Originally Posted by
gizzard
Do you mean for traveling to Australia or for Australians?
If you mean traveling to Australia then you may not want to bother but it depends on your needs. You can buy pre-paid physical sims at the local supermarkets, Coles or Woolworths. Coles often have offers. Then it depends on the coverage that you want. Telstra based sims have the best coverage if you're traveling to more remote places. If you're just in the cities it doesn't really matter. Boost and Belong are both Telstra based and their sims can be bought at discounts at Coles. Boost includes calls to many countries but you have to pay A$5 more for Belong.
Yeah I got a Vodafone deal, like half off, at Coles.
I guess the supermarket chains use those to bring people into the stores. They seem to run them all the time. When I first visited Australia, like 15-20 years ago, the prepaid mobile data market wasn't very competitive.
Now you can get a lot of data, like tens of GBs or even over 100 GB for like 20-40 AUD.
Originally Posted by
Tuppe
Any tips for visitors to Australia needing ESIM? Couldn't see whether Vodafone did ESIM for monthly only, and looking for South WA coverage.
Yeah I think in country carriers will only offer eSIMs for post-paid plans and physical card for prepaid. At least for now.
In this thread, it's mostly companies which offer multi-country deals on eSIM but you don't get nearly as much data.