"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Sprite" <sue.kitchen@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:4qgp85FmujdmU1@individual.net
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>> Quite how you see it as your property bemuses me... the
>> handsets are subsidised. It becomes your property at the
>> end of the contract. Until then you are only 'borrowing'
>> it or 'renting' it or something like that. The phone is
>> Vodafone's property until the contract is completed,
>> which it will not be, hence, it is their property.
>
> I think you'll find that most contracts contain a clause that specifically
> excludes the handset itself from the contract, which is for network
> access/airtime. The phone is yours from day one. Why do you think that so
> many end up on eBay..?
>
> This does of course assume the contract is not ended early, as in this
> case, when different conditions may well apply. Read the small print.

I think I get the hang of this - rather than the phone being theirs, it is
yours *so long as the terms of the contract are fulfilled* - that's not the
case in which case Voda are within their rights to ask for either the phone
or the contract to be paid?

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Sue