There were some non-Asian food options listed! Jamie Oliver's pricing is
not so bad.
Sydney Airport has free wifi but it's filtered. E.g Whatsap doesn't work
(probably due to ports) but you can browse webpages.
You'd probably want to do something like
https://www.optus.com.au/shop/prepaid/sim-card/2-sim - optus has shops at
the airport. So you buy the sim card for $2
Then you can buy a prepaid data plan to load data on it. The 28 day plan
for $30 gives you unlimited local calls/texts, and 3GB of data. You can pay
$5 extra for international calls but they will be limited. Since your only
there for a short period this is probably best plan.
If you buy the $40 28 day plan, and buy the $10 international call extra,
it will give you unlimited calls to Canada and 6gb of data.
You can see more info about the plans here:
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans?SID=con:premob:Prepaid:plan:et
I would recommend doing it at the airport because they are set up to handle
tourists and get them to activate it. (If you do it through the website
only I think you have to have some form of Australian id, as I had to
register my netherlands friends optus sim for her.) They may also be able
to help you with a more appropriate to you plan as the websites only doing
the popular ones.
(If you are only in the city, it doesn't matter who you go with. The big
three choices would be:
- Telstra is the biggest in Australia but it only makes a big difference
when you start going into desert like areas. We are no where near any of
those areas in question and I doubt you'd go anywhere like that due to
short nature of trip and uh, not wanting to drive on the left.
Optus is FULL OF SPITE* for telstra and very keen to be the best so they
are very close (96% of population covered IIRC) and tends to have much
better customer service in my experience than Telstra. (I sympathise a lot
with Optus as I am also FULL OF SPITE for Telstra.)
Vodafone, used to have issues in some surburban areas but has been
improving. Tends to be cheaper than the above two due to my first sentence.
Do not recommend if you are going super rural, but along the coast probably
mostly fine. In the city, no worries.)
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY TIME. as told by someone who was in primary school at
the time.
Once upon a time, Australian telecommunication industry was a monopoly,
called Telecom. Telecom was owned by the government and was awful. It has a
business devision which was not so bad and a home users division which
would take three months to set up phonelines.
Then the government said in 1993, let us make money by privatising! And we
will let competitions come in from overseas.
And originally the business devision was going to be sold to Optus (a
Singaporean company); and the home devision was going to become it's own
private Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi, company, called Telstra.
This would mean that we had competition! Optus would have a slight
advantage in the business market, and Telstra would have a slight advantage
in the home market and both would have to work if they wanted to be king.
Except then the labour went back and decided to give the business devision
to Telstra for free. Meaning that Optus was like 15 years behind on
infrastructure. Also Telstra who were supposed to be a carrier that other
resellers can use as part of this practically monopoly stuff were dicks.
P.S the business devision people structure that was apparently ok had to
get incorporated into the home devision structure and was fucked up as a
result!
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Date: 2017-03-01 05:06 am (UTC)There were some non-Asian food options listed! Jamie Oliver's pricing is not so bad.
Sydney Airport has free wifi but it's filtered. E.g Whatsap doesn't work (probably due to ports) but you can browse webpages.
You'd probably want to do something like https://www.optus.com.au/shop/prepaid/sim-card/2-sim - optus has shops at the airport. So you buy the sim card for $2
Then you can buy a prepaid data plan to load data on it. The 28 day plan for $30 gives you unlimited local calls/texts, and 3GB of data. You can pay $5 extra for international calls but they will be limited. Since your only there for a short period this is probably best plan.
If you buy the $40 28 day plan, and buy the $10 international call extra, it will give you unlimited calls to Canada and 6gb of data.
You can see more info about the plans here: http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans?SID=con:premob:Prepaid:plan:et
I would recommend doing it at the airport because they are set up to handle tourists and get them to activate it. (If you do it through the website only I think you have to have some form of Australian id, as I had to register my netherlands friends optus sim for her.) They may also be able to help you with a more appropriate to you plan as the websites only doing the popular ones.
(If you are only in the city, it doesn't matter who you go with. The big three choices would be: - Telstra is the biggest in Australia but it only makes a big difference when you start going into desert like areas. We are no where near any of those areas in question and I doubt you'd go anywhere like that due to short nature of trip and uh, not wanting to drive on the left.
Optus is FULL OF SPITE* for telstra and very keen to be the best so they are very close (96% of population covered IIRC) and tends to have much better customer service in my experience than Telstra. (I sympathise a lot with Optus as I am also FULL OF SPITE for Telstra.)
Vodafone, used to have issues in some surburban areas but has been improving. Tends to be cheaper than the above two due to my first sentence. Do not recommend if you are going super rural, but along the coast probably mostly fine. In the city, no worries.)
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY TIME. as told by someone who was in primary school at the time.
Once upon a time, Australian telecommunication industry was a monopoly, called Telecom. Telecom was owned by the government and was awful. It has a business devision which was not so bad and a home users division which would take three months to set up phonelines.
Then the government said in 1993, let us make money by privatising! And we will let competitions come in from overseas.
And originally the business devision was going to be sold to Optus (a Singaporean company); and the home devision was going to become it's own private Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi, company, called Telstra.
This would mean that we had competition! Optus would have a slight advantage in the business market, and Telstra would have a slight advantage in the home market and both would have to work if they wanted to be king.
Except then the labour went back and decided to give the business devision to Telstra for free. Meaning that Optus was like 15 years behind on infrastructure. Also Telstra who were supposed to be a carrier that other resellers can use as part of this practically monopoly stuff were dicks.
P.S the business devision people structure that was apparently ok had to get incorporated into the home devision structure and was fucked up as a result!