'Free' Samsung Galaxy I9000 available at Econet for US $6000 over 2 years
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The phone, along with other phones, is being sold on contract, with the amount payable over 2 years in $250 monthly installments. The page doesn’t say what else you get in addition to the phone so we’re assuming it’s mobile broadband (MBB) data.
The going price for the phone at one of Zimbabwe’s most visible mobile retailers LM Cellphones is US $480 . If we subtract that amount, we are left with about $230 a month for mobile broadband. Again, MBB here is just an assumption. Now, if you check the Econet Mobile Broadband ‘On The Go’ tariffs page , you’ll see that the lowest In-bundle price per megabyte for data is 7.5 cents. The $230 will therefore buy you a little more than 3GB a month ‘on the house’.
So a safe assumption for now is that for $6,000 you will get a ‘free’ Galaxy I9000 phone and 3GB data a month for 2 years!
We tried contacting Econet to establish the facts and so far we haven’t received a response and the prices on the website remain unchanged. We’ll update this story once we get a response from them.
Source: Technology Zimbabwe