What are the options of having a mobile phone in Scotland? Could I use my American cell phone there?

Question

I have Sprint as my carrier, and just wondered if that would work, and how expensive it would be...

Answer 1

my friend (family in greece, school in England) uses 2 different sim cards. 1 for each country. you don't need to buy a new phone, just a pay-as-you-go sim card with your number (they should do this for you, make it the same number as your old sim card)

Answer 2

Check with Sprint whether you can use it in the UK.

Otherwise phones in the UK are cheap to buy - you could get one and then use it as a pay-and-go to make locals calls.

Here are a couple of cell phone shops but there are loads of others:

http://www.phones4u.co.uk/

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/

For calling the US, you could then buy a long distance phone card which would make overseas calls really cheap.

Answer 3

depends you need tri-band to get contact with the USA + calling from other countries costs loads

Answer 4

No, you need at least a tri-band GSM phone to work in the US and Europe.  Sprint only works in the US...