I only use my phone very little but my cars inormataion system runs Apple I bought phone Iphone5 so that I could drive safely hands-free (as I'm disabled) and I have only ever used pay as you go, and yes you have to pay up front but atleast you avoid being ripped off every month, (os so I thought...silly me) and I soon learnt about the micro sim and network lock in to 02, ,but it does not end there, t5hey continue to rip us off by taking a £1 everytime I open my phone, and they demand your account details or you can't register or do anything with your Ludicrously expensive IPHONE 5, but then 02 demands the same your account details and make it almost impossible to not get riupped off as you navigate network and phone, and as a disabled person (head injury) working out all the stuff that is hidden in the long legal and general Blurb that is foisted on you ,and the writing is almost impossible to read, (yes I should have read) but hey it's just a phone and if you only use it when you have to , what can go wrong !!!!!
Right then' First of all controlled myself and was given a free chat (but only to get you to sign up for other bolt on's) which if you laid out a lot of money to make sure you will be safe in always having a phone that works.
Sorry the gist of what I'm saying is that navigating these new phones and netwok lock in's only leaves a very large hole in your bank balance and if your suffering financially then your phone is just another expense you do not need.
But as I now have it I would like to avoid the hidden little gem's that some spiv managed to sneak into the contract , this little gem makes millions from people like me before we manage to work out what not to do ,only to be told you have to switch it on to do anything, after a long, long chat with some supposed live person who told me to switch it off,.
Anyway anyone else been led by the nose into this trap of IPHONE and 02 service that only wants to get money from your bank every month, and who put supposed live person to apologise for ripping you off ,and does not explain that you can't use any network but O2, but they will gladly steal your money every month, but hey they are the best network in the market.
Seriously how does someone like myself avoid being further ripped off through my ignorance (disability) around not being able to retrieve information unless I repeat it a thousand times, but no amount of repeating can get me an O2 network, from home, or be allowed by 02 to access other networks , like say my home one.
Please excuse my initial sarcastical post to the forum It's just that I've spent so many hours trying to get my iphone working on my home network and get my financial pay as you go sorted out, (thats another one' pay as you go' thats a laugh, they want you to top up every month or else) Sorry I'm just trying to avoid paying more and more for a service I will hardly use, any advice please
