subject: Sim Only Deals - Available With All Leading Service Providers [print this page] The demand for mobile phones is ever increasing and everyone is looking for ways to get the latest smartphones, with the most advanced features, at the cheapest possible rates. Sensing this as the need of the hour, several network providers and retailers have come up with certain mobile phone deals, with the help of which you can get the l;latest as well as the upcoming mobile phones of the leading manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry at real affordable rates.
There are three types of deals, viz. Contract, pay as you go and SIM free, out of which the contract deals and Pay as you go deals are covered by the networks. These include locked phones which can be used with only one network. If you wish to switch to another network, with these phones, it is not quite easy. You will have to buy a deal with the network of your choice, for this purpose. The SIM free deals are free of this limitation as you can switch over to any network of your choice by simply changing the SIM.
The SIM can be bought separately, with the sim only of leading service providers. The SIM only deals are also available as pay as you go and contract. There is, however, no signed contract involved with the contract SIM only deals, like the contract mobile phone deals. The main difference between contract and pay as you go SIM only deals remain in the payment modes. In the contract deals, you need to pay a fixed amount, every month, to the service provider. This amount is payable even if you are not using much of the services. However, in the Pay as you go deals, you have to pay only according to the services used by you. With the contract SIM only deals, you can win many exciting incentives like FREE line rentals, FREE connection, FREE Xbox 360 4GB + 2 games and much more.