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bigjohn Supreme Member Offline Posts: 2,316 Gender:	ASA Rule Against Carphone Nov 24^th, 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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bbb_uk Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2,041	Re: ASA Rule Against Carphone Reply #1 - Nov 24^th, 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 25^th, 2013 at 11:28am

bbb_uk wrote on Nov 24^th, 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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bazzerfewi Supreme Member Offline Baz Posts: 580 Barnsley Gender:	Re: ASA Rule Against Carphone Reply #3 - Nov 25^th, 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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Ian G Senior Member Offline Posts: 276 Gender:	Re: ASA Rule Against Carphone Reply #4 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 1:48am A number of posts are missing from this thread and will need to be re-posted.
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