If you're taking your MyNetFone Mobile service overseas this holiday season, we've got you covered.

Before Departure, contact MyNetFone and take advantage of our great value Roaming Travel Packs. Packs come in 5 and 10 day options with the following inclusions. 

With over 60 international destinations to choose from, staying connected overseas will be a breeze. See the full list global roaming and PAYG rates. 

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Phone Terror is a method that's been used by movie makers for decades. Landline phones, mobile phones, and more recently smart phones have all shaped the scary movie genre.

Here are 5 films that might make you want to unplug your phone this Halloween. How many have you seen?

You can avoid scary surprises with your phone by choosing one of our unlimited home phone plans. Receive unlimited calls to standard Australian numbers, mobile calls or international dialling. There's a plan for everyone.

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Are you overdue for a holiday? It's always nice to get away, but who’s there to stop your world falling apart without you? 

If you're out of the house, the Follow-Me function enables you to re-direct incoming calls to multiple numbers simultaneously or in succession. In other words - if you're not able to answer your home phone, the call can be diverted to your mobile, office or designated landline.

If you still want to keep tabs on your home life but don't feel like taking a call, you can have voicemails sent directly to your email as an audio file so you never miss a beat.

Manage these and other call features on the MyNetFone online portal.

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With 4.26 million Australian premises actively using an nbn™ service, it’s the perfect time to investigate how the new fibre network is being used. For the full month of April 2018, NBN Co looked at the usage patterns of every active nbn™ user to see how bandwidth was being demanded. The analysis was the largest to date, using information from over 3.7 million users from all nbn™ access technologies.

NBN Co released a report identifying the behavioural and usage patterns of the average user. The report identified when the nbn™ is being used and how much data is being consumed. The results will be used to inform future decisions about the network, however the report alone delivered some interesting insights.

According to the report the average nbn™ user downloads 190GB per month. However, the median was almost half that amount at 108GB per month. This can be explained by a small number of nbn™ users on the higher end of the spectrum using considerably more than most users. In fact only 14% of users were responsible for 50% of all downloads in the month of April.

One particular nbn™ customer using Premium speed managed to download a whopping 23.59 TB in one month - the equivalent of 5,000 DVDs.

According to NBN Co the vast majority of traffic demand comes from live streaming, web browsing and tunnelling (usually through a VPN for security). With downloads continually increasing month by month, it's a good thing we've got the infrastructure in place to service our downloading needs well into the future.

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NBN has updated the coverage map it uses to identify which premises are ready for connection. The interactive coverage checker is powered by Google maps and uses the NBN rollout data to identify the status of any address in Australia.

Just type your (or your neighbours) address into the interactive coverage checker, and see if the premises is ready for an NBN connection and what type of access technology is expected to be used.

If NBN coverage is unavailable in your area, you can sign up to a DSL plan until it becomes available. If you're a MyNetFone customer, we'll waive any cancellation fees when you migrate to an NBN plan with us.

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Getting your first mobile phone is a rite of passage prioritised before a driver’s license or even a first job. So it’s probably no surprise that there are more than 33.6 million active mobile connections in Australia - an average of about 1.3 mobile services for every person. These figures are from the 2018 ACCC communications sector market study.

The study also revealed a few other interesting mobile habits. The cost of mobile phones is down (3.1%), data quotas are up (49%) and while the big three mobile phone providers control the majority of the mobile market, we're seeing an increase in virtual  providers who provide around 11% of mobile services. And this number is on the rise.

In Australia, the three major Mobile Network Operators (Optus, Vodafone and Telstra) offer parts of their mobile network to other providers – called Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) - that don’t have a physical mobile network of their own. The MVNOs are thereby able to resell mobile services under their own brand, as if they operated a network.

Source: ACCC (2018)

Why are Australians turning away from the traditional mobile service model?

Gone are the days when people had to stick with their expensive mobile phone provider like a losing football team, contractually bound to them for 1-2 year plans. With more providers offering month-to-month SIM-only phone plans, consumers are shopping around for a service provider with the right price - that doesn't tie them down. And as more mobile competitors enter the market, consumers are spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing an operator.

In Australia, the market share of MVNOs is growing. MVNOs were practically unheard of a decade ago. But today, MVNO brands are behind more than 1 in 10 mobile services. If you haven't reviewed the cost of your mobile service recently - there's a good chance you're paying too much.

Existing MyNetFone customers will soon be eligible for an exclusive mobile offering. Stay tuned for more details.

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