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SIM Only Phone Plans

Sim Only phone plans are a mobile phone service sold without a new phone handset, and usually without a long-term contract. You simply pop your old SIM card out of your phone and insert the new SIM in its place. Activating a new account only takes a couple of minutes and you can transfer your old number in a matter of hours.

SIM Only phone plans are becoming increasingly popular because of their flexibility. Many are offered on a no-contract basis and which means you're free to move to a different service any time you like.

Sim Only plans are also extremely affordable. Without an expensive phone to pay off, the monthly cost of a SIM Only service can be half as much as a traditional phone plan, or less.

Prepaid and Postpaid Plans - What's the Difference?

There are a few important differences to consider when looking at Prepaid and Postpaid phone plans. With Postpaid plans, you're sent a bill at the end of the month which includes the monthly access fee plus any charges for usage on top of your standard inclusions.

With Prepaid plans, you need to recharge your account at the beginning of the month, and then again if you use up all of the included credit. You are protected from excess usage charges as your access to specific services will stop when you reach your limits.

How We Choose the Best Mobile Phone Plans

Every month the WhistleOut team get together to highlight the best mobile phone and internet plans. We call these our Editor’s Picks.

Before we settle on these selections we take a number of things into account. Obviously the price of a plan and the plan inclusions are key elements, but we also want to be sure that we’re recommending good providers.

We rate each provider on the plan features and customer support channels it offers, tally up reviews from across the web and calculate the plan's value for money across a range of different use cases. 

We then find the best value plans across a range of categories and use our provider rankings to help determine which plan is the best. It may not be the cheapest plan, but we are confident that it's the best plan we can find each month.

Australian Mobile Phone Carriers

Which network is behind your telco?

Aldi Mobile	?
Amaysim		?
Belong	?
Boost Mobile	?
Circles.Life		?
Coles		?
Dodo		?
Exetel		?
Hello Mobile			?
iiNet		?
Jeenee Mobile		?
Kogan Mobile			?
Lebara Mobile			?
Lycamobile	?
MATE	?
Moose Mobile		?
numobile	?
OVO Mobile		?
Pennytel	?
Southern Phone		?
SpinTel		?
Tangerine Telecom	?
Telechoice	?
TPG			?
Vaya		?
Woolworths Mobile	?
Yomojo		?

There are dozens of mobile phone providers to choose from, and with so much choice comes competition. Mobile phone plans have never been as affordable as they are today, and each plan comes packed with high-value inclusions like mobile data, international calls and messages, and exclusive video content, including sports, Foxtel and Netflix.

Before you dive in, there’s one essential piece of information about Australia’s mobile phone companies. While you have a choice of dozens of providers, there are only three mobile phone networks: the Telstra network, the Optus network and the Vodafone network. Because of this, we refer to Telstra, Optus and Vodafone as Mobile Network Operators.

All of the other mobile phone carriers piggyback on one of these three networks and we call these Mobile Virtual Network Operators or MVNOs. These companies buy service from Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, bundle it up into unique phone plans and sell it on to you. Without the costs involved in running the networks, these smaller telcos are able to be a lot more competitive in their plan pricing.

ALDI Mobile is a popular example of an MVNO. While it's difficult to see at first glance, when you buy an ALDI Mobile plan you are accessing the Telstra 4G mobile network. ALDI buys calls, messages and data from Telstra, packages these up and sells them as ALDI Mobile plans. amaysim is another well-known MVNO who offers a similar service on the Optus 4G network.

Armed with this information, you should feel more confident about finding a mobile phone plan or deal. Sure, you may not have heard of some of the suppliers in our database, but you can be sure that the coverage and service are the same as what you'd get if you signed up with one of the major providers.

Telstra Mobile Phone Plans

Telstra Mobile Phone Plans are a masterclass in simplicity. Rather than offering a dozen incrementally different phone plans, Telstra’s range includes just four: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large.

Regardless of whether you want a new phone, or just want a SIM card for your current handset, Telstra customers choose from the same phone plan range. Each plan includes unlimited talk and text, plus a hefty chunk of mobile data. Prices start from $50 per month for the Small plan with 15GB of data, and range up to $100 per month with a huge 150GB of data.

What we like about Telstra plans:

• Four simple plans makes for simple comparisons
• All plans come with generous data inclusions
• Free access to NRL, AFL, AFLW, netball and A-League football streaming
• You can jump on Australia’s first 5G network if you have the right device

See all current Telstra mobile phone plans.

Optus Mobile Phone Plans

If you’re looking for a new iPhone or the latest Samsung smartphone, Optus is the first place you should look for a bargain. You might be surprised to learn this, but Optus tends to have the most attractive deals on new phones, and is consistently cheaper than rivals Telstra and Vodafone.

Optus phone plans offer a lot of flexibility. If one of the core four plans don't suit you, you can tinker with individual inclusions like data, roaming data, and international calls. And if you need a new smartphone, you can pay it off over 12, 24, or 36 months.

Beyond the basics, almost everyone who signs-up for an Optus phone plan gets free access to Optus Sport and an extended Apple Music free trial?. Optus customers can also tap into the Optus Perks program, which offers discounted movie tickets, pre-sale concert tickets and regular competitions.

What we like about Optus plans:

• Often great value for a new smartphone plan
• International calls and roaming included in some plans
• Phones can be paid off over 12, 24, or 36 months
• Optus Sport is a must for any European football fan

See all current Optus mobile phone plans.

Vodafone Phone Plans

Vodafone may not have the largest coverage footprint in Australia (though with 96% of the population covered, it’s not far off), but it does have the largest global footprint. As part of the Vodafone group, Australian Vodafone customers tap into the reach of the Vodafone business across the world.

The most obvious benefit of this is Vodafone’s $5 per day international roaming feature. Vodafone customers can travel to over 50 countries across the globe and pay just $5 extra per day to tap into their standard monthly inclusions. This means that if you have a plan with 100GB of data per month to use in Australia, you can also use 100GB per month while you travel around the world.

Besides travellers, Vodafone tends to be good value for domestic phone and SIM plans too. Vodafone ditched phone plan contracts a few years ago and now offers customers interest-free repayments on any new phone and no-contract phone plans. With this flexibility, Vodafone customers can change plans at any time without resetting contract terms or paying early termination fees.

What we like about Vodafone plans:

• $5 per day international roaming is the best way to travel with your smartphone
• No contract plans give control to the customer
• Vodafone offers bundling discounts when you sign up for an NBN internet plan
• You often get a loyalty discount on the price of the latest smartphones

See all current Vodafone mobile phone plans.

ALDI Mobile Phone Plans

The checkout at the supermarket might be the last place you’d think to look for a hot mobile phone deal, but hundreds of thousands have found exactly that while queuing up at the checkout of their local ALDI. 

ALDI Mobile plans are quite a lot like ALDI supermarkets. On the surface they may seem basic and no-frills, but there's quite a lot of added value in an ALDI Mobile plan once you take a closer look.

ALDI Mobile plans are a solid choice if you’re someone who just wants a good price on talk, text and data. Customers with family and friends overseas are well looked after with unlimited calls to a number of overseas destinations included in a number of ALDI Mobile plans.

What we like about Aldi Mobile plans:

• ALDI Mobile prepaid phone plans are billshock free, you can never spend more than you expect
• Rollover data stores up unused data each month for when you need it in the future
• You can download an ALDI Mobile app to help you keep track of your account
• The ALDI Mobile service is powered by the Telstra 4G network

See all current ALDI Mobile phone plans.

Belong Mobile Phone Plans

Which mobile phone company should you choose if you want to be a Telstra customer without paying Telstra prices? Considering that Belong is owned by Telstra, and runs on the Telstra network, it seems like a good place to start. 

Belong SIM Only plans are wonderfully simple. Just choose how much data you need; either 1GB, 10GB or 30GB, and then decide if you would like to pay an extra $5 per month for unlimited international calls to 33 selected countries.

At the end of each month, the unused data in your account is stashed away in your Data Bank, which accumulates unused data from month to month and makes it available in other months when you hit your data limit. If you can’t get through it all yourself, you can gift your excess data to any other Belong mobile customer

What we like about Belong Mobile plans:

• Fast data and huge coverage on the Telstra network
• Data bank and data gifting are both great ideas
• All plans are no contract, so no long term commitments

See all current Belong mobile phone plans.

Woolworths Mobile Phone Plans

Woolworths Mobile is a good option for all sorts of phone plans, but it is particularly worth considering if you’re shopping for a new phone and are looking for an alternative to Telstra, Optus and Vodafone.

No, we’re not talking about the cheapie phones you buy at the cigarette counter. Woolies ranges new phones from Samsung and OPPO, including the Samsung Galaxy S10 and the OPPO Reno.

A key selling point of Woolworth’s Mobile plans is that you will never be charged for excess data usage. If you hit your data limit any time in the month, you data simply switches off until you choose to top up or you wait until the next billing month begins. You’ll never be stung with a shocking phone bill on a Woolworth’s phone plan.

What we like about Woolworths Mobile plans:

• Woolies plans operate of the Telstra 4G network
• Unused data is rolled over each month and accumulates up to 100GB
• Phone plans come with a Family Zone subscription which is great for young families
• Woolworth’s always has one of the best deals when the latest Samsung phones launch

See all current Woolworths Mobile phone plans.

Boost Mobile Phone Plans

Don’t be put off by its punky, urban brand and marketing, Boost Mobile is a hidden gem for anyone hunting around for a phone plan on the Telstra network. You don’t need to be kick-flipping a skateboard to see the value in Boost Mobile plans.

Boost Mobile prepaid plans are split into five recharge options from $10 up to $70 per top up. The plans come with a decent amount of mobile data, and impressively all plans include some calls to international numbers. Plans from $30 and up have unlimited calls to a variety of countries.

Real bargain hunters can pay for 6- or 12-months' worth of service upfront and save on the total of their bill for that period. For example, unlimited calls, SMS and 240GB of data costs $300 and lasts for an entire year.

What we like about Boost Mobile plans:

• Full access to the Telstra 4G network
• Long expiry plans are great value
• Unused data builds up in a Data Bank
• All plans are prepaid, which means no bill shock

See all current Boost Mobile phone plans.

TPG Mobile Phone Plans

TPG is far better known for its range of NBN and internet plans, but you might be surprised to learn that it also offers mobile phone plans

TPG mobile phone plans are all prepaid, which is great for people who like to have control over exactly how much they spend on their bill each month.

What we like about TPG Mobile plans:

• TPG is one of the few MVNOs operating on the Vodafone 4G network
• Simple plans are easy to understand
• You can keep an eye on your account using the TPG app for iPhone and Android phones

See all current TPG mobile phone plans.

amaysim Phone Plans

Though not the first MVNO in Australia, amaysim is one of the pioneers of the MVNO market in this country. The next time you're amazed by how cheap phone plans are today, remember that it was companies like amaysim that made it happen. 

From the beginning, the driving principle behind the amaysim brand was to keep things simple and easy to understand. Choosing an amaysim plan is as easy as choosing how much mobile data you need. 

What we like about amaysim plans:

• All amaysim services run on the Optus 4G network
• Plans are prepaid, but your account will auto-renew, saving you from having to manually top up
• International minutes are included in most plans
• amaysim is one of the few providers that still offers a 365 day long-expiry credit option

See all current amaysim mobile phone plans.