
Originally Posted by
eyezpy
I have never heard that any operator would do a discount on a iPhone, I think mainly because they pay a lot to Apple to have the iPhone. Having said that, Tesco direct are trying to get into mobile market it seems and have some good prices for iPhone on a 12th month contract! None of the 18-24m rubbish when your phone is still only covered for 1yr.
I thought how early you can upgrade depends on what your current contract is. On my O2 18m £45 only allows me to upgrade early 1 month early for free. O2 had an early upgrade program this year when the iPhone 4 came out which means you can pay off remaining of your contract at £20 each month. On 24m contract I think I would be able to upgrade 3 month early for free.
On other phones I had in the past I was always able to get it for free when renewing my contract or/and get discount on the tariff when my tariff is about £35 a month, not on the iPhone though.