Whatever happened to charging us for the data we use? Optus has launched a new prepaid option for its wireless broadband service, but with the unusual proviso that the data used will be charged in ...

Optus prepaid customers now have access to the company's newfangled 4G network. Announced late last year, the telco kicked-off its 4G post-paid services in September across Sydney, Newcastle, and ...

While competitors have all kinds of unlimited talk and text plans with varying levels of data for any type of customer, Optus hopes its newfound flexibility fulfils its promise of "prepaid, remade".

Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His passions include bourbon, video games and boring strangers with photos of his cat. Optus has revamped its prepaid mobile ...

Optus has spent $103 million over the past three months bolstering its 3G network to support the one product category showing significant growth — prepaid. As fixed line customers remain flat for ...

Optus has begun offering the Huawei Mini WiFi modem for $129 on prepaid data plans. It doesn't seem long ago that a basic mobile broadband modem cost hundreds of dollars. Now Optus is selling Huawei's ...

A week after a routine software update gone wrong left millions of Optus customers in the dark, questions around financial compensation and legal action are haunting the telco giant. Amongst the ...

The outage, which began shortly after 4am and is impacting around 10 million Australians, has wreaked havoc on businesses, hospitals and transport network. Now, a new wave of Aussies are experiencing ...

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Optus says "changes to routing information" after a "routine software upgrade" was behind last week's nationwide outage, affecting 10.2 million Australians and impacting 400,000 businesses. A routine ...