2degrees Announces Its PrePay Prices
2degrees revealed their prepaid mobile services today at a press conference in Auckland. Although there are no postpaid plans as yet, they're hoping to slowly introduce more services as they go along. The following is a summary of the announcements they made:
- Only PrePay option for now as only 25% of the market use Postpaid
- $0.44 a minute to call anyone, anytime
- $0.09 a text to anyone
- $0.50 a picture text to anyone
- $0.44 calls, $0.09 texts and $0.50 picture texts to anyone in other 21 countries
- Bonus texts and cheaper call rates for 30 days after top up
- Free 100 anyone texts for $20 top up (lasts for 30 days)
- Free 150 anyone texts for $30 top up (lasts for 30 days)
- More free texts will be given as the top up value increases
- $0.22 a minute to call any 2degrees mobile when topping up (lasts for 30 days)
- $0.22 a minute to call any NZ landline when topping up (lasts for 30 days)
- Port your mobile number from another telco and get $5 credit
- SIM cards will be sold at $2 or $20
- You can top up by voucher, credit/debit card, free 201 call, online
- Roam internationally, view usage online, get customer care for free, 24/7
- No per second billing, calls are charged per minute.
- $0.50 per MB of data.
- GPRS and EDGE (2.5G) for now, 3G later.