3 August 2007
Orange Broadband customers are to be offered a deal which may seem too good to be true - a free laptop.
When signing up to a two-year broadband contract with the provider, customers are offered a laptop worth 300 which, as it seems too good to be true, may well be just that.
Independent switching and comparison website uSwitch.com has issued a caution against customers rushing in to such deals: "Before being lured by the freebies on offer we urge consumers to take service and speed into consideration to avoid future disappointment with their service," said Steve Weller, Head of Communications Services at uSwitch.
However Mr Weller concedes that, for some, the offers represent absolute value for money, in which a consumer will effectively pay for the laptop over the two-year period, but will receive free broadband.
"For those consumers in need of a new laptop or those people signing up to broadband for the first time, these deals represent great value for money.
"At a cost of 337.29 over two years, Orange Broadband customers get a laptop worth 300. This effectively means that their broadband service will only cost them a little over 37 across two years.
"Later this year AOL will offer customers a 500 laptop at a cost of just 479.76 over two years, which again offers fantastic value," he added.
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