Two ways of buy mobile phones in the United Kindom
In Britain, There are two ways to buy mobile phones, you can choose sign a contract or choose pay as you go. Pay as you go basically is not necessarily associated with the sim card, you can just buy the Top-up card, when your mobile phone run out of the credit.
Pay as you go is relatively more expensive, for example the O2 company’s Top-up card, the price is range from 2 Pence per minute to 25 Pence per minute; if you use the O2nbsp;sim cardnbsp;to call another phone, it spends 40 pence per minute. Pay as you go advantage is you can buy as much as you want, it just depends on your own demands without any contract.
Contract means you need to sign a contract with the provider, the contract is generally for 12 months, according to the contract, you need to pay the rent every month. In your choice of tariff, you have a certain limit of free time. For example, Vodafone offers 200 minutes free talk for 30 pounds service. But you can use the 200 minutes any time in any network. More than 200 minutesnbsp;part you have to pay it buy yourself.
The benefits of sign a contract is that the mobile phone is very cheap, some mobile phone are free. The phone call price is much cheaper than pay as you go. As just launched the 3G mobile phone, you just need to pay 35 pounds per month for 750 minutes free calls in any network,The disadvantage is that at least you have to sign a contract by 12 months, even if you do not want to have it anymore. According to the contract, you have to pay it every month until the end of the contract. In addition, it does not mean everyone who wants to sign the contract, they can do it.nbsp;Provider usually check your bank statement first. For example, if the overseas students do not have the credit history, they are not allowed to sign a contract. But different mobile phone retailers have their own way of sale, some will give the overseas students some other special offers.
