Going to United Kingdom in a couple days.?

No American cellphone will work in the UK anyway unless it's tri-band or quad-band because North America uses totally different radio wavebands for it from the rest of the world (LOL you have to be different, don't you!)

The four big mobile phone companies in the UK are Vodafone, O2, Orange and T-Mobile. Any others are just small enough to ignore (rather like our banks: the "big four" are Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and NatWest and you can forget the rest.)

Go to any UK town and you will find a shop for at least one of those, or a Carphone Warehouse which covers the lot. So there is no point giving you a location. My own Vodafone cellphone is the minimal kind because I only want it to talk and text - if I want to take photos, I use a CAMERA for god's sake (maybe it's my age that makes me feel like this - I'm 45) and it cost me £20 plus "pay as you talk" charges. I got that from just going into a Vodafone shop and buying it. You can do the same.

I've given you all the names so you can google them. There really isn't much in it - I regularly investigate if I should change networks and always end up deciding not to bother.

Just out of interest and because I'm feeling friendly - T-Mobile is actually owned by the national German phone company.. "T" stands for "Telefon", the German spelling of telephone. Go to Germany and you see the same logo on any public telephone booth.

A phone store like the 'carphone warehouse' sell mobile phones for £30-£40 I believe. It will be a hunk of crap, but not too bad if you are only in England for a short while.

If you are going to be in the UK longer than you can always get a more expensive phone. The main mobile providers in the Uk are O2, Three, Orange, T-mobile, and Vodafone (who own Verizon).

If you have a tri- or quad-band phone, it'll be cheaper and easier to get a standalone SIM which you can slot into your phone. Any phone shop - there'll be several on any main shopping street - will sell you a pay-as-you-go SIM which you can pre-load with cash for phone calls, then top up in shops and ATMs.

You could always get a SIM card from somewhere over there and swap it out. My parents and I have T-Mobile and that's what we did on several trips. Check out the AT&T website to find their international store locations.

it particularly is beautiful right here. each and all of the blossom is out, and it particularly is rather warm - observed a suntan question at right here the day gone by and that i think of everyone ought to get a suntan in the present day. i wish you have a solid trip too. i'm finding out of the window and want i did no longer have plenty artwork. And diverse concerns.

There are loads of places selling dirt cheap mobiles in England. You'll get one for about a tenner form Asda, Tesco, Argos etc Something like this: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5...

Any reasonable sized Tesco. £10 phone.. it will only make calls. £10 top and you will get £20 free credit for a month.

Just pretend its the 1980s and dont take one with you,you might think youve lost your mind ,but after a couple of hours you will be O.K !

just get a 10 quid phone from a cheap, crappy phone shop and then scrap it when you leave

Go to any of these, they will sort your problems out:

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbs=plc...