I-phone abroad

siddaway

I really want to buy an I-phone but am planning to re-locate to Holland for 6-9 months in a few weeks time and am wondering what my options are to avoid enormous bills for cross country use.....

If i buy one on a UK contract for 12 or 18 months I will no doubt run up huge bills from having people call me from the UK (plus recieving emails etc) but will have a UK phone for when I come back.

Or I could buy a Dutch contract and maybe try and cancel the contract after 9 months? to then start a new contract in the UK, although this will probably cost a lot to call people back home....

does anyone have any experience or suggestions??

cheers

Andy

anonymousie

Either way round a contract phone will be expensive, you will have to buy out of any contract you don't want.

I'd suggest buy on P+G, use Simplicity in UK and dutch SIM only deal over there and swap as needed...

siddaway

hi, thanks for the reply and im sorry to be a numpty but what is P+G and what is simplicity?!

Andy

anonymousie

siddaway wrote: »

hi, thanks for the reply and im sorry to be a numpty but what is P+G and what is simplicity?!

Andy

P+G= pay and do ie NOT a contract phone. You pay up front for the phone, rather than paying for the hardware month by month via a contract. the P+G SIM is topped up with credit and this "counts down" as you use it.

SIM plicity is O2s pay monthly SIM- again not a contract but a month by month purchase of an amount of minutes/time/net or what ever combo you opt for. It is a good way of buying an amount of phone useage. THere is no tie in so it can just be stopped when you leave the UK (but moved to a true P+G tarrif so you can still recieve calls or make them, say when you are back in the UK temporarily).

iphones are so new and expensive that you can't realistically expect to get any "discount" for ending early- you'll be requird to pay the full amount for the life of the contract (except if you are allowed to drop to a lower tarriff part way through)