Not many people know this in the UK but did you know you could have a totally free contract mobile phone for 12 months on a 12-month contract? No I am not joking, there are no tricks or cons here, and the only condition is that the rental is paid per month but then claimed back by redemption over the period of the year.

There are several mobile deals around nowadays that when you claim back you rental will in effect give you a free mobile phone. Free rental and in most cases free talk time, and free texts.

You might be thinking the phones are from the Ark, well not true although they are not the latest models. For example you can currently get this deal with a Sony Ericsson K700i, when the latest model is the K750i. This is still a modern phone that would set you back some money if you bought it as a pay as you go phone and certainly not discontinued. The mobile phone companies or contract companies have obvious done their sums and decided that making money from your internal calls and that some owners will go over their free minutes threshold would pay for the cost of the phone.

I would imagine that large stocks of unsold phones also might bring these deals into action too. I have been studying these deals for a few months now and phones ell out come back then update again then come back. So you need to act quickly if there is a phone that suits you. You cant complain at the price as free is about as good as it gets. There is a particular LG phone that comes with 500 free cross net minutes and 250 texts at time of writing, you might want to get rid of your home phone with deals like these. Anyway the message is this, take your time when looking for your next mobile phone deal and if you are prepared to have phone that is 6 months to 12 months old in the fashion stakes then you could also have a phone totally free for 12 months.