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**Pwy9egVW** · 04-12-2010, 01:16 AM

True, but they do have to cover the cost of providing you a voice / data network and it still works out cheaper. Say you get an iPhone 4 free on a 24 month contract at £45 per month that's £1,080. Take off the cost of the phone and that's £580 on the contract which is £24 per month for 900 cross network, anytime minutes, unlimited texts, 750mb data and unlimited wi-fi per month. It's still a much better deal than PAYG works out at over the same length of time. You can also drop your tariff down one slot per month after nine months with some networks. I started on £45 per month and I've dropped down to £35 per month now.

But you are still bound to a 2 year contract, and this is the point most of the people talking about getting a contract phone are seemingly forgetting. Most if not all networks will bind you to that for that term, bar maybe a month prior if you continue to use them as a network.

Say I get a phone, bind to a 2 year contract, I have to fill that term, or pay a massive fee to break it.

I simply don't want to be bound to any contract, I want complete freedom to switch about if I feel like it.

I prefer to switch phones every year, keeping up to date with whatever is on the market, locking myself into a 2 year term means in the long run I end up paying for a new phone in the future anyway or I have to keep with what I have which is incredibly boring.

04-12-2010, 01:16 AM	#51
Pwy9egVW Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	True, but they do have to cover the cost of providing you a voice / data network and it still works out cheaper. Say you get an iPhone 4 free on a 24 month contract at £45 per month that's £1,080. Take off the cost of the phone and that's £580 on the contract which is £24 per month for 900 cross network, anytime minutes, unlimited texts, 750mb data and unlimited wi-fi per month. It's still a much better deal than PAYG works out at over the same length of time. You can also drop your tariff down one slot per month after nine months with some networks. I started on £45 per month and I've dropped down to £35 per month now. But you are still bound to a 2 year contract, and this is the point most of the people talking about getting a contract phone are seemingly forgetting. Most if not all networks will bind you to that for that term, bar maybe a month prior if you continue to use them as a network. Say I get a phone, bind to a 2 year contract, I have to fill that term, or pay a massive fee to break it. I simply don't want to be bound to any contract, I want complete freedom to switch about if I feel like it. I prefer to switch phones every year, keeping up to date with whatever is on the market, locking myself into a 2 year term means in the long run I end up paying for a new phone in the future anyway or I have to keep with what I have which is incredibly boring.
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