Talk:New Zealand/@comment-222.154.234.248-20160116203112/@comment-24682153-20160117133405

Well, I can't subscribe to your point of view. "Prepaid" or Pay-as-you-go means that you load up an account and exchange it later to allowances using it as data, sms, mins. It's the contrary to most contracts, that are billed and paid after usage, hence called postpaid.

In NZ the two most common prepaid models of the world are used: On Vodafone, Spark and Skinny you are on a base plan (Skinny calls it combo) with certain included allowances and you can add more data in packages. On 2° there is no evident base plan, you simply add packages for data. Of course, the default rate of the provider always constitutes some kind of base plan. So this distinction is not really feasible in the end.

But that's how it is done with almost all prepaid offers around. That allowances are not unlimited and will expire after a defined period, you will face with any prepaid offer nowadays. So I can't really imagine, what you'd call "real prepaid".