Vodafone Red plans offer a unique way to get your phone on an interest-free contract over 12, 24 or 36 months with a month-to-month SIM plan.
What services does Vodafone Mobile offer?
Vodafone provides services for contract mobile customers on its own 3G and 4G networks which provide services across Australia.
Its Vodafone Red contract offerings include SIM-only plans on month-to-month, 12 or 24 month terms, as well as plans that include a wide range of smartphones. Depending on your choice of plan tier and device there may be repayments involved in a handset plan.
How much does Vodafone Mobile cost?
Vodafone’s base level contract pricing with a handset over 24 months ranges from $40 per month up to $130 per month. All of these contract plans include unlimited standard national calls and texts, with higher level plans upping the data quota and inclusions such as international calling minutes.
If you're looking to save money on your monthly bill, Vodafone offers discounts when bundling multiple mobile and broadband plans under a single account. Combining two or more plans can save you between 5% and 20% off the total monthly cost of your service.
What extras does Vodafone Mobile offer?
Vodafone offers an unusual level of flexibility in its contract phone inclusions, depending on whether your usage suits international calling, heavy data usage or entertainment via streaming and online media. You can mix and match certain combinations within those plans depending on whether you want international calling or additional data provisions. Selected plans also bundle in a quantity of Qantas Frequent Flyer points.
Vodafone offers its contract customers a very simple international roaming proposition; for $5 per day while roaming across a large number of countries you can access any provisions in your contract at no additional charge. Given that all its contract plans include unlimited calls and texts, that’s a lot better than many roaming deals you might otherwise consider.
What excess charges could I face on these plans?
Vodafone makes a point of bundling standard infinite national calls and texts with its contract plans, but the use of the word standard there is a bit of a clue that there are some usage types that you can incur charges for. As these are postpaid plans, any additional usage will be charged for on top of your regular monthly scheduled fee.
Within Australia, you will incur additional charges for calls or texts made to or from premium services, with charge rates as set by the premium service provider.
Vodafone sticks to the industry standard for excess data usage charges, with any use above your existing quota charged at $10 per GB. This charge applies as soon as you go over quota, even if it's only by a little, and is then levied for each additional GB of usage, or part thereof.
Many (but not all) of Vodafone's plans include international calling inclusions to selected countries in the form of calling minutes. Exhaust those, or call countries not included in Vodafone's offers, and you'll pay Vodafone's current international calling rates which can be found here.
Vodafone customers who roam internationally in 55 selected countries incur a flat $5 per day roaming charge, which covers access to your existing plan inclusions. That means that you can use your data and call inclusions for contacting Australian numbers to the extent of your plan provision for a flat $5 fee. Outside of those countries, Vodafone charges a flat $1 per minute to make or receive calls, 75c per text message sent and $1 per MB of data usage.
Vodafone customers who wish to exit their contract early will incur cancellation fees, typically charged as a flat sum multiplied by the number of months remaining on the contract, plus any outstanding handset repayment fees. This doesn't apply if you cancel within your first contract month, as long as you return the handset in good working order.
Pros
- $5 Roaming. There isn’t an easier roaming deal out there than Vodafone’s simple $5/day roaming deal for contract customers.
- Choice of extras. Vodafone's contract plans are exceptionally flexible depending on your calling, data and entertainment needs
- Network satisfaction guarantee. Vodafone will let you gracefully exit your contract if you’re not happy in the first 30 days
Cons
- Smaller network. Vodafone’s done a lot of work on improving its network, but this is most notable in metropolitan areas. In regional spaces, it’s the smallest of the three competing networks.
- No 700Mhz. Vodafone notably did not compete in the spectrum auction for 700Mhz frequencies, which means its overall 4G coverage and speeds in some areas can be limited.
I have a iPhone 6. I am a member of the State Emergances Services. So I need a fair amount of data for Emergances volunteer work. I would like to get the new. Samsung 8. Phone I am at present paying $70 a month on a 24. Month plan can u help. 0408064626. My number. I am a disabled person on a pension.
Hi Stumpy,
Thank you for your inquiry.
For your options please click this page.
1. Select this feature if you only want to change your network our do you prefer a plan with a sim only.
2. Should you be interested to a plan with a mobile phone please click this (as shown on screenshot) to choose your preferred phone.
3. I would suggest to select “all providers” to have a better view while you are comparing the prices. But if you have preferred provider you may select it here.
4. Choose your plan type.
5. Select your preferred usage monthly.
6. Click the search button to generate/view your options.
I hope this information has helped.
Cheers,
Harold