Free Cell Phone Upgrades: How Do You Know If You Are Getting The Best Deal? By Rolanda Vang
Mobile phone upgrades are simple to do – if you know where and how to do it. See more here: Make it happen
A “mobile phone upgrade” is where an existing user of a network (eg T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange, O2, 3G, Virgin and so on), who has been with that network for about 1 yr since getting their last mobile phone, gets a new mobile phone from the network at a free, or low cost discount price, in return for agreeing to stay with that network for one more year, under a 12 month contract agreement. The client keeps his or her current mobile phone number, and stays with the same network. That is called a “mobile phone upgrade” – often it’s a free mobile phone upgrade!
To get the best offer for a free or low cost mobile phone upgrade, you have to understand this. The mobile phone networks pay a mobile phone dealer more for a new user (new mobile phone contract) than they do for a mobile phone upgrade customer. This odd situation has been the same for many years. The only network that seems to pay mobile phone dealers practically as much for an upgrade user as for a new free mobile phone user is Three (also called 3 or 3G). The other mobile phone networks merely don’t seem to value their current customers as much!
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The craziness of this situation is that it encourages you to be disloyal to your current network.
What does this mean to you? How are you going to get the best deal from knowing all this, so you can get a free mobile phone upgrade AND get other advantages? Read on …
The amount that a mobile phone supplier can give to you’ll depend upon how much money he is making. If he is making more cash from a ‘new’ mobile phone contract customer than for an upgrade user, then he will be able to give the ‘new’ mobile phone contract user a bigger discount or a free mobile phone or perhaps more!
Now, did you know that instead of upgrading your telephone on the same network (where you most likely will not get such an excellent deal or a free mobile phone and so on), you’ll be able to switch to a NEW and completely different network AND maintain your current mobile phone number? That is true.
Now, knowing that you may maintain your mobile phone number, and that you may usually get a better deal as a ‘new’ user on another network, what are you going to do?
You’ll be able to simply turn into a ‘new’ user on a different network … this new network then deals with you as a new user, provides you with all the free mobile phone bonuses and gifts, and so on, AND you keep your mobile phone number!
So by merely looking around at all the offers available to you on all the other networks
Before you’re taking the jump and switch to a different network for your free mobile phone upgrade, think about this …
Imagine you call your current network to inform them that you’re considering leaving them to switch to another mobile network. Typically, that person you speak to will be on a commission to maintain your business: ie they will earn a bit of cash if they can convince you to stay with that mobile phone network.This means that you should use this to your advantage.
Tell them that you have had an excellent offer from another network (and don’t lie – they will almost certainly know exactly what you could get with another network). Merely ask them if they can equal or better the deal offered by this other network.
If they can equal it, then it’s probably not worth the hassle of switching mobile phone networks and the paperwork. It is not an excessive amount of hassle to do the switch, but clearly it’s easier to stay with your current mobile phone network.
Free mobile phone upgrades could be obtained in this manner quite simply by understanding how the system works and how the money works in mobile phones and free mobile phone upgrades.
So next time, just ask your current mobile phone network if they are going to better the free mobile phone offer from another network.
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