To ask who is your mobile network provider and why

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Suddenly the world is my oyster with mobiles, I am leaving my network provider, buying myself an early exit and I can choose any network I want and to a degree any phone. So who are you with and why-and why would you avoid a particular network?
I like the look of 02, with Priority, Vodafone are cheaper on tarrifs though.

The boring bit- but so there is no drip feed on providers, after 19 years with Orange/EE and now with less than 6 months to go on a contract with a useless phone (screen sensitivity gone-and some random thing where if I connect to any WIFI the phone randomly texts and calls people and switches screens constantly) they want to charge me £201 to stay with them and upgrade or £214 to leave them- so I am going to leave them.

I know I am probably unreasonable to expect them to do anything for my loyalty, but to actually say "we don't want you to go, we want you to stay and pay £201 and choose one of our great phones and tarrifs" is a bit rich isn't it?

Paying up front for the phone seems to make it much more real as a purchase.

I think I am going for an S6 or S6 edge unlocked phone and will get a PAC code for my number.
Can anyone recommend a good phone supplier?

O2. Have been with them for years. Trying to remember the last time I wasn't and I think it was around 2004 when I was with T-Mobile! Switched to o2 because they offered the best bundles when I was a teenager using pay as you go. Stuck with them when I transferred to contract because they had the cheapest contract offers on iPhones and also have never experienced an issue with them. Priority can be decent occasionally as well. I went to a gig last year at Leeds o2 and it was free to put my coat in the cloakroom because I had priority! I was chuffed .

I am leaning towards O2 especially as the CPW would give me an Ipad Mini if I did

I know IABU for posting here but is who is on 3 mobile network and can recommend please?
I'm looking for a contract for my teen DD for Christmas and looks like £8pm saving if I go with 3 rather than O2.

Thanks for any insights!

EE PAYG

15/ month gets me unlimited calls, texts and 12Gb of data

I buy 2nd hand phones for around 200ish although current one is a brand new budget Samsung and it's excellent

Vodafone. Never been on any other network.

Smarty - they have several sim-only packages but mine is £5 a month for unlimited calls & texts, and 1Gb of data. They give you money back if you don't use all the data, and it's a month-by-month contract. They use 3 network so were affected by the 3 outage a few weeks ago, but otherwise fine.