Dont buy PAYG if you might want to unlock it for new network! Any way of not having to do that?

[UK_sparrow]

I cant believe you have to wait 12 months and then get charged £15! I wish I had known that before choosing this network!

Is there any way round that? And is it a year since you bought the phone or a year since that sim?

[Cleoriff]

@UK_sparrowIt's 12 months since you started using the phone (so it was registered on the network)

https://www.o2.co.uk/help/phones-sims-and-devices/unlocking-an-o2-mobile-to-use-on-a-different-netwo...

[MI5]

Borrow someone’s contract sim and use it in the phone for a day.
Once registered as a contract it will be free and immediate to get it unlocked.

[jonsie]

Most networks operate the same way when you buy a payandgo phone through them. Always buy from an independent as a general rule.

[UK_sparrow]

I must have been lucky, as free from Lebara and 3, so expected it to be.

[MI5]

Lebara don’t sell phones do they? And I’m pretty sure Three don’t lock theirs at all anymore.