Dear Optus

I see you’ve acquired a sense of humour! How wonderful. The hilarious email you sent out this arvo with your iPhone pricing is one of the best pieces of humour writing I’ve had the pleasure of reading in recent memory. Tears – actual tears! – streamed down my face. I could scarcely breathe for laughing so hard. [Rogers recent iPhone packages](http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages)  in Canada were greeted with [great peals of laughter](http://fuckyourogers.com/)  , and Optus, here in Australia, have risen to the challenge admirably. Let’s read together my favourite passage:

And the great news is you’ll be able to get an 8G iPhone 3G from Optus for $0 on a $79 Cap plan over 24 months which provides $550 of calls, text and more, plus a whopping 700MB of included mobile data for Mobile Internet Browsing.

700MB is “whopping”? Is this 1990? Are you AOL?

At least Optus has announced their plans. Telstra mumbled something vague a few days ago, and Vodafone seems to have gone to sleep.