Free Laptops for AOL Subscribers through Carphone Warehouse
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STOP PRESS! Carphone Warehouse / AOL is now also giving away free PlayStation 3's (PS3) as an alternative to the free laptop.
FORGET a free modem, subscribers to AOL's Broadband Wireless Plus packages are being given a free laptop in conjunction with Carphone Warehouse.
AOL, whose Broadband Wireless Plus package starts at £19.99 per month, is giving away a free HP Compaq 6720 Notebook to all new subscribers who sign up for the 24 month broadband service.
According to the suppliers Dell, the free laptop is worth around £450.
The offer is being run in conjunction with Carphone Warehouse, who own AOL, and users are expected to sign up to one of AOL's home phone packages too. While this is not compulsory, the monthly price of the package increases to £29.99 for those who take the broadband package on its own.
No catches
Bruce Stevens, Technology editor at broadband comparison site ChooseISP.co.uk said: "We've had a good look at this package and we're thrilled to see that it's the real deal. AOL really are giving away a free laptop along with a very good broadband package from a well-respected and highly reliable provider."
"There are no 'catches' so to speak, but you do have to commit to AOL for 24 months and if you want the £19.99 per month package, you'll need to sign up to AOL's PAYG Talk package too."
The compulsory AOL Talk package is proving to be the biggest stalling block for most potential customers as many will be using subscription-based telephone override services such as 18185.com. These services do not work on AOL lines.
However, non-subscription based override services (where you manually dial an 08 number to get cheaper calls) such as Telediscount will work.
The laptop being given away by AOL is a HP Compaq 6720s Notebook which comes with 2GB of memory, 160GB hard drive, a DVD drive, wireless card, media card and Windows Vista Home operating system.
Options to upgrade no longer needed
AOL used to offer customers the chance to upgrade their basic free laptop to a better spec'd model. Now they just give the better model as standard!
This is not the first time a free laptop has been given away to lure customers to sign up for a broadband deal. Broadband provider Orange did the same thing in the summer, but users had to sign up for the package in a PC World store.
"The Carphone Warehouse / AOL offer is the first time we've seen
a free laptop being given away for online signups," said Mr Stevens.
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