PAYG iPhone with normal contract

[Anonymous]

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but I have a standard O2 contract (i.e. not iPhone) with unlimited data. If I were to buy a PAYG iPhone 3GS and put my contract SIM card in there would it just work or would I have to do anything special?

The reason I ask is that, after calling O2 Customer Service to buy myself out of my existing contract, buy the iPhone and have to change to a new iPhone tariff would be a *lot* more money that just paying the £440 for a PAYG iPhone and keeping everything else as is!

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

I was wondering the exact same thing, I'td only be £220 to buy myself out of contract but I really dont like those iPhone tarris.

[adamtemp64]

Straight answer is yes

but you do not get visual voicemail and need to change the apn as here http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/settings.html

[Anonymous]

Swish! Thank you

One last question if you dont mind.

Would I have to activate it with the PAYG sim in or would I put my contract sim in straight away?

Thanks alot

[adamtemp64]

activate with any o2 3g sim ie your contract one
you might find this forum usefull it is iphone technical viewforum.php?f=3

and this apple site http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/how-to/# ... troduction

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much, you're a credit to the forum

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your response - exactly the information I needed.