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ASA Rule Against Carphone
Nov 24th, 2013 at 5:08pm
 
The ASA have told Carphone Warehouse to ensure that where the cost of a phone was included in the package price it was described as "inclusive" rather than "free".

Full details here http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2013/11/The-Carphone-Warehouse-Ltd/S...
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Reply #1 - Nov 24th, 2013 at 7:41pm
 
hopefully this will stop others from claiming mobiles are "free" with their tariff when they are most likely not and haven't been for a very long time.

With some contracts (notably newest iphones) it can be cheaper to buy the phone on it's own sim-free and then get a 12month sim only contract.
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Reply #2 - Nov 25th, 2013 at 11:28am
 
bbb_uk wrote on Nov 24th, 2013 at 7:41pm:
hopefully this will stop others from claiming mobiles are "free" with their tariff when they are most likely not and haven't been for a very long time.


I doubt it, there are a lot of companies that have been told to stop describing 0845 as "local", but it has not stopped others from continuing to do so.

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Reply #3 - Nov 25th, 2013 at 1:19pm
 
I suppose the correct terminology will never be used unless ofcom do something about it "I DOUBT THEY WILL"
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Reply #4 - Nov 29th, 2013 at 1:48am
 
A number of posts are missing from this thread and will need to be re-posted.
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