Do You Really Need to Insure Your Cell Phone?

By Martin Smith

When you go shopping for a cellular phone it's nice to think that you are getting value for money. We know that we are getting the $400 phone for only $50 but we are signing a contract for one year or possibly two years in order to get this. The phone is actually subsidized by the service provider so over the period of the contract you are actually paying full price between your monthly charge and your phone calls.

Now when you were in your local store they will try to add some extras onto this for you. It may simply be a car charger or they may offer insurance for your cell phone. The idea behind ensuring your phone is to help pay the cost of replacing it if you happen to lose it or it breaks. Overall the cost of insuring is actually quite reasonable and may only be a couple of dollars per month's for the term of the plan. The majority of people that decide to go for this may never actually benefit but this is a great way for the cell phone providers to make extra money.

Like all types of insurance you need to check the terms and conditions of this before you decide to sign any type of contract. Lots of people assume that once they have their phone ensured that they are covert for all types of damage that may occur. The vast majority of these can be left disappointed.

If you have damaged your phone it may need to be prepared this cost will be covered as you have insured but there may be a deductible of $50 that could apply. This basically means that for any repair the first $50 would not be covert so if the cost is $100 you have to pay $50 up front and the insured cover will cover the rest. This is standard practice in home insurance that I have seen before so you need to have an understanding if this applies to your cellular phone also.

Some people of course are particularly hard on their phones and have had the misfortune of losing its, getting it stolen or easily damaged. For these type of people may be insurance is a benefit is however you do not have any of these problems or have had these things happened in the past you need to make sure that insurance is actually right for you. In some retail stores they can be very pushy in trying to sell this to you as an extra you're not obliged to take this or sign any contract. You need to make sure it is right for you and benefits you before any decisions are made.

Martin Smith is a writer providing advice on Android Cell Phone if you have time drop by his site for some tips and information.

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