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Here's everything you'd ever need to know about Telstra's MVNOs.
If you want to go hard-mode on budgeting data lessons, Boost's 12 month $230 plan gives the equivalent of 14GB for $20 per month - aka 170GB but gives you all of it up front, and it uses Telstra's full network rather than their wholesale network which Aldi, etc use.
I haven't used Telstra's wholesale network but if you're not going anywhere very remote I suspect it'll do just fine. You can see the coverage map and differences on the first link. I moved from Telstra to Boost and it's literally the same service, just cheaper.
One thing it doesn't mention is 5G which just looking at Aldi's website, ~~requires a special expensive plan to access~~ scratch that, but it still requires a higher plan than their 2 cheapest ones. Boost gives 5G no problemo.
Ha! This would be enough for me! And I am not careful any longer with data usage. I might go over 14GB some months, but I'd be under 10GB others.
It's also a third of what I'm presently paying Telstra. I really should have looked at this stuff at some earlier point.
I felt the exact same way when I switched lol
I just went to that 12 month plan 3 weeks ago. I looked at my data use each month and I'm WAY under because I'm always on WiFi so if I do go away for a holiday or something I'm free to hotspot without fear.
November had one weekend where I was hotspotting and streaming video for hours.