Any Optus Prepaid users here?

[Ozcoins]

Anyone can put anything they like in a contract, but it does NOT mean that it is actually legal or enforceable.
To give an extreme example so everyone can understand - If Optus put 'if you don't pay on time we will enslave your firstborn', it would not be enforceable.
I believe changing anything you were relying on when you enter into a contract probably breaks the original contract and you should be free to get out of it.
A one off 'good will gesture' does not make the change acceptable from then on.

[purplepennyhunter]

"we reserve the right to change any fine print at any time without telling you"

[Fulvio]

I believe changing anything you were relying on when you enter into a contract probably breaks the original contract and you should be free to get out of it.

That may well be true. But.. since each change makes things worse, and the deal I've got is grandfathered, it would be very silly to bail out and switch to an alternative.

For example, I get 300 minutes of freetime with each recharge, which I can use to talk to other prepaids for free, or to anybody else for ten cents a minute. There is no equivalent deal anywhere nowadays. Therefore, they've got me by the you know what's, for now at least. :dodgy:

[robbiegal]

gee OZ
I am not a contract solicitor
but the telcos in Australia are world renown for being merciless bastards
we have too small of a population to take them on

[Fulvio]

we have too small of a population to take them on

Its not that so much as the fact we're really just a big mob of sheeple.