Optus $79 fusion plan is it good value or recommend a good net/landline plan

[cakester69]

Hi I am looking into the optus $79 fusion plan for net and home phone as I am sick of paying for landline rental and high costs that telstra are offering. Just wondering if anyone has had any issues with this plan I have read the fine print but just wanting some more info or if there are better plans out there

[crumpet]

thats the plan we have and out net is shocking!

its so slow and drops out all the time, we are converting to telstra at this stage unless we get a better deal somewhere else or optus dramatically improves

[The[cookie]Doctor]

We love our Optus Plan.
I think the speed will be to do with the quality of the infrastructure as ours is fine. Although it is noticably (by super geek husbands, not myself) slower during peak, but still functional.
It's a pity they don't do a decent stand-alone cable deal because we really only wanted the big internet plan, rather than a phone line.
We have the phone with everything included (except non optus mobiles) and we dont even use it .
The only thing that really peeved me off is the first bill because they dont apply credits until later on.... they didnt advise us of that so the first bill was $150 more than we were expecting!

The worst thing about cable is that it is hard to come by - if you are in a cable area i would take advantage of a cable plan as chances are the adsl line hasnt been connected in a while and it will cost you a fair chunk to hook up.... that was the case with us at least.

ETA: just thought i would add that we are on the 99 (maybe 109) which is like 500gb of internet

[cakester69]

We have cable with telstra here and I noticed there are cable optus outlets in our lounge as well so will see if I can get cable

[Taurean]

We have that plan and it's been great. We've lost the net a few times for 10 minutes or so but that could and would happen with any provider.

I had nothing but trouble with Telstra over the years and vow to never use them again if I can help it.

[krysalyss]

That was the plan we were on. It doesn't have a lot of download so not great if you use a lot of youtube etc but I was downloading quite a lot of journal articles for work with no problems. Speed was fine and price was great. We had problems when we moved though - took 3 weeks for connection. We don't have a landline or anything now but probably would get the same plan if we did.

[Rivlas]

We have this plan with cable and have for about 4 years with no problems. I hated paying line rental so was the reason we changed. After the contract time you can change your plan at no cost which we have found great.

[~StarBright~]

I'm on the optus $129 fusion, but they had an offer where i got the 129 one for 99, i LOOOOOVVEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get 50gb of net, i can pick up the phone and call ANY local number, any international number, any mobile and any 1300 number and my bill never goes up!!! I have never had a problem with speed or loosing net ever.

I did have to pay a bit for the line, not sure how the cable or whatever works, or wireless if you can do that. Sadly we are about to move and where we are looking it looks like i may not get to have it anymore i am so bummed!!! I looked on teltra and to get the same as i have with optus it will cost me something like 159 a month!!! When we do finaly move and if i cant get wireless i will be so PO'd if i have to go with telstra!!!!

[MrsBexie]

Have you thought about Telstra bundles?? They are WAY cheaper than normal line rental and net together...
The net is awesome with Telstra and we have never had any probs...

[cakester69]

Mrs Bexie: I am currently on a telstra bundle as I have foxtel too but I am paying for line rental for a phone I hardly use on this bundle I also use std alot and am not getting any benifits from it I get free local calls but rarely use them and to get unlimited std I have to move to a higher bundle I want a plan where I am not being charged for using std with this fusion plan I am getting unlimited local std and optus mobiles which most of my family are on so I think its a good deal no line rental and 120gb of net I called them today as I want cable and wifi instead of charging $99 for install and $120 for wifi they are charging me $129 for the lot so thats a good deal I have signed up today. Telstra couldnt better that deal only wanting to take $10 off a $89 phone plan not bundle so we will see how it goes.

[Beach Mama]

We were on a bundle and a fusion plan for years and just recently realised we would be better off going with a stand alone phone plan (very basic plan as we don't use it hardly at all and have actually since we changed over gotten rid of it altogether and just use mobiles) and a stand alone net plan. We get 120gig or something and with the 2 together it was cheaper than a bundle. When we asked the guy on the phone why it was so much cheaper than the $129 fusion to do it this way his answer was basically that you get two bills. Worth looking into it based on how much net and phone allowance you need as for us it was a saving of around $40 a month to split it.