Contract Phones

[TomN]

hey up just want some info from contract users. I wanting to get a contract phone but i want to know is after the 12 month or 18 months contract do the company renew the contract for you again or will it be that and after I can just put a PAYGO sim card and off I go?

Company I'm going to go with is Orange BTW.

[Synergy]

hey up just want some info from contract users. I wanting to get a contract phone but i want to know is after the 12 month or 18 months contract do the company renew the contract for you again or will it be that and after I can just put a PAYGO sim card and off I go?

Company I'm going to go with is Orange BTW.

im with vodaphone and in past experience once your contract is up you get a choise of a few things

1. they can change your simcard to pay as you go for you so you have the same number etc

2. they can re-new your contract by giving you a new phone but still the same price plan maybe the odd tweak on it.

3 they can update your price plan giving you abetter deal than usual but you use the same phone.

[Danny]

Im on o2 and the contract just continues until you phone them telling them you wish to cancel it. They dont even inform me when im due for a free upgrade

[Mark W]

Same here. After the 12-18month contract is up, you just carry on on a monthly basis, meaning you just give them a month to cancel your setup. Oh, by the way - when you come to change to pay-as-you-go, tell them you're leaving for a better tariff from another phone company. Make up the tariff details, and you will be offered a better deal by Orange or whoever you're with. Just had that happen with us with o2 - all f**kin' good.

[TomN]

yeah wanting to go with orange becase of the student deal at £19 and orange wednesday and it works out to be £228 by 12 months so it's like the cost if i would buy the phone on PAYG but including minutes and texts . Thanks mark thats what i wanted to know wheather you have to tell them you want to cancel.

[oakley]

you can cancel your contract whenever mate!!!

[Tomm]

you can cancel your contract whenever mate!!!

No, you can't. 12 month contract is minimum 12 months.

[TomN]

Thought you had to seek out the whole 12 months or 18 months before you can cancel it.

[poopipe]

Thought you had to seek out the whole 12 months or 18 months before you can cancel it.

sort of, they'll let you cancel before the end of the term but make you pay the rest of the line rental of the entire term.

orange will happily let you switch the contract over to pay as you go when it finishes. - with the same number and everything - orange are lovely

[Fish-Finger-er]

2 other techniques used to get better phones for free. carphone warehouse do a insurance plan, which covers contract cancellations. so take out an 18 month contract on the phone you want. after 6, u can cancel it, pay ur 25 fee, and the insurance covers the cost of the line rental, think you can only do it twice in a 5 year period with them. but hey , by the time u done it twice, ull of outgrown having up to date phones, stopped being a student and have proper money to get the phone you want, or i should imagine another company will have similar insurance deals.

also with many companies, can select a decent tariff costing say 30 quid a month, on an 18 month deal, get a mint phone, then after 6 months knock it down to a 12 quid tariff.

either way, in may started my contact. w550i(which was the phone i wanted), 1000 off peak same network/landline minutes. 25 off peak x net minutes, and 100 texts. costs me 1.75 a month, for the 12 months of my contract.