Questions about a Canadian visiting the UK

[AnnieGun]

I have a friend from Canada who is coming to visit the UK for a few months and she has a few questions. She would like unlimited 5G on her phone, can she come to the UK and get an EE phone and simcard on a contract? If she isn't allowed to get a contract and has to do pay as you go, can she just buy an EE simcard and put it into her Canadian LG Velvet phone, will that work? Or is her only option to buy a phone and simcard once she's in the UK and do it as pay as you go? Thanks for the help.

[Kirigaya_Kazuto]

She can buy a sim on contract to use over here, EE do 30 day rolling contracts, which sounds like what she needs.

Jer phone will work fine, though it may not get 5G everywhere as I believe some frequency bands will be different

You can check on here: Will ZTE Axon 30 5G work in United Kingdom? (kimovil.com)

Just search her phone, vs the one I had bookmarked

[bristolian]

There's a few pitfalls here..

1: Taking out a pay-monthly contract will require some form of credit history.

2: What is the requirement for 5G specifically? 5G is only available on pay-monthly contracts, but is there anything your friend wants to do with her phone that she can't do on 4G?

3: Is your friend's phone unlocked to accept any network's SIM? If you're not sure, you will only know by trying a SIM from a network other than her own.

[AnnieGun]

She uses Zoom a lot on her phone to do video conferencing and the like, she'll need a very good upload speed for that. Would 4G be suitable for that, she just wants 5G as that's obviously going to be faster.

[bristolian]

4G is perfectly suitable for those video-based functions.

Any EE-PAYG SIM will have 4G service.

[Kirigaya_Kazuto]

5G isn’t always faster either