<div dir="ltr"><div>Telstra: The national carrier with the best coverage charges a premium</div><div>Optus: Has just spent 4 billion on infrastructure and you can generally get services much cheaper than Telstra but with poorer regional coverage.</div><div><br></div><div>Data on the mobile carriers is expensive... So for 3 GB a month and phone I pay $29.90AUD through amaysim (who run on the optus network).</div><div><br></div><div>You can purchase prepaid data sims and phone sims for your i* devices but as Lonni says they cost .... </div><div><br></div><div>Free wifi is consistently available from McDonald's restaurants (capped to 50MB I believe). Although other venues (restaurants, public libraries, cafes) do have free wifi, you have to search.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 August 2016 at 04:42, Bill Campbell via Linux-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-users@linux-sxs.org" target="_blank">linux-users@linux-sxs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My wife and I are going to Australia next month. What options<br>
are available for my iPhone 6 Plus and iPad?<br>
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We will be staying with friends in Sydney and Brisbane before<br>
going to Darwin so Internet connections will be OK until we get<br>
to Darwin and Kakadu.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions welcome, including possibilities of meeting<br>
Linux folk while there.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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