Iphone 5 and internet connection in UK?
I live in the UK. I must say first and foremost that I'm a novice when it comes to smartphone. I have a very old Nokia phone with a pay-as-you-go contract, ie. I do not pay any monthly contract charges. This is with EE, formally Orange. I have to pay for any calls or text messages I make and I pay for them monthly. I'm considering purchasing a iphone 5. What I would like to have advice on is, if I were to use the new iphone to surf the internet at home, where I have Wi-Fi, or at any location with Wi-Fi, eg Starbucks, McDonalds etc, will I be charged by EE for using the internet?
No, there are no data charges for using your own Wi-Fi or a free public Wi-Fi hotspot.
Just remember you have to set up each new Wi-Fi connection at it's first use, and with some public ones open a web page & agree conditions each time before it will properly switch to Wi-Fi.
The data connection symbol at the top of the phone screen shows 3G (or other data connection symbols such as E or o) while using phone network data, and the Wi-Fi 'wave' symbol when you have a working Wi-Fi connection.
If you don't have any data allowance at all on your phone SIM, you can turn off mobile data in the phone settings, so it never uses anything unless there's a Wi-Fi connection.
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