Editorial Strategist
Jacqui Dent is an Editorial Content Strategist at WhistleOut Australia, where she writes about mobile phone plans, NBN plans and everything in between. Over her ten-year career, she has worked to provide informed advice to the public, first in the sphere of writing and now in the world of consumer tech. Jacqui has also written about consumer telco products for Business Insider, Pedestrian and the 50Up Club.
The results of the ACCC's latest real-world speed test of Australian NBN connections has revealed TPG customers, on average, received 88.4% of their plan's maximum download speeds during peak hours.
Yesterday Australia's biggest telco, Telstra, announced it will sell a range of mobile accessories to be paid off over 24 months with its postpaid mobile and fixed broadband plans.
Telstra has just overhauled its 28-day expiry prepaid plans and added a heap more monthly data, increased the limit on data banking to 200GB and added a 10GB data bank bonus on the first five recharges for new customers.
Today, Australian company Origin Energy has added ADSL and NBN plans to its product range, becoming the third Australian company we know about to offer both energy and broadband services.
The Fitbit Versa is a combination fitness tracker and smartwatch for those who want a device that can do it all. Unfortunately, while the Versa is great at being a Fitbit, it's not very good at being a smartwatch.
It seems like every mobile carrier is in a race these days to see who can offer the most data. And the latest to up its data game is Optus, with a bonus data offer on 12 month SIM-only plans and a bonus data offer on Epic Data Prepaid plans.
The Nokia 5.1 is a no nonsense phone with a no nonsense price tag. It's solid, reliable and the Android One operating system should ensure it remains so for a pretty long time. If you have a little patience, you can get great photos out of it too. Just don't try the selfie camera.
If you've been thinking about taking up a BYO mobile plan with Telstra, you can now do it through JB Hi-Fi and get a cheaper per month price, more data and a $200 gift card or up to $740 store credit towards the outright cost of your phone.
One of the best things about having an iPhone is you tend to get the hottest new apps first. We've rounded up our favourites from among recent releases to help you pimp your new phone.
Tech giant Huawei will launch a new GPS locator device to help you find lost keys, wallets and pets. The announcement comes just weeks after Telstra launched its own suite of locator products.