Data usage charges for your prepaid service
This support article will give you key information about how data usage is charged on your prepaid service or Add-on.
How data usage is charged.
Data usage on prepaid services and Add-ons is charged in 1kB increments, excluding Pay and Go recharges, My Credit and 365 Plus recharges.
With a Pay and Go recharge, data is charged at 4c per MB in 256kB increments. When using My Credit, data is charged at 2c per MB in 512kB increments.
Additional information
If you’re on a Pay and Go recharge, you can either recharge again or get additional data with a Data Add-on.
If you’re on a $12, $160, $250 Prepaid Plus, you can get additional data with a Data Add-on.
If you’re on a $35 to $55 Prepaid Plus recharge, you can use infinite data at speeds of up to 1.5Mbps once you’ve used all other data in your recharge (including Included Data, Data Rollover and Data Add-ons).
If you’re on a prepaid recharge, roaming data is charged at our roaming rates. You can also get Prepaid Roaming Add-ons to use in over 50 selected destinations.
No. There’s no minimum balance needed to use data on prepaid. Provided you've got data left, you'll be able to access the internet until it's used up.
Yes. Both downloads (data you receive) and uploads (data you send) count towards your data usage.
No. Data usage is charged at the same rate, whether you’re tethering or using your device as a WiFi hotspot.