365 day prepaid mobile plans

amaysim is the biggest mobile provider outside of the major networks, so it's no surprise that its plans are pretty well priced with decent data chunks.

If you sign up before January 31, you'll get this plan for $145 instead of $200. Just remember that this price is for your first year on the plan only. If you want to keep it afterwards, you'll need to go back to paying the original price of $200 for a year.

Kogan's another name known for its shopping deals, but it also does some great offers on long expiry plans too. If you're a data-hungry user, check out its massive 500GB mobile plan. If you sign up before March 31, you'll pay $285 for the full year instead of $355.

On its Flex plan, you won't get any monthly restrictions on your data usage, but if you spread it out evenly, you'll get over 40GB to use every month for under $24 a month.

Catch also has a great deal on for its lower data 365 day plan. If you don't need a bunch of data over the course of a year, Catch has lowered the price of its 60GB plan to $89. That means you'll get about 5GB to use each month for just over $7 a month. That's a pretty good bargain to kick off 2021.

Again, this is a promotional price for new customers only. After your first year on the plan, the price will revert to its original price of $120 per 365 days.

If you don't want to commit to a year long plan, a 180 day prepaid mobile plan can still help you save. Lebara's plan will last you about 6 months, and only cost you $30 a month.

You'll also get data banking on this plan, which means if you choose to renew it for the last 6 months of the year, any unused data from your first 6 months will be passed onto the next period.

You might get your groceries from Woolies, but did you know they do mobile plans too? If you don't need a lot of data, check out its 12GB plan which lasts for half a year.

It runs on the Telstra network, and as an added bonus, you also get 10% off your grocery bills once a month if you're a Woolworths Mobile customer. Not a bad way to save in more than one area of your life.

There aren't a lot of plans on the Telstra network with long expiry periods, so Boost Mobile's 12 month plan stands out thanks to its high data limit. Until February 1, you'll get a bonus 60GB of data on top of the usual 240GB on this plan, giving you a total of 300 to use over 12 months .

Boost also runs on the full Telstra 4G network, so you'll be getting the same coverage as you would on one of Telstra's own plans.

There seems to be a lot of shopping brands when it comes to long expiry plans out there, and ALDI is another one of them with great value plans. If you're not someone who uses your phone a lot, you could get away with a lower data plan for the year.

ALDI's 15GB 365 day plan gives you just over 1GB to use each month, so you'd only really want to use it to check emails or browse the web a bit while you're out.

Catch's 120GB plan was actually our long-standing monthly winner for the best 365 day plan in 2020. But thanks to amaysim's price promotion, they've taken a step off the throne this month. This doesn't mean it's not still worth a look though. Catch's plan is still a great option if you're looking for a long expiry plan on the Optus network, with a 1:1 ratio when it comes to data and price.

This plan is currently $120 for a year instead of $150 for new customers only.

If you're not a frequent phone user, Optus has quite a few options to choose from. Its Daily Plus plan works a little differently. You'll get $30 of credit on this plan, and get charged $2 each day you use it. With that $2, you get 500MB to use (which isn't a lot, so we wouldn't recommend anything download heavy) and unlimited calls and texts for the day.

This $2 comes out of your original $30 credit. If you go a day without using your phone, you won't get charged anything for that day.

Rather than go with the same Kogan plan we picked earlier, we chose Kogan's Medium plan for this category since it's aimed at regular mobile users, but not necessarily those that need 500GB a month. This one isn't a Flex plan, which means even though you get 180GB to use over the year, it limits you to use 15GB a month so you don't use all your data at once.

Sign up before March 31 and this plan is yours for $180 instead of its usual price of $205.60.

Kogan has somewhat of a monopoly when it comes to long expiry plans on the Vodafone network, since a lot of Vodafone's own plans are PAYG plans with no data. If you don't need a huge chunk of data, consider Kogan's Small 90 day plan. You essentially get 3GB to use each month for just over $15 a month.

Since it lasts for 90 days instead of a longer 180 or 365 days, if you find you're struggling data-wise, you can switch to a bigger plan after 3 months.

PAYG plans work a little differently to your usual mobile plan. Instead of the normal unlimited calls and texts you might be used to, you only get to use however much you've paid for. While this isn't great for regular mobile users, those who don't use their mobiles often should be fairly happy with this deal.

We picked Vodafone's $40 PAYG plan here, but they also offer $30 and $50 options depending on how much you want to pay upfront. The cost for each call or text you make will come out from the $40 you've paid for the plan.