An Introduction To Buying Contract Mobile Phones | The Communication Blog

Monday, September 14, 2009

An Introduction To Buying Contract Mobile Phones

By Ricky Patrick

Buying contract mobile phones are very viable alternative in many cases. There are a number of reasons why you might want to go for a contract over a normal pay as you go scheme. It is mostly because you save money this way but there is a bit more to it than that and this article will give you an introduction on things to look out for and things to consider.

Firstly, the most obvious benefit is the fact that you can usually get your phone for free. If it is not free, then it will be heavily subsidized by the monthly fees which you will pay for the contract. However, this does not work like alone where you pay higher amounts of APR.

If you have been looking around for the perfect phone for you, you may well have come across a perfect telephone only to find that it is prohibitively expensive. These days, there are telephones on the market which have the same functionality is a five year old laptop computer. Quite amazing, some of these things you can watch videos on, have GPS and wireless Internet and of course a high quality camera.

However, such phones often cost an enormous amount of money. If you want to buy them without a SIM card, you are typically looking at several hundred dollars at least in order to get the phone that you want. For most of us, we just don't have this sort of money to spend on a mobile phone.

However, the price you pay per month does not just include the subsidise phone charge. It will include a certain number of text messages and calls that you can send per month. For example, your contract may cost you forty dollars per month but without you might get unlimited text messages. Unlimited text messages means that you will probably save a lot of money if you send a lot of texts. In this respect, getting a contract regardless of the phone you get with it, can be a lot cheaper than have pay-as-you go.

However, this is not quite like getting alone. You don't pay any interest on it and the amount of money you pay per month gives you a lot more than just the phone itself anyway. For example, you will often get unlimited text messages, which will actually save you a lot of money if you send a lot of SMSs.

Having the convenience of what is basically a bit like a laptop computer in your pocket, with regards to the latest phones, is highly advantageous, especially for business people. However, as stated before, it is virtually impossible for most people to spend seven or eight hundred dollars on the very latest mobile phone one off.

Some are the higher end mobile phones which come with wireless Internet and 3G will also give you a certain monthly limit of free Internet. This is highly useful if you're always on the road and want to be able to have full Internet access wherever you can get a normal mobile phone signal. Of course wireless itself is always free, since it will connect to your Home Wireless hub.

What's more, while you will still have to pay for the contract for its duration which is normally eighteen to twenty four months, you can get the phone unlocked in most cases if you want to use it abroad with a foreign SIM card. So, a contract can be made to suit just about anyone.

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