What is free line rental? Well, it is free line rental! You get a mobile phone completely free of charge, you get inclusive minutes and text messages as you would with a normal mobile contract, but, you can claim the cost of all your bills back from the supplier.

This is a kind of cash back incentive, almost revenue  sharing on the part of the retariler or shop that sells the phone.

Essentially, they offer to give part of their comission back to customers, but, they cannot do this for everyone!

Free line rental is a case of pleasing some of the people some of the time!

Phone stores cannot just give away free phones, if they did their business would not last long. So, instead they put in place barriers and pitfalls designed to stop people making a successful claim.

This means that most people who take out a free line rental contract do not actually get their money back, either because they are too lazy or forgetful, but, the minority of people that do enjoy the benefits of a cost free mobile with nothing to pay for the full 12 month duration of the contract.