Mobile Data Usage Meter

Would you like to know the price for using Telstra's mobile internet information services (eg. Telstra Mobile Broadband) or sending photos from your mobile via MMS?

Telstra's Mobile Data Usage Meter provides Telstra Business customers (Next G/3GSM, GPRS and Telstra Mobile Broadband) with a way to preview an estimate of their current mobile data usage and charges. You no longer need to wait for your bill to have an idea of the cost of accessing services such as the latest news, stock prices, weather reports or sending photos from your mobile via MMS.

Not only can you access this information from this site, it is also available from your mobile phone and SMS at a small cost, so you can preview your estimated usage from your mobile phone anywhere within coverage areas.

Please Note: The Mobile Data Usage Meter is not currently available with TMB Shared Data Plans.

Notify me about my usage
Customers on selected mobile plans will be notified via SMS with Mobile Data Usage Meter estimates when they exceed 80 per cent and then 100 per cent of their data usage for the month. This feature can be disabled at anytime by logging into the Mobile Data Usage Meter area or sending an SMS. If you would like this feature but cannot access it with your current mobile plan, call 13 2000 (call charges apply) to arrange an upgrade to your data plan. Please note that Mobile Data Usage Meter Notices should be used as a guide only and will not prevent you from exceeding your usage limit.

PC access via the Internet
Log on to the Mobile Data Usage Meter site now by selecting the link below. Please note that to access Mobile Data Usage Meter you need a valid Telstra.com or BigPond account.

Accessing Mobile Data Usage Meter From Your Mobile Phone
Log on to BigPond Mobile Services on your mobile phone and under "My Account" for BigPond Mobile Services on Next G/3G phones or "Search & Info - Help & Support" on other WAP capable phones you will find "Mobile Data Usage Meter Snapshot". Simply select this link; no login is required, as your mobile phone is identified over the network. (Please note that standard WAP carriage charges apply).

Mobile access using SMS
Usage can be requested by sending an SMS text message with the appropriate keyword to 176 (standard SMS charges apply). Your mobile phone will be identified and the requested information will be sent to your mobile phone. If you have a data bundle plan and have requested Notices, you will be charged 25 cents for each Notice in addition to the cost of the request. The list of valid keywords and their output are listed below.

SMS Usage Keywords

Keyword	Information Provided
use	Will show you an estimate of data carriage sessions (data used), including: BigPond Mobile Services, MMS, and internet accessed from your mobile phone at the time of your request.
use.mms	Will display only the date and cost per event of 3GSM and GPRS picture messages.
use.info	Will display the disclaimer and information about the service.
use.help	Will display all the valid codes and the information returned by each of these.
notice	Will display the status of the Notice functionality (Notices are only available to selected data bundle plans).
notice.on	Will set the Notice functionality to ON (to available services).
notice.off	Will set the Notice functionality to OFF (to available services).