Starting with the year 2005, the SIM Only Deals , continued to be the most sought after mobile phone deal in the UK mobile phone market place. Then for a brief period of two or three years, the contract mobile phones took over with a surfeit of Android-based smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, etc holding a strong grip on the customers mind and pockets. Then, again from 2008, it has been back to the good old SIM only deals.
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SIM only deals or the SIM only contracts (as they are also called) have panned out here in the UK in the past decade. More than anything else, the typical SIM only deal relieves the valued customer from being tied to a year long, or a 18 month or worse a 24 month long contract and instead bestows on them the freedom and flexibility to stick with their existing mobile phone handset and only buy a new smartphone device if the need really arises.
For the network service providers, the SIM only deals constitute their most fundamental service and are happy doling out the network service connection in the form of the SIM card at truly unbelievable prices. The customers are even otherwise having it very good with the concept of number portability very much on. This enables them to shift from one network carrier to the other without any major fuss, botheration or for that matter time delay. They can continue to use their existing mobile phone number even if they have changed their network service providers thrice over.
The customers though are needed to obtain what is known as the PAC (Porting Authorisation Code) from their existing network carrier and provide the same to the new service provider if they wish to continue to have the same number for themselves.
The network service operators also do not need to factor in the price of a new handset in the deal as they are not required to supply one to the customer.
Ofcom says that one fifth of all mobile phone deals are SIM only deals only!
Coming back to how popular the SIM only deals have become, as per the recent data findings of the official telecom regulatory body here, Ofcom, that a good one fifth of all mobile phone deals sold in the UK mobile phone market place in the year 2011 was a SIM only deal only.
O2, Orange, Three Mobile, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, are all the same by and large when it comes to SIM only deals. Go for it!
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