New Tariffs are now on 3 Mobile, including mobile broadband, with revolutionary flexible price plans. Mix & Match tariffs gives the choice of flat rate price plans with the option to add as many minutes and texts as you want each month, and all include 300 minutes of free 3 to 3 calls to any other 3 customer in the UK.

With up to £40 cashback on contracts 3 are now also offering a great new cashback on Pay As You Go. A tidy £7.50 on every single sale!! That’s the best cash-back available on PAYG.

The reason they want to push Pay As You Go is because it’s becoming more and more popular. People are getting more money wise and don’t necessarily want to sign lengthy contracts while there’s a credit crunch going on.

It’s such a great product – Pay As You Go is the nice and simple way for people to keep in touch. Calls and texts are just 12p for landlines and mobiles, any time. No worries. In fact, it’s the best flat rate in the market.

Also, until the end of August 2008, our Flat 12 standard tariff includes calls and texts from the UK to India, Pakistan and Poland.

They’d also like to push stretching. Customers are really taking to Stretch 15 in particular, where you can talk and text till you burst.

There’s also a big advertising push, with a whopping £1.5 million being spent on press, radio, online and outdoor throughout August. It’s all around talk till you burst and text till you drop.

It really has all the benefits of a contract without the ties. Here’s just a reminder of the great benefits customers can get with their Top-ups.

• Free voicemail, even if you’ve run out of credit
• Free use of My3 to check your credit whenever you like
• Free text alerts when your Top-up is running low
• Free Windows Live Messenger
• Free Skype to Skype calls on all compatible handsets when you Top-up, valid 30 days
• Internet from just 50p a day

All new contract handsets will now be available to pre-order online and via telesales ONE WEEK before launch in the retail stores.

You can find out all about the phones and reserve them well before the launch. They will be shipped on the day of launch in the retail stores, so they really are getting them hot off the press.

This helps with any delivery issues you normally get with new phones around launch. And you still get the commission on those pre-order sales that are validated after the 14-day money back guarantee. Nice to know.

At the beginning of the month, there’s the launch of the Samsung U900 ‘Soul’. This smart new phone has lots of lovely features:

• Slim (12.9mm), stylish, stainless steel slider
• 5MP camera with autofocus, image stabiliser and face detection software
• New ‘Magic Touch’ navigation system
• 2.2” QVGA LCD
• Available in silver and pink

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