Early Upgrade question...

[Anonymous]

So I checked a few days ago to see when I was due an upgrade and to great surprise I discovered that I am being given the option to upgrade early.

The only problem is that out of the current crop of phones on offer directly from o2, none of them are hugely appealing - and there's no way in hell I'm paying £70 per month or thereabouts for an iPhone X (cough, cough, the bile just raised in my throat) or a Samsung S8/Note.  

The OnePlus 5T gets unveiled on Thursday which has some appeal, but the phones I'm most interested in are the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and the Google Pixel 2 XL, which only appear to be available via the Carphone Warehouse.  My question is, would I be able to end my contract early so that I could take advantage of one of the CpWh deals or would I have to pay the rest of my contract, which officially ends in March?  

[MI5 · Accepted solution]

If your MyO2 says you can upgrade now, you can do that anywhere, but, the early upgrade offers are usually when upgrading to refresh which is only available directly from O2.

[Cleoriff]

If you want to go somewhere else for the phone you want @Anonymous info here on cancelling your contract https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly-and-Pay-Go/How-To-Cancelling-Your-Contract-A-Guide/m-p/566774/highlight/true#M56526