Optus Mobile Phone Plans
The second largest telecommunications company in Australia is SingTel Optus Pty Limited. The mobile phone subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, the company trades under the Optus Mobile brand. Its subsidiary brands include Virgin Mobile Australia, Uecomm, Boost Mobile, and Alphawest.
Optus Mobile went through a series of name changes before it finally settled on its present name. Prior to privatisation, Optus Communications Pty Limited was known as Aussat Pty Limited. It was also renamed to Cable & Wireless Optus Pty Limited. The first service ever offered by Optus, upon its privatisation, is long distance calls whose fees are a whole lot cheaper than its rival companies.
Products and Services
Optus Mobile provides mobile telephone technologies like Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), 3G, and satellite networks. These services, with the exception of 3G, cover all the cities in Australia. The different services offered by Optus Mobile include residential POTS, commercial POTS, commercial VoIP, commercial VoDSL, residential dial-up Internet, intelligent network applications, free calls, interactive voice response services, satellite Internet, commercial Internet access, wholesale Internet access, secure gateway services, CAP mobile plans, and prepaid mobile calling offers.
Mobile phone brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Blackberry use Optus Mobile services. The features of Optus Mobile powered phones include voicemail, multimedia messaging services (MMS), video calling, short message services (SMS), push to talk, SIM backup, and 3G. Optus Mobile offers three different mobile plans to their subscribers: the CAP Plans, the Yes Plans, and the Direct Plans.
Answering Services
Aside from Voicemail and Missed Call Services, Optus Mobile also offers two more exclusive answering services: the SurePage and the SureFax. SurePage is a mobile paging service that features a professional operator that answers mobile calls everytime the mobile phone owner is not available to receive the calls. The SurePage operator answers the calls and transmits the messages to the owner in the form of readable text. The mobile phone owner can read through his messages just like a pager. The SureFax is an answering service that gives the owner the power to receive, store, and send faxes even without a fax machine. The SureFax mobile faxing service is linked to the Voicemail service.
