Any advice re contract phones

[Charlee]

Hi i know there may not be an answer to this but i will ask incase there is a way round it.

We have to mobiles on contract, we are moving to NZ and WONT have a uk address or bank account anymore but three mobile wont take the monthly payments from NZ and they say we have to have a uk address and and b account? anyone know how i can get round it if there is away?

pay the contract upfront?

yeah we could do that but for both the phones its going to be well over £400 as they wont let us move the price plan down think were buggered!

why won't they let u move it down? do u have any relatives who would let u use their acc/address? then u guys put x amount in (althou then u'd have exch diffs. might be worht keeping ur £acc open till the contracts finished but changing the address to a relatives one.

looks like were going to have to pain though as we have to pay transfer charges from a NZ bank to UK one, but looks like we have no choice

just leave ur phones here and get new ones there (cheeky grin icon)

LOL if they wouldnt take me to court i would!

stac, still have to pay fro the contract thou - could u pass it over to a friend/relative? I know u can on orange.

Dont suppose anyone wants to take over our contracs do they

charlee, advertise the remainder of the contract on www.gumtree.com. It's a website full of ozzies kiwis and safas who are here temporarily and looking for things like short term contracts. Just make sure that you are allowed to change the name with your service provider.
Anyway, if that doesn't work, why don't you just keep you uk bank account open and set up online banking and cancel paper statements. It will make no difference if you stay registered at your old uk address.