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Over the past few years mobile phone costs have come down, whilst the price of mobile contracts sold by the network providers has stayed pretty well unaltered (although you now get more inclusive minutes and text messages|(but you can get more free airtime having said that, you do get more free text messages and minutes than you once didThis means that the cost of a mobile is comparatively less than it was when compared against the overall cost of the phone contract. At one time cell phone retailers would give away free mobile handsets as an incentive for customers to purchase a contract. In the past some retailers would even charge for the handset on top of the contract price. Mobile phones were very expensive, and often beingconsidered a luxury product or status symbol. These days with more widespread use and resulting economies of scale even the best cell phones are quite cheap.

This presents a bit of a dilemma for mobile retailers who are trying to sell mobile phone packages in terms of incentives offered to the customer. The result of this has been an increase in the number of deals with incentives on offer, such as mobile phones with free broadband dongles, mobile phones a free television, cell phones including instant cash back, and especially mobile phones with free laptops.

Televisons are amongst the more recent products to be added to the line up of free gifts obtainable with cellphones. Just a one or two years back, the idea of being able to get a free 30″ telivision free with a cellular telephone would have seemed ridiculous. But, there have been substantive changes in the retail sector for televisions that have made this possible.

The technology used in the manufacture of|to produce|to manufacturealtered hugely through the last one or two years resulting in the introduction of LCD and HD televisions, and 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 TV 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.