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At present, I am on iPhone 60 with Vodafone. As the name implies. This costs me $60 per month incl the taxmans share. For this $60 I get 60 minutes, 200 txt msgs and 250mb of mobile data on their slow 3G network. At the time of writing, it will cost me $405 in early termination charges (ETC) to move to XT. I have $1100 or so credit on my Vodafone account. If I use this until it runs out, my ETC will reduce to a more reasonable $253. Continue reading…

I lie in that subject. I really do lie. But there’s a hint of truth in it too. How so you ask. Well. Here’s the deal. I have the XT prepay sim loaded up with credit and I’m ready to rock. Below what I’ve done so far with it:-

Test One – Speed Continue reading…

So my prepay Telecom XT sim card has arrived and I now have to update my iPhone to recognise all the APN data for XT as there’s nothing specific loaded onto the sim. There’s plenty of places you can find this information. But I’m not that technically minded, so I looked for another way to get the carrier settings for XT into my iPhone. Continue reading…

One of the deciding factors in buying the iPhone was that it would work without hitch on both Telecom XT and Vodafone 3G. I have recently become dissatisfied with the speed of Vodafone 3G broadband and their call reception. I consistently get 0.11mbps up/down at my desk at work, and a recent call to Taupo got dropped a whole four times. Very annoying. So I have contemplated a change of carriers for the first time since 2002. Continue reading…