How To Keep Your Mobile Phone Safeguarded And Lower Your Expenses
Given how prevalent mobile phones have become in our everyday lives, it is only natural that mobile phone insurance would become a lucrative business for the insurance industry. Customers therefore need to decide for themselves whether they need to bother insuring their handsets. Before taking out a policy, there is one important fact that a customer should keep in mind.
After all, unlike other policies, coverage for handsets isn’t demographically determined. All policyholders are judged on an even playing field. The consequence of this is that the insurers who suffer no losses on their own policies are paying the costs of the ones who do claim on losses or damages.
A customer who has never had any problems with their mobile and isn’t prone to carelessly misplacing it will probably not benefit from having their phone covered. But how prudent you are with the safekeeping of your handset isn’t the only factor to consider. The type of deal a customer has is also an important consideration.
A phone owner who is under contract does not have the same freedom of manoeuvre that a PAYG (Pay As You Go) customer has. The PAYG phone owner who loses their handset or has it pilfered from them has lost both their handset and the cash they had topped-up for calls. A contracted phone owner is in a worse predicament as they not only no longer have their handset, but also still have to continue paying the contract for their lost item.
If you are careful with maintaining your handset, or are a PAYG customer, taking out a policy is likely unnecessary. If, however, you are a contract customer, and do have a prior history of bad luck with lost, broken or stolen handsets, getting cover would probably be a smart move. An insurance policy will cost less in the long run than a series of new phones would. A PAYG customer can simply look for a cheaper deal and are under no commitments to any service provider, but a contracted customer doesn’t have that luxury.
However, the sort of coverage you require may already be within your reach. If your have home insurance, you may be able to get coverage by exercising an “all risks” clause on your policy that will cover items of value that aren’t always within the insured premises. You will have to check if such coverage would entitle you to a replacement handset, however.
In summary, if you are going to get mobile phone insurance, you are better off getting a policy that specifically covers them. Just be sure that you really do need the cover. There is no point wasting money on unnecessary coverage.
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