Free Line Rental Mobile

Both 12 month free line rental and automatic cash back deals involve you getting money back on your so either way it is a win win situation. You just need to choose the right deal for you and that comes down to whether or not you are an organised person.

Nokia 1616, 100 minutes to any network and unlimited texts.

Tariff Name: 100 mins Unltd texts (18m), Network T-Mobile, 18 Month Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 3000 Free Text Messages, Nokia 1616, Free Mobile Phone, Total Savings £395, Total Cost After Discounts £-27

18 Month Contract, £395 Instant Cash Back, Monthly Cost £20, Avg Monthly Cost After Discounts: £-1.50

Samsung E1170, 100 minutes to any network and unlimited texts.

Tariff Name: 100 mins Unltd texts (18m), Network T-Mobile, 18 Month Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 3000 Free Text Messages, Samsung E1170, Free Mobile Phone, Total Savings £395, Total Cost After Discounts £-27

18 Month Contract, £395 Instant Cash Back, Monthly Cost £20, Avg Monthly Cost After Discounts: £-1.50

If you are the type of person who is incredibly organised and writes everything down in a diary, plans every minute of every day and is never late for deadlines, then a 12 month (or 18 or even 24 month) free line rental contract is for you.

In order to get your line rental completely free you need to send off the relevant paper work on time and correctly filled out each quarter (every three months). There is also a time bracket that the paper work has to arrive in, this is usually a week. Also, if you are going for a 12 month free line rental deal make sure you read the small print regarding what type of paper work they want you to end to them. They will want you to send bills but can be picky about what format you send them in. For example some mobile phone retailers demand the original bill but some will only accept a photocopy (incidentally, it is always a good idea to keep a photocopy yourself for your records).

The way 12 month free line rental deals work is that you pay them first, so say the deal is £15 a month, you pay that for the first 3 months and then at the end of that quarter, you send off all your bills and the money will be put back into your account in full. This means the mobile phone retailer (and remember it is the retailer that sets up these deals and not the network) doesn’t earn any money from the contract. In reality they can make quite a lot of money from these deals but they rely on you forgetting to mail off your forms and bills and therefore not claiming the money back. Some companies even offer the first 3 months free completely, meaning that by the time it comes to 6 months into your contract (the free 3 months and the 3 months you have paid), you will have forgotten about the contract and therefore forget to send the relevant paperwork off which therefore means that the mobile phone company gets to keep your money. 12 month free line rental deals can work in your favour and can be very beneficial but you need to know how to play the system right.

Automatic cash back deals however offer a guarantee of getting your money back, but not all of it. When you sign up to an automatic cash back deal you are agreeing to pay some of the original contract yourself. What this means in simple terms, is you are getting a phone contract half price. There are of course, some limitations to this. The contract will often feature not as many minutes and texts and a 12 month free line rental contract.

An average automatic cash back deal offers 100 minutes and 100 texts, although this can be more. Also, the handset that comes with the phone is often basic, so don’t expect a blackberry on one of these deals! The handset you will get will do all the basic needs of a phone, texts, calls, voicemails and many will do basic pictures. And automatic cash back deal is for you if you want a phone just for basic texts and calls and don’t want a sparkly model.