Due upgrade but need help!

Lizard_Lady

I currently have a samsung note 3, im due a upgrade in november. Im paying £28 a month at the moment and id like to keep it around that price. If i upgrade through o2 to the note 4 its going to cost £38 a month. But if i start a new contract through mobiles.co.uk for the note 4, its only £27.50 a month, but thats on o2.

Can i cancel my current contract when the time comes and take the new one out with the same provider ? And will i be able to keep my number too?

Any help with this would be great!

DCFC79

Try asking 02 if they would match the mobiles.co.uk, worse they say is no.

Cycrow

There shouldn't be a problem taking on a new contract with the same provider. Keeping the number might be tricky however. Some networks wont let you transfer a number from another account with them. So you may have to transfer it to another network first, then back to o2.

Also, if you plan to do that, best to check when the current contract expires, the upgrade date may be earlier.

Lizard_Lady

My upgrade is on 17th November or I can pay £42 now to upgrade. I don't mind waiting but I like to look ahead so I know what I'm doing when it finally comes to it. Before with previous contracts I've cancelled them on gone to different networks but O2 is the best network I've been on so far.
I just don't understand why it's so expensive to upgrade but not to take a new contract out! The price difference is ridiculous

Cycrow

The price different is not down to the upgrade being expensive, its down to the cheaper one being from a 3rd party. 3rd party sellers often use part of their commission to reduce the price, they also source their phones differently, and can get them cheaper. You will probably find if you got a new contract direct from 02 it'll be the same price as the upgrade is

SeduLOUs

Alternatively the phone can be bought outright for £479.99 from Carphone Warehouse (possibly cheaper elsewhere), which equates to £20 a month over 24 months.

Add on a cheap sim-only tariff (your price suggests you are getting a 500GB 4G tariff): for £7.50 with Giff Gaff (which uses the O2 network anyway) and you've got the phone for effectively £27.50 a month with no contract.

If you'd rather stay with O2 (but have a contract), they do a 12 month sim only tariff with 500GB for £11.47 a month, meaning you get the phone for £31.47 per month, but you are only contracted for the £11 airtime and only for 12 months.

mobilejunkie

The Mobiles.co offer may well involve claiming cashback. I do this all the time (don't do anything else) but if this is the case make sure you know how it all works beforehand and follow all the groundrules (which you can find IF you do proper research).

Obviously_the_best

I think the best you could do is the link below.
http://www.smartphonecompany.co.uk/contract-mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-note-4-black

There's a deal there for around £29 before cashback, £26 after, with Vodafone to include the same as the £27.50 deal you saw, including 1GB of 4G data and plenty of calls and texts. That would not only save you £1 per month, but simply changing networks would allow you to simply get a PAC and transfer your number.

Alternatively, ask O2 to leave them, then say you'll stay if they match the above deal.