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When purchasing a new mobile phone, the contract length you get can be of high importance. You may well be a person who likes a new phone each year and therefore wish for a 12 month contract. You may, however, be a person who once found a phone they like, prefer to stick with it and as such prefer longer contracts.
Benefit of Choosing a LONGER Mobile phone contract
Having a 24 month contract over a 12 month contract has one very large and very important benefit; it’s cheaper! Agreeing that you will pay a monthly fee over the period of 24 months rather than 12, allows the network to offer a lower monthly rate and a better tariff in most cases. Even so, 24 month contracts are not the most common choice.
Benefit of Choosing a SHORTER Mobile phone contract
The most popular choice of contract length is a 12 month, simply because a person is more willing to commit themself to a 12 month obligatory fee rather than a 24 month. In today’s current economic climate who can blame them. Unfortunately, networks have become aware of this preference, and have of course taken advantage of it, offering higher monthly fees for lower tariffs.
Does this mean that 12 month contracts have no benefits? No, it does not. After the first year is complete, the network that you were paying will not want to lose you as a customer and will attempt to offer you renewals, with a cheaper tariff and new handset. This is where you can now claim your benefit. You can negotiate with them a price lower than what you were paying to the point of it being cheaper than what you would have paid had you gone with a 24 month contract. At the end of the two years, you could have potentially paid less than what you would have paid with a 24 month contract, and got two phones in that period!
Conclusion
Of course, negotiating with a network is not an exact science, and so you may not end up getting a better contract. You may well, in fact, be unhappy with the service that your current network has offered and consesquently, not wish to renew. This is of course another benefit of a 12 month contract. Choosing the contract length for you is a difficult choice, if one thinks about it too much. It is a personal choice and one that can only really be answered by yourself from personal experience.
Remember, there are always 18 month contracts if you are indecisive!
If you have made up your mind, please take a look at our mobiles with free gifts with a certain contract length. It can be difficult to find the the mobile phone of your choice, with the free gift of your choice, as well as the contract length of your choice. Here at FreeGiftMobiles, we attempt to bring you the best, most diverse choice of options on the web!