My phone contract is up.

[cjard]

funny, what securespark reported about 24 months total cost of ownership being cheaper if youbuy the phone offline and get a sim only deal... ive ever found that (though I do that myself). e.g. getting an iphone 5s plus unlimited everything including calls and data allowance, insurance etc for 38 a month from voda was impossible to replicate cheaper as components..

what tickles me about phone stuff, I know people who regularly spend around 250 quid a month on their lunch, agonise over how expensive a 40 quid a month phone is.. halving that line rental wouldn't even be 10% of one of their 3 squares..

perspective

 

[securespark]

Take a 32GB iphone 5s from Amazon (£365), add a Vodaphone SIM only unlimited calls, texts and 10GB data for £27.20 per month.

That equals £1017.18 over 24 months, or £42.38 per month. CPW sell the same package pay monthly for £50 per month.

Yes, you might want to add insurance, but my household insurance covers mobiles, even out of the house and even if you bought a specific package, it would still beat that price. OK, not by a load, but most deals save a lot more. It's just that you can't get Apple stuff for such a big discount on the grey market as you can Android.

If you swapped from Voda to a different network, you could save loads more: as said before, Vectone sell an unlimited SIM for a tenner a month. That's £25.21 per month: halving the CPW contract cost.

 

[cjard]

Probably should have mentionEs this was back in sep13 when the 5s was just out.. And it included vidaphone passport which Allowed free calls and data while roaming.

I should also add that I've never actually gone for a contract phone and I still use a Nokia n900 from ebay for 80 quid and an O2 sim only..

Though I see where you're coming from, I do find that if you want a brand spanking new phone and a good deal on minutes to go with it, getting it on contract in the past has worked out better. I've come to regard the contracts as a sort of mobile phone loan with the added bonus that they're chucking in minutes and texts. These things are worth very little to the network but quite a bit more to the consumer