Donate your data

Welcome to Donate Your Data

This page is for Donate Your Data participants. Learn what’s in your plan, how to set it up, activate your SIM and more. Need help? Call us on 1300 132 208. 

Donate your data

Welcome to Donate Your Data

This page is for Donate Your Data participants. Learn what’s in your plan, how to set it up, activate your SIM and more. Need help? Call us on 1300 132 208

What’s Donate Your Data?

Donate Your Data is our program to give people free mobile data, because we believe everyone deserves a fair go. And in today’s world, that means having the opportunities and services that can only come with reliable access to the internet. 

So we created Donate Your Data, to help stars like yourself reach your full potential.

What to do with your new SIM

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Activate your SIM

Watch our video below for activation steps, then go to optus.com.au/activate

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Put your SIM in your phone

Insert your SIM into your mobile and wait between 15 minutes and 4 hours for activation to complete.

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Confirm your number

Contact your charity partner and let them know your phone number.

Watch our activation support video

This video will describe how to activate your new, specially marked Optus Donate Your Data SIM card that your charity partner has given you.

The video is divided into three parts. Please go to the section that is relevant to you.

    Getting a new number.

    Keeping your current number with Optus.

    Moving your current number from another telco.

Remember it is very important to use this Donate Your Data SIM or you won’t access the benefits of the program.

Need help in another language?

This video has captions in English. You can change the captions to your language of choice.

Make sure to click YouTube subtitle icon to turn on subtitles and then click YouTube settings icon, subtitles, auto-translate and choose your language!

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Call 1300 132 208
to get help with Donate Your Data

Call us if you need help activating your SIM, or head into your local Optus store and tell staff you’re a Donate Your Data participant.

What's provided

Free Prepaid service

With donated data and unlimited standard national talk and text.
T&C's apply.

Monthly data top ups

20GB every 35 days and up to 40GB of donated data every 28 days*.
T&C's apply.

Need help?

Call our dedicated team on 1300 132 208 or head into an Optus store if you need help.

*Donated data amount is not guaranteed and may change

Our Partners

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Logo of the Kari Foundation
Logo of Good360

Meet someone we’ve helped

Donate Your Data program participant Ali-Grace.

Frequently asked questions