Spintel drops SIM-only prices, creates compelling Unlimited plan

Spintel today drops prices across its flexible SIM-only plan options, making the more expensive inclusions cheaper and creating a compelling ‘Unlimited’ plan in the process.

Customers with Spintel build their own plans by choosing inclusion values for calls, SMS and data separately; with Small, Medium, Large and X-Large pricing buckets. The price drops apply to all buckets except the Small option.

With the new pricing in place, customers can choose unlimited calls, messages and 2.5GB of 4G data for $36 per month, with service on the Optus 4G network. This is a massive 20-percent price drop from the $45 it used to cost Spintel customers to get exactly the same inclusions.

If 2.5GB data isn’t enough, Spintel will automatically add 1GB for $10 when you reach your plan limits.

How this compares

As a happy coincidence, the Spintel price drops have been announced on the same day competitor Amaysim flags a price increase for its popular Unlimited plan. Amaysim nows offers more 3G data, but is also more expensive per month.

So too is Yatango, the only other telco to use a similar ‘create your own plan’ product model. For unlimited talk and text, plus 2GB data, Yatango customers pay $49 per month.

The closest competitors now on price, are Aldi mobile for $35 per month (with 1250-minutes, unlimited SMS and 1GB data) and Lebara Mobile at $29.90 per month (for unlimited calls and message and 2GB data) — but neither offers the same 4G network speeds.

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