF (well my daughter has two phones so she texts from 022 and I text her back on 021!) and most of my business associates are on VF. So the $51/month for the plan plus extras works fine.

But just got my last bill and was rather annoyed to see a $25 charge for a 30 minute call to a business partner's 021 phone but it was a ported Telecom number! Maybe I should have checked first before calling but who does that?

Now 2D have a  an attactive on account plan.  $39 gives you 120 anytime/any network calls, sign up now and get an additional 100 minutes and the minutes carry over to the next month plus add $20 to get 1GB of data. The only slight wrinkle is, the data is only in the main centres where they have a data network, else if you stray out of that area and presumably have to roam on VF, then you have to buy 50MB blocks for $6.

So this plan is $59/month. I looked at my last few bills and my BM calls average 50-60 minutes/month. On 2D those calls would count against my total allocation but checking the past few bills my BM calls plus other calls have rarely exceeded 220 minutes/month so I would unlikely to exceed the free minutes. Plus of course with the carry over from the last month, that just adds more headroom. Finally with 1GB of data, if I choose I can always do VoIP calls I guess.

The porting process seems painless and if it doesn't work out I can always switch back.

Anybody see any flaws in this plan?