Iphone 6

[Anonymous]

What would the price of the IPhone 6 be on contract? I was hoping to maybe get a £20 or £30 contract and don't want to pay anymore than £100 for the phone.

[Anonymous]

It is annoying that o2 charge £40 a month for what I get on pay as you go for £15.

If I do get a contract could I use my £36 of savings to pay for the phone or even pay part of the contract?

[L_W_Ward · Accepted solution]

All O2 refresh tarrifs are split into two parts. Airtime and Phone Plan. 

Essentailly its like O2 give you the phone on credit, 0%. Each month you pay part of your phone back and your airtime balance. EG a £38pm tarrif could be £20 off the phone amount owed, £18 per month for your minutes, data and texts. 

Essentially this is what all contracts are but the bonus of this. When the iPhone 6s plus something else come out in a year, and you want to upgrade, all you have to do is pay off the amount remaining off the phone. NOT the remaining months airtime payments. On a normal tarrif you would need to pay off the remaining phone balance AND the remaining months airtime payments. 

I've done this loads of times when upgrading. Its great. 

[L_W_Ward]

Well the extra money per month has to go towards the phone you got on contract. Sadly I'm not sure about that as I'm only a O2 customer. I would call up O2 CS and ask them.

[Anonymous]

ok thank you.

[Anonymous]

If you've saved rewards from topping up then yes you can use that against the cost of a phone.

[Anonymous]

Link ref Rewards http://www.o2.co.uk/shop/paygotopup/10backontopups

[MI5]

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@Anonymous wrote:

It is annoying that o2 charge £40 a month for what I get on pay as you go for £15.

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But you have to buy your own phone.

The contract includes a phone payment too.

[Anonymous]

I'd say you have some leeway negotiating a better contract over the phone especially if you have been with O2 for a number of years. They'll want to keep you as a customer and cashback websites such as quidco offer for example £100 cashback for new vodafone contracts.

I'd say you could easily knock £5/ month off a contract or agree to double your data allowance for example. Thoughts?

[MI5]

It's always worth a try but no promises, esp at the time of a new iPhone launch.
If you are looking for a deal on a 5c or 5s you have more chance than a 6.....

[jonsie]

There are usually no iphone launch deals other than early upgrades.