We are going to the UK for 3 weeks and would like to carry a cell phone. Any suggestions for the most economical process, i.e. buy v rent, buy here v there. thanks
Posted by
Virginia, USA
5842 posts
Or even easier ... buy both the phone and PAYG plan at Car Phone Warehouse. They are all over the UK. You can get both a phone and minutes for under 20 GBP.
Posted by
Denver, Colorado, USA
713 posts
I agree; just stop at a Carphone Warehouse store (they are all over the place in London and elsewhere). You can buy an unlocked phone with a SIM card loaded with plenty of minutes, for probably less than twenty or twenty-five bucks.
Last year I bought such a phone and SIM card at a CW store in London, for about fifteen pounds. The deal included not only a lot of prepaid talk time for the UK, but a big bonus bunch of international calling minutes which I used to call home a few times. I kept the phone, and when I went back to London last month just got a new SIM card for it (the original one had expired), and found that "topping it up" with ten pounds' worth of talk time was a snap.