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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The term free applies in regards to the monthly price - in that there are no additional costs on top of the advertised price for the laptop/phone
It is academic as to whether to you can get the same services cheaper without the netbook/phone - as the two prices are not referenced in the advertising
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Hmm. You see, I don't think it is academic (mathematic, maybe!), because taking a 1GB package with the laptop costs, in a very real way, £240 more over 24 months than
the same service taken over the same period without said laptop.
Indeed, by my own (perhaps, occasionally, a little too logical) common sense, it is academic as to whether the two prices are referenced together. The fact still remains that the two services exist, and the only real differences between them - excluding the laptop - are the contract length and monthly price.
I suppose the entire discussion about this is somewhat academic - it seems as if a committee of people much cleverer than I am, and therefore much more qualified to define something as logically common "sensical" have decided that this sort of arrangement is fair*, certainly not in any way misleading and above all legal. Who am I to argue?
Sam
* Not that I actually think that being able to spread the cost of a laptop/phone over 24/18/12 months is unfair - it's a good way of getting a new device and not paying much, if anything, upfront. I do struggle to think of it as being anything other than a form of credit, though, which is why I think it's slightly misleading...