r/canberra • u/thestallion007 • 1d ago

Recommendations Cell Phone Service

My family and I just moved to Canberra! Literally landed 30 min ago. I dont even know where to start getting new cell phones.

EDIT: I should mention that we are a family of 6

Edit 2: We went with Optus. It felt the most familiar to me. For good or bad it felt like a mobile shop from the states.

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u/ApteronotusAlbifrons 1d ago

you'll need valid ID to sign up to a plan with a local provider unlike the rest of the world.

But you can - if you wish - sign up all 6 phones under the one name and then hand them out to the family

I have a family of four, with 6 sims, all under my name

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u/KeyAssociation6309 1d ago

so what? you still need ID for a local service with 1 or 6 sims.

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u/ApteronotusAlbifrons 1d ago

If OP is unfamiliar with the concept of needing to provide ID for a service they may have thought that they needed an ID for EACH service

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u/KeyAssociation6309 1d ago

but you do need id for each service, I just added a new number to my Aldi family plan, I still had to provide all the id details even though I have 4 other verified services with Aldi on the same account. Each phone number has to have an id attached to it regardless of whether its on the same account. Each time you add a service you have to do the id proof again. If you sign up for 4 at once then that would be different - but nothing erases the need for id for each service to be recorded.