Asda Flogging £5 Mobile Phones April 28, 2008

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Things are getting even more cut-throat in the low-end phone market with Asda announcing that it’s going to sell mobile phones for just £5.

The Wal-Mart owned supermarket chain is going to flog 50,000 handsets for £5 when bought with a £10 top-up. The phones go on sale today from 9am and include four handsets from the likes of Nokia and Sagem. Asda is no stranger to flogging things really cheaply: remember the £9 DVD players and PS2s for £50?.

Peter Pritchard, ASDA Trading Director, says:

‘We think this latest offer is likely to get the best reception yet! When it came to deciding to sell the latest high quality phones at incredibly low prices to our customers, it wasn’t a tough call to make.

Shoppers are increasingly turning to Pay As you Go as a way of controlling their spending on mobile phones and this offer is exactly what is needed to help them do this.’

Despite having 50,000 up for grabs, I’d imagine these will go pretty fast.-Martin Lynch

Update: You don't need to buy a top up to get the £5 phones. Just pay your fiver and leave. [Thanks Andy].

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