Understanding the Choice plan

30 July 2024

The Kiwi Mobile Choice plan is a whole new way to mobile. It’s different to what you have seen before and designed to make things fairer and cheaper for Kiwis.

To help you really understand the nuts and bolts, we’ll take you through a few examples of how you might use it, and what things might cost.

Andy’s plan.

Andy was with another big telco previously, and the below graph shows his monthly usage over a year (this is real usage from one of our staff). As you can see, he was paying $65 for 12GBs of max speed data (note the allowance has recently moved up to 15GBs). Andy used between 5GBs and 13GBs a month over the year.

The key difference with Kiwi mobile’s Choice Plan, is that our plan flexes with your data usage. You don’t need to pay for 12 or 15 GBs every month just in case you might need them. You commit to 5GBs, and then after that you can level up to unlimited max speed data (if you need it!) each month and just pay for what you use. You get peace of mind, and save!

To make the comparison fairer, we’ve shown the below compared to his old telco’s 15GB plan – but note that in September, Andy was actually slowed down on his 12GB plan (he is still complaining about it). As you can see, every month Andy would have been better off on Kiwi Mobile’s Choice plan.

Based on Andy’s actual usage he would have saved $271 with Kiwi mobile.

You may look at this usage and say, why did Andy not just move to that big telco’s 5GB plan ($45 per month)?

Good question. But if Andy did, based on this usage, he would still save $39 annually with Kiwi Mobile, and he would avoid being slowed down 6 months out of 12. Sounds like he is better off with us.

Drilling into usage

Let’s look into a few examples of how monthly usage might work and what that would cost on the Kiwi Mobile Choice Plan (vs with his old big telco). We’ll look at January, February and March on Andy’s Kiwi Mobile Choice plan. Note that the data used each day here is estimated, as his old telco did not have historical daily data usage available for this analysis.

When we talk about data used below, we are assuming that all of it was max speed data (e.g. Andy was on the max speed mode and levelled up at the end of each tier).

Getting nerdy

With Kiwi mobile, you don’t have to level up to more max speed data when you run out. If you’d rather save more money, you can continue at the end of any tier on endless data (it just means you slow down to 1.2mb/s – which can be annoying for some things, but for email and simple stuff it’s ok). So let’s look at a few examples.

1. Capping your tier

This shows the price difference on Kiwi Mobile’s Choice plan if Andy had capped his max speed data at 10GBs in March. As you can see it would have cost $46 with the 10GB cap in place, and Andy would have spent 6 days on endless data (at 1.2Mb/s). To stay on max speed data the whole time it would have cost Andy $47.80 ($1.80 more to stay at max speed).

2. Using lots of max speed data

The cool thing about Kiwi Mobile, is that you can save if you use lots too. But just because you need to use lots of max speed data some (or heaps) of the time, it should not mean you need to pay for lots every month right?

The below example shows a comparison between a made up customer (let’s call him Bob) that used 86GBs. The comparison is between the other telco’s $85 unlimited plan. To stay on max speed the entire time, Bob would have paid $60.40 on Kiwi Mobile’s Choice Plan, and if Bob had capped his max speed data at 40GBs, then he would have paid $59.40.

One of the best things about the Choice plan, is that while you know you have heaps of max speed data when you need it, you just don’t need to pay for the luxury!

Let’s look at a month where Bob only used 28.81GBs (still a lot for many people, but lower than average for Bob). As you can see Bob would pay just $52.40 with Kiwi Mobile, compared to his normal $85 with the other telco. That’s over $30 of savings in just one month!

The Kiwi Mobile Choice plan is flexible and fair and designed to save you money. You never need to worry about running out of max speed data, but you only pay for the max speed data that you need. That’s better.

Note: Prices for competitors sourced from their websites on 16/07/2024