{"id":90105,"date":"1999-12-31T00:17:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/12gb-surfing-for-65\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:17:00","slug":"12gb-surfing-for-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/12gb-surfing-for-65\/","title":{"rendered":"12GB Surfing For $65?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has launched its latest bid to win back customers by offering 12GB of mobile broadband data for $65 per month.<font face=\"sans-serif\" size=\"2\">The cut price new $65 plan for a massive 12GB mobile broadband on USB stick or Pocket WiFi.&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The new price point is on top of Voda&#8217;s existing plans including $20 for 2.5GB, $30 for 4GB and $45 for 8GB.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Compare this to&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Optus&#8217; mobile broadband plan which costs $25 for 1.5GB and $65 for 10GB, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/telstra.com.au\/broadband\/mobile-broadband\/plans\/\">Telstra 1GB for $25<\/a>, 4GB for $35 and 15GB for $95, Vodafone definitely has better value.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It also claims&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">average download speeds at 30Mbps are faster than the average of five leading fixed broadband<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&nbsp;services.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Vodafone Pocket Wifi (4G) is now on offer for half price (now $84.50), on 12 and 24 month contracts until 29 April, and are&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">offering a 15% discount on its mobile broadband subscription to all current customers&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">until 2 April.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">You will also have to pay $3-$5 per month for either the USB stick or pocket WiFi modem, both of which are &#8216;Cat 4&#8217; enabled.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Pocket WiFi can be used as a portable hotspot, allowing up to ten devices to hook up to the service at once.&nbsp;A &#8216;Cat 4&#8217; device can reach theoretical download speeds up to 150Mbps.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Our customers told us that their need for data &#8211; especially for mobile broadband services &#8211; has increased since last year&#8217;s launch of our new 4G network,&#8221; said Kim Clarke, Chief Marketing Officer at Vodafone.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;We continue to expand our 4G network coverage and currently offer the fastest 4G data speeds in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and lets customers surf the web high speed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">By the end of 2014 it is expected that there will be more mobile subscriptions than the global population, according to according to telecom analyst Paul Budde.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Vodafone are also offering its Network guarantee letting&nbsp;customers cancel their service within the first 30 days.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has launched its latest bid to win back customers by offering 12GB of mobile broadband data for $65 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-internet","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>12GB Surfing For $65? 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