PAYG Phone and contract Sim

rhythmboy

I've had a bit of a trawl to see if this simple question has been covered already (I'm sure it has) but couldn't see anything that explicity says yes or no. Please excuse me if it has been explained many times....

I have a contract with T-Mobile that I'm perfectly happy with but I want to change the phone. I don't need anything fancy so can I buy a PAYG T-Mobile phone and put my contract SIM in it?

From what I've gathered from other threads I think the answer is yes but it all seems a bit to cheap and easy for me to pick up a PAYG phone for £20 and put my contract SIM in it and it all to work! I'm assuming there must be a catch.

Thanks.

before_hollywood

yes you can, it is that easy.
basically when you get a contract phone, you get the latest all bells and whistles phone, on payg especially at the lower end, you don't, or if you do you pay £150-200+ for it. plus t-mobile often encourage you to buy your own prepay phone at full price rather than upgrade on contract

rhythmboy

Thanks for that. I've read a few bit and pieces about doing this but it's always appeared there were some issues with locked phones and so on. It never quite looked as simple as that but thank you for clarifying it. Having never had a PAYG phone, I'm assuming I can pick one up from somewhere without actually going through the whole 'signing up' process - or is that done automatically? I'm refering to the offers of say a phone for £20 when you buy £1o airtime. Sorry to appear to dumb but I've had contact for years and don't go for the latest, cool phone. I actually want one with less on it but that does what I want!

thesaint

'Locked' phones are 'Locked' to whichever network it is locked to, so a locked T-mobile phone will accept any T-mobile sim, not a specific sim card(Although I hear 3 sometimes glue their sims in).