So I made like 5 calls to Optus today. Got transferred here and there but eventually I managed to get what I want.

Termination fee is $730 for the first 12 months regardless, after the first 12 months it’s a percentage. The termination fee is calculated based on the plan you FIRST signed up with. Doesn’t matter if you upgrade it’ll still be the same.

So I thought, hang on then can’t I sign up for the $19 cap and then upgrade to $49 with a much lower termination fee? Well, it seems they have that loophole covered. You can do that but…you’ll end up paying for the handset payments from the $19 cap instead of the $49 cap, which will turn out to be a lot higher overall. Bastards!

But in the end, I weighed my options and decided to just upgrade. It’ll cost me $438 to terminate my contract (after the 40% discount) and an addition $156 worth of handset repayments, which adds up to around $594, which should be around the same price that I can sell my iphone 3g for.

To finish off I saw the most hilarious tweet today. Kevin Rudd tweeted “Ok. So its only a couple of hours to go before I’m on Rove. With Bruno! Any ideas guys about how I can get out of this one?” and then Rove replies with “Send a fake email?”. Brilliant.