Free Gifts with Mobile Phones Not a New Trend

All you need to do is include a new mobile phone handset in your festive shopping list and the chances are very bright that you will be bringing home a new gift along with the handset bought.The network service providers ensure this. Free gifts with mobile phones is not a new trend that has come up this season. Hardly. It is not that it is the festive season during which the network carreirs who are operating here – O2, Orange, 3 Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile ably supported by a virtual army of dealers, retailers, telecom companies and even small one shop vendors – lay out their best foot forward during December every year in terms of the most lucrative of mobile phone offers and schemes.

And still more offers and schemes. All kinds and shapes of mobile phone offers that include those with free gifts and those without any have already beginning to clutter up the market place everywhere you go in the UK. Free calling minutes, free text messages, internet data allowances, instant cash back offers, monthly rental waivers and the ultimate offer of  free gift in the form of a 41 inch HD television set, laptop, notebook, nintendo wii, nintendo DSI, playstation, Xbox 360, digital camera device, DVD player the list of choices is actually endless,.

As far as the network carrier or the dealer selling the mobile phone handsets are concerned, the issue is not what Free 42 tv with mobile phone they are giving away.It is rather how many handsets are actually getting sold. They do so. According to one particular industry feedback, nearly 37% of all mobile phone device sales in the UK take place during the festive season in December every year only. The sales pitch will touch its peak around Christmas and later slowly start losing momentum towards the impending arrival of the New Year.

The phone deals with free gifts is a marketing strategy that the network service providers are compelled to indulge in because of the rather stiff and getting stiffer by the day competition prevailing in the industry here. It is actually a question of survival for them actually. And nothing else.And buyers howsoever excited they are ought to realise that there are no such things as free lunches in ther real world. The network have made their calculations and estimates and ensured that they will not be endind up losers in the bargain.