Telstra Pre-Paid Mobile Phone Calling Rates
There are so many ways to use your Pre-Paid service, whether you make a lot of national and international calls, send texts, pics and videos or browse the mobile web. To make the most of your Pre-Paid credit, explore the call and data charges for your offer. Remember, if you change the way you use your service, you can change your offer up to 10 times a year for free. Simply go to My Account or access it on your mobile phone.
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Telstra Pre-Paid Cap Encore™
| National Rates | |
|---|---|
| Voice calls anytime (+ 39c connection fee) | 89c / 60 secs (or part) |
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient within Australia | 29c |
| MessageBank® Diversion | FREE |
| MessageBank Retrieval (+ 39c connection fee) | 89c / 60 secs (or part) |
| MMS Picture and audio per message per recipient within Australia | 50c |
| MMS video per message per recipient within Australia | 75c |
| Data Rates | |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go data | $2 / MB (charged per kB) |
| International Rates | |
|---|---|
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient to an international number | 35c |
| MMS picture, audio or video per message per recipient to an International number | 75c |
| View international call rates per country | |
Telstra Pre-Paid Beyond Talk™
| National Rates | |
|---|---|
| Voice calls anytime (+ 39c connection fee) | 78c / 60 secs (or part) |
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient within Australia | 29c |
| MessageBank® Diversion | FREE |
| MessageBank Retrieval (+ 39c connection fee) | 78c / 60 secs (or part) |
| MMS Picture and audio per message per recipient within Australia | 50c |
| MMS video per message per recipient within Australia | 75c |
| Data Rates | |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go data | $2 / MB (charged per kB) |
| International Rates | |
|---|---|
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient to an international number | 35c |
| MMS picture, audio or video per message per recipient to an International number | 75c |
| View international call rates per country | |
Telstra Pre-Paid Simplicity™
| National Rates | |
|---|---|
| MessageBank® Diversion | FREE |
| MessageBank Retrieval (+ 39c connection fee) | 78c / 60 secs (or part) |
| MMS Picture and audio per message per recipient within Australia | 50c |
| MMS video per message per recipient within Australia | 75c |
| Data Rates | |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go data | 10c / MB (charged per MB) |
| International Rates | |
|---|---|
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient to an international number | 20c |
| MMS picture, audio or video per message per recipient to an International number | 75c |
| View international call rates per country | |
Long Life
| National Rates | |
|---|---|
| Voice calls anytime (+ 39c connection fee) | 78c / 60 secs (or part) |
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient within Australia | 29c |
| MessageBank® Diversion | FREE |
| MessageBank Retrieval (+ 39c connection fee) | 78c / 60 secs (or part) |
| MMS Picture and audio per message per recipient within Australia | 50c |
| MMS video per message per recipient within Australia | 75c |
| Data Rates | |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go data | $2 / MB (charged per kB) |
| International Rates | |
|---|---|
| Text (SMS) per message per recipient to an international number | 35c |
| MMS picture, audio or video per message per recipient to an International number | 75c |
| View international call rates per country | |
Other rates
| Numbers | Costs |
|---|---|
| 12 58 887 and 12 58 888 | A FREE call from your Telstra Pre-Paid mobile in Australia. If you're calling from a non-Telstra phone and can't connect on this number, call 13 2200 and when prompted say 'Pre-Paid'. |
| 12 58 880 | A FREE call from your Telstra Pre-Paid mobile in Australia. |
| 1223 Telstra Directory Assistance | 50c per call (flat rate). In addition, a connection fee of 99c also applies to successful and attempted connection to the number requested |
| 12456 Call Connect | $1.90, plus standard connection fee and airtime charges of 80c per minute (charged per second). In addition, a connection fee of 99c also applies to successful and attempted connection to the number requested. Standard Telstra Pre-Paid mobile charges and call connection fee apply to the connected call. |
| 1234 A 'personally assisted search' service (Call or SMS the service) | Calls from Telstra Pre-Paid mobiles cost $1.90 per call plus standard Pre-Paid mobile call connection charge and airtime charges of 80c per minute (charged per second). In addition, a connection fee of 99c also applies to successful and attempted connection to a number requested. Standard Telstra Pre-Paid mobile charges and call connection will apply to the connected call. For SMS, Telstra Pre-Paid customers will be charged $1.90 per request to the 1234 SMS service. |
| 1225 Directory Assistance – International | $1.65 per call (flat rate). |
Data charges are based on the amount of data that you use to access your email or browse the mobile internet on your mobile phone. These charges apply when you:
- access sites on the 'Web' tab such as Facebook® and eBay
- leave the 'Home' or 'My' tabs (for example, by clicking on an external website link in a Sensis Search results screen)
- directly access web sites by typing a URL into your mobile browser.
Within the 'Home' and 'My' tabs of BigPond® Mobile Services it is BigPond® Unmetered. This means, you can browse all your favourite stuff including BigPond music, mobile games, tones and BigPond® TV, as much as you like without incurring data charges. Charges apply for content downloads and subscription services – you will always be notified of these charges before you purchase or subscribe. Start exploring now by clicking the BigPond icon on your mobile. Note, advertisements that sit on unmetered sites you browse may count towards your download limit.
Find out more about the wide range of amazing BigPond entertainment on your mobile
If you want more data than what’s included in your offer, adding a Browse Plus Pack is the easy way to keep browsing.
Things you need to know
- Delays of up to 48 hours may apply for picture, audio and video message charges to be deducted from your account.
- A single SMS is up to 160 characters. For longer SMS, we charge the SMS fee for each 153 standard characters or part thereof. An MMS is up to 500kB in size.
