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Free Contract phones at last

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  • 06-03-2005 12:21pm
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    JTMan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭


    At Last it is now possible to get free phones on contract in Ireland. This is standard practice in the UK.

    Meteor have reduced almost all their bill paid phone prices to free:
    http://www.meteor.ie/makethemove/ourphones.html

    While I noticed Vodafone have some of their 3G phones on sale for free in some of their stores at the moment ( on the higher tarrifs) and CPW have some phones for free on O2.

    Hopefully it is only a matter of time now before all bill paid phones are free on contract like the UK.


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    #2
    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    I'm pretty sure that phones on contracts often were free, a couple of years ago. I definitely remember getting a free contract phone off Digifone i'd say about six years ago.


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    tk123
    Registered Users Posts: 14,045 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Yeah eth0_ is right!! Digi did that when they launched years ago!


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    damnyanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Still fairly bad in comparision to the UK. They give some pretty nice phones out for free :)


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    #5
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Yes but the UK has a much bigger market and much more comptetition. It's a duopoly here. Let's say Vodafone are charging 100e for a phone. Why would o2 bother selling it free when it could just sell it at 80 and get the sales anyway?
    Also sometimes when CPW tries to advertise and sell bill phones for free, they are told by the networks they're not allowed do this.


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