While opening a bank account with the commonwealth bank, you are given the option for netbanking, and i wonder why it is an option as in this this world netbanking is a given service, also its free, so why the registration? anyway, the bank requires your mobile number to sync with your details, and the netbank confirmation messages are sent to your mobile with furious haste.
I had to give my brother's mobile number as i hadn't got one myself, and refer to his inbox for the short messages.
While getting a mobile/number is a fairly straightforward process, and you would prefer the handset-postpaid deal, because rumor has it that mobile service providers are funding handset makers and getting exclusive rights to offer those particular handsets to their customers, and because it is a good deal for usage reasons as well.
But to get a postpaid deal you need a bank account with some minimum balance, and the bank account in my case has a different mobile number registered, which didn't create consequential problems.
The problem is not very consequential, but may delay your joy of getting a new phone or a working bank account.
Also one factor in the process is the student ID (or any other identification) which also asks for your mobile number. Thus it can be concluded that getting a mobile number is the first task one must do to facilitate the other tasks like getting a bank account and a student ID, and you need them to get a mobile number!
Existing Solution: Extremely polite and helpful staff at the bank solves your problems in a jiffy, but you need to go the bank. And extremely robotic staff at the phone sales and student helpdesk help you if you state your queries in bullet points.
Other Solutions: A phone number be issued with the passport, so as soon as you enter the new country tada! you have a mobile number. There will be mountains of policies to be moved for this, sure, but considering 99.99% students would open a bank account and buy a phone in the first few weeks of landing, it may well be integrated.
Like the health cover is now integrated with the university application process.
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