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Over the last couple of years mobile phone costs have come down, whilst the cost of contracts offered by the network providers has remained pretty well unaltered (although you now get more inclusive inclusive minutes and messages|(but you can get more free minutes these days, you are able to get more free texts and minutes than you used toThis means the price of a cell phone is proportionally lower than it used to be when compared to the total cost of the mobile phone contract. At one time cell phone retailers would give away free mobile handsets by way of an inducement for customers to take out a contract. Some retailers would actually charge a fee for the mobile handset in addition to the price of the contract. Cell phones were very expensive, and often beingseen as a premium product or status symbol. These days with more widespread use and resulting economies of scale even the best mobile phones are available for reasonable prices.

Strangely this causes a bit of a dilemma for mobile phone retailers who are trying to market cell phone deals in terms of incentives to offer the customer. The result has been an increase in the number of different deals with incentives, such as cell phones with a free broadband dongle, cell phones with fee TV sets, mobile phones with automatic cash-back, and most popular of all mobile phones with free laptops.

TV’s are one of the newer products added to the line up of free items to be bundled with cellphones. Just a a couple of years back, the idea of being able to obtain a free 26inch flat screen television free with a cellular phone would have seemed ridiculous. However, we have witnessed sizeable changes in the market for television systems that make this workable.

The technology used in the manufacture of|to produce|to manufacturechanged dramatically during the last two or three years with the dominance of LCD and HD television sets, as well as the the move toward digital transmission. This has mean that large numbers of consumers have upgraded their old televisions. High sales volumes have lead to rapid price reductions of LCD televisions, which had been prohibitively expensive when first launched.

This increase in demand for new televisions, coupled with their relatively low cost has made them a very attractive incentive for potential mobile phone customers. There are a lot of people “thinking” about changing their television for a superior model. If one of these people is in the market for a new mobile phone and sees one of these incentivised mobile phone free television deals it can be a very powerful incentive to buy.

As with any incentivised mobile phone deal, you need to understand the true value of what you are getting, so, compare the value of other incentivised deals to make sure the value of the television you are being offered is comparable to the value of other free gifts on offer. In particular look at the instant cashback deals on offer, and see how much you can pick up a television for from a cheap online retailer. It may be the case that you could actually get a better deal by taking cashback from the retailer and buying the television yourself.