Can you get any good deals on 12m contract with plenty of free mins & text? I was thinking of going onto T-mobile flext 35 which gives £120 worth of credit to use on calls & texts every month (20p/min & 10p/text so 600 mins or 1200 text or any combination). It's £35/mo with the obligatory free phone which I'll be selling to offset some of the line rental as I have a brand new sim-free phone (Nokia E65 funnily enough - it's a great phone, seems far more responsive than the N73 it's replacing even though they're same OS and same processor AFAIK).
Basically I don't need a "free" phone but since there don't seem to be any deals where you're not effectively paying for one anyway I'll just take it and sell it, the better ones will get up to £150 on flea bay even locked, which is over 4 months worth of line rental.
PS I will never take an 18 month contract, if they ever stop doing 12 month contracts I'll be going onto pre-pay and using VOIP at every possible opportunity to avoid the extortionate call costs of pre-pay!
Cheers
Paul.