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PAYG Sim for min. 12 months or can I change provider any time?

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Hi everyone, I'm thinking about buying an iPhone 5s, but don't want any contracts and want an unlocked, sim-free one with a pay as you go sim. I just realised that, if I buy the pay as you go iPhone 5s from O2, it can only be unlocked 12 months after I buy it, which I don't want. If I buy the phone from a different shop and buy only the pay as you go sim card from O2 and put it into the unlocked phpne, am I bound to use that sim card for a minimum of 12 months as well before I can change profider/ sim cards, or can I do that any time? Say I don't like it or want to go with a different provider after a month, can I just take the sim out and put a different one in and it will work? Thank you very much in advance and happy new year!

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adamtemp64
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https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Apple-iOS-Devices-iPhone-iPad/Iphone-7-still-on-refresh-has-been-unloc... I thought I had posted about it before 

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Although (slightly different I know) still not eligible for O2 open. Why is this I wonder?

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7 is just not the 7+ I think
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@Cleoriff wrote:

Although (slightly different I know) still not eligible for O2 open. Why is this I wonder?


In my mind you should be, retired or not....but no one in the medical profession ever really retires do they!

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