Woolworth mobile phone plans - worth a look, I suggest

Mike Harding · Guru

Woolworth mobile phone plans - worth a look, I suggest

Clarky 1 · Senior Member

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the info.

Do they give you a member card or something similar so that you may present it at any checkout or do you need to shop at the one outlet that supplied your Sim to get the discount?

Mike Harding · Guru

Hi Stu

You need to be in their "Everyday Rewards" scheme:

Everyday Rewards

Sign up for this first then sign up for the mobile plan and ensure you link the Everyday Rewards thing to your mobile plan - there is an option to do this when you do the mobile sign up.

Then there is a 45 day (or something?) wait before the 10% becomes active - it's all a bit confusing - Whirlpool has good info if you *really* wish :)

So far so good for me and the phone number port took only an astonishing 10 minutes!

I think they send a card with barcode to you or, as I did, you may download the barcode and print it yourself - this is what you scan at the Woolworth check-out.

Edit:

Removed confusing humour.

-- Edited by Mike Harding on Monday 18th of April 2022 03:48:58 PM

Dicko1 · Senior Member

You get a card. You also get 10% if you have Woolworths insurance.

Clarky 1 · Senior Member

Hey thanks Mike,

My wife tells me we have a Woolies Reward card.
We have just renewed our Boost for thie next 4 weeks so we will give them a go when the renewal is due.
I will keep one of our phones on Boost in case we get caught out with the Wholesale v Retail fiasco or maybe do the two phones and do two shopping sprees in our separate names.
We probably dont buy enough from Woolies to justify shopping twice.

Anyway I was thinking out loud.

Thank you for the heads up.

Bicyclecamper · Guru

Also their Insurance is quite a bit cheaper, found that ourselves this year.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Most monthly pre pays are actually 28 days, so basically 13 "months" per year.

We are with Boost $150pa pre pay, not sure if it is still available when we renew. So might need to switch.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

We don't generally shop Woolworths because they are the largest promoter of poker machines in low socio-economic areas.
Cheers,
Peter

Cupie · Guru

Whenarewethere wrote:
Most monthly pre pays are actually 28 days, so basically 13 "months" per year.

We are with Boost $150pa pre pay, not sure if it is still available when we renew. So might need to switch.

If you opt to auto recharge then the $150 - 80 Gig deal continues, otherwise you will have to migrate to the $200 - 100 gig plan. I think.

-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 18th of April 2022 11:59:43 PM

Whenarewethere · Guru

Thank you. That is what I was hoping. We are both due soon, same day. The same thing happened last year & are hoping that it will continue for the existing customers on $150pa pre pay.

P.S. We both mostly use Kiwi Browser. For some things like filling out forms it has issues so we use the mainstream browsers. But in Kiwi 'Lite mode' we save about 50% data. We have never really noticed any slower performance.

P.P.S. Sometimes I use hotspot from other half's phone as she is using less data than me. Not often, but just to maintain a data safety margin so I don't run out before renewal.

P.P.P.S. Kiwi gets rid of a lot of the ads.

Rob Driver · Guru

That sounds like a good deal Mike H.

We are on Boost and with our pre paid account you may opt to have an auto payment taken from your bank which with ours, happens monthly or you may pay by card PayPal etc every 28 days which is 13 payments per annum.

We remain on the 28 day payment as it gives us the flexibility to opt out and back in when we want to.
It is a rare that Optus can be better than Telstra through Boost, but in some areas Optus in fact, provide a better service. By paying every 28 days we are never actually locked in.

Before the experts start bleating about cost we do realise that some yearly plans are better value if you take into account the number of Gigs you may access, however with our 28 day terms we can rollover the unused portion of the data we DONT use each period and that can amount to a good amount for downloading extra movies, watching UTube or whatever else may take our fancy.

We currently take the $20 deal but if we were to consider getting up to $50 back from Woollies we would have to calculate what the free roll over data is worth considering that the roll over probably wont apply if we went to Woolies.

Wouldnt it be good just to have a Telco deal where we could actually just take the plan we want off a comparative list rather than do a deal with a circus juggler.

Phlipper · Senior Member

Been using Moose mobile for over 5 yrs now, couldn't be happier. Very easy hook up, cheap, and reliable, zero problems. Piggybacks on the Optus service, and only a few places does it's signal fail. Won 2 Canstar Awards in 2021, 100% Aussie owned. moosemobile.com.au/

-- Edited by Phlipper on Tuesday 19th of April 2022 08:35:41 AM

Cupie · Guru

Phlipper wrote:
Been using Moose mobile for over 5 yrs now, couldn't be happier. Very easy hook up, cheap, and reliable, zero problems. Piggybacks on the Optus service, and only a few places does it's signal fail. Won 2 Canstar Awards in 2021, 100% Aussie owned. moosemobile.com.au/

-- Edited by Phlipper on Tuesday 19th of April 2022 08:35:41 AM

I suppose its also about how much data you want (along with reliable coverage, speed, compatibility & cost)

The Moose plans seem rather dear - circa $537 for 840G over 12mths, while Boost offers 140G for $200 for 12m - no rollover.

In our case with only occasional travel in the van, we only use a fraction of our Boost data as our mobiles use our unlimited NBN data via WiFi when at home.

edit The Aussie owned argument looses some validity as Optus is not Aussie owned even though Moose maybe. Perhaps the other way round with Boost & Telstra.

In any case I think that there is no single right choice. If I was really anal about having the best / most consistent availability I would choose one Boost/Telstra & one Moose/Optus SIM.

-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 19th of April 2022 09:11:54 AM

Whenarewethere · Guru

We went from 3 land lines, to plan, to monthly prepay, to annual prepay. We were a bit sad giving up our really nice landline numbers, but we like the reduced costs these days... which make up for other increasing expenses.

Whenarewethere · Guru

We don't steam, combined on 2 x 80GB = 2 x $150 pre pay in total using about 120GB pa.

Other half likes the included unlimited calls overseas.

Rob Driver · Guru

Hahaha this topic is going down the same track as so many other Telco topics.

Mikes post was to give us a chance to consider a deal.
So many will claim that what they use own or support personally is the best. It is just human nature.

My post above was not to encourage others to change but to point out that the way you pay may influence you ability to opt out of your current service and take on a Woollies or similar, deal.

As a side note which was of some interest to Angie and I when we were changing to Boost.

This forum had a couple of members who head butted each other on a regular basis over the Telstra V Boost argument.
One member was a bolted on long participating member and the other appeared to be a relative newbie.
The bolted on member had the support of the majority and the newbie was basically on his own
The newbie spruked the advantages of Boost and the bolted on criticised every point he made.
This went on over many months with every topic raised resulting in an argument.
Eventually the newbie left the forum (I think) as Angie tried to contact him re Boost and could nor do so.
Apparently the bolted on member and staunch Telstra Service supporter passed away. So that debate ended.
I wonder if bolted on now realises that his argument was unecessary as so many members on here have proven that Boost Telstra retail is the same service as the raw Telstra.
Maybe someone can tell him if they catch up with him that even the Royal Telephone uses Boost to save the office a few dollars a month.

Apology to Mike Harding for the above off topic tale but I included it to show some members that what may seem to be the way of the majority today can change so quickly.
We may all be with Woolies or Coles or Aldi or Moose or even back to Telstra in the future

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

I use cmobile, on onseller for Vodafone (Red plans) and Telstra (Blue plans). Mine costs $10 a month for unlimited phone and text messages and 1Gb of data. I've never used up that Gigabyte. Mostly because I use the wifi when at home.

When we travel my wife buys a Boost Sim on the cheapest monthly plan and uses it in the second Sim slot on her phone. We use Boost for the sometimes better Telstra coverage.

DMaxer · Guru

Just a question; if the bolted on member passed away, how do you suggest we contact him. If he has passed away, do you think there might be telephones in the afterlife?

Rob Driver · Guru

DMaxer wrote:
Just a question; if the bolted on member passed away, how do you suggest we contact him. If he has passed away, do you think there might be telephones in the afterlife?

Hahaha It was just a joke DMaxer. biggrin biggrin

Have you heard the song by Jimmy Little titled *The Royal Telephone.*

Well anyone can talk to Jesus on that phone according to the lyrics. Maybe Jesus might pass the message on if he comes across him.

But wait.

bolted on may have gone to the other place and if, in fact, he has, then I hope he has adjusted to drinking hot beer. biggrin

Unfortunately I believe that Jimmy Little recently passed as well and to this day I dont believe that he wrote the lyrics in another song advising us all how to talk the bloke in the other place. biggrin

Rob Driver · Guru

For those that may not have heard it or want to hear it or want to leave the forum then.

HERE IT IS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY BOOST MOBILE. biggrin

https://youtu.be/qqdQUL5k2gA

Mike Harding · Guru

Rob Driver wrote:
many members on here have proven that Boost Telstra retail is the same service as the raw Telstra.

I have little doubt that Boost offer exactly the same service as Telstra including things such as VoLTE, VoWiFi, the same coverage maps and user bandwidth.

When I switched from Belong (Telstra wholesale) to Boost (Telstra retail) for my hot-spot device I noticed a marked improvement in bandwidth and if you check the coverage maps:

Telstra retail

Telstra wholesale

You will discover areas where retail has better coverage, however for most people, most of the time whole sale is quite adequate. Indeed, I intend to use the 100GB I have on Woolworth for hot-spotting when possible in order to reduce the demand on my Boost account.

oldbloke · Guru

Rob Driver wrote:
For those that may not have heard it or want to hear it or want to leave the forum then.

HERE IT IS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY BOOST MOBILE.

https://youtu.be/qqdQUL5k2gA

Your a funny bugger.

I haven't heard that since I went to Sunday school. Lol

oldbloke · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
Rob Driver wrote:
many members on here have proven that Boost Telstra retail is the same service as the raw Telstra.
I have little doubt that Boost offer exactly the same service as Telstra including things such as VoLTE, VoWiFi, the same coverage maps and user bandwidth.
When I switched from Belong (Telstra wholesale) to Boost (Telstra retail) for my hot-spot device I noticed a marked improvement in bandwidth and if you check the coverage maps:
Telstra retail
Telstra wholesale
You will discover areas where retail has better coverage, however for most people, most of the time whole sale is quite adequate. Indeed, I intend to use the 100GB I have on Woolworth for hot-spotting when possible in order to reduce the demand on my Boost account.

My conclusion is that yr pretty right.

VK2FJW · Veteran Member

I have changed to Felix hangs off Vodafone so not 100% coverage but:-

UNLIMITED Calls and Data speeds up to 20Mb/s within Australia, runs your Smart TV and computer!

$35/month add $5/month and get Unlimited Overseas calls to 40 countries!

Cheap as chips!

Mike Harding · Guru

VK2FJW wrote:
I have changed to Felix hangs off Vodafone so not 100% coverage

Aside from the (lack of) Vodafone coverage:

Coverage map

The terms and conditions do not permit the use of a Felix SIM in a modem or as a "replacement for home internet" - what that means for smart TVs I do not know:

T&Cs

I suggest there are many, many better deals out there.

86GTS · Guru

You can also get the 10% of groceries discount if you take out a Woolworths car insurance policy plus a $50 shopping voucher.

Phlipper · Senior Member

Whenarewethere wrote:
We went from 3 land lines, to plan, to monthly prepay, to annual prepay. We were a bit sad giving up our really nice landline numbers, but we like the reduced costs these days... which make up for other increasing expenses.

oops, sorry, wrong post and cant seem to be able to delete ir ?

-- Edited by Phlipper on Thursday 21st of April 2022 10:58:35 AM

-- Edited by Phlipper on Thursday 21st of April 2022 10:59:18 AM

Phlipper · Senior Member

We both use Moose, but not a big plan. $14.80 per month for unlimited national calls and txt plus 6 gig data. The most data I have ever used was 1.5 gig, I dont stream movies or the like, just general internet surfing almost daily.

CraigS · Newbie

we've had my wife on the Woolies 12 month plan for a while.. the 10% she saves on our large monthly shop covers the cost of her monthly phone bill essentially making her phone free!

Gundog · Guru

Big downside is no 5g.

Just a heads up when buying a phone and your flip flopping around the big back yard, make sure it has band 28, its the 700mhz frequency that is best for country areas.