Originally Posted By: JBjorgen
Also, remember that with prepaid you can bring your own unlocked phone (with many carriers).


I went the other way for skiing: rather than take my smartphone on the slopes (where it might get broken, and the battery live would suck even more than it already does), I bought a PAYG Nokia 100 and put my contract SIM in it. The battery lasted the entire trip on one charge, and still had about 30% left when I got home.
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-- roger