I want to get a better cell contract than my current prepaid deal and I want an iPhone as well. Swisscom said "no", orange wanted a 500chf deposit. Is it worth it to try Sunrise? I went online to order and they don't even have an option for L permits. My work contrat is indefinite, I was just given an L because the allotment of B had been met. Should I bring my work contract. Just trying to decide if it's worth taking the time to go there.
Probably not worth the trouble. The people at the Sunrise shop don't give a rat's a** about anything. The ones who decide who gets a contract and who doesn't sit in the Sunrise tower - you'll never meet them and they'll never see your work contract.
My advice: stay with prepaid (it's cheaper anyway - Sunrise also has some data offers for prepaid customers) and get the iPhone SIM-free from Apple. I know that's expensive, but the SIM-free ones can be sold very easily again, so you won't lose the whole payment if you take good care of the device.
Once you get your B-permit, try again with Swisscom.
Buy a better iPhone. Get a Samsung Galaxy SII. It's essentially the iPhone (since Samsung made the internals for Apple) and it's Android!
Sorry, no idea about the rest of your points. I just have a thing about Apple, and proprietary software like iTunes!
I am on a B Permit so can't really help about the permit side though. Of course, it can't hurt to go and talk to them and see. You may find a helpful staff member. . . he wrote with no trace of irony whatsoever!
I don't know about Sunrise, but I know you can get a contract with Orange on an L permit. Just bring all your paperwork (registration form, work contract, work permit), and it shouldn't be a problem. I don't believe you need to pay a deposit or anything either. But I do think you won't be able to use the phone abroad for 3 months or so, until you've proven you pay your bills on time and in full. But you might be able to negotiate that.
I am on an L permit and have a contract with Orange. The staff in the shop seemed to think I'd need to put down a deposit but it was easy to order it online through Orange's website. Just tick the L permit option. Enjoy!
Sunrise flat out said no, so the hell with them. I did order online and then was told I had to pay a deposit. I think I will just stick with my prepaid. I just don't use it very much, so basically I would be getting a contract to get a new phone. But with the deposit, Im better off just buying an unlocked iPhone. Thanks.
When I got my own apartment a few years back and wanted DSL I tried Sunrise first (as the offer looked better at the time), but even though I signed all the contract stuff, after two months nothing had happened, thus I went back to the store and they 'lost the contract', after me nicely showing my copy that they signed they started calling up $management. After a bit they claimed that they could not deliver DSL to my apartment, thus I crossed the street to Swisscom, signed the contact and 3 days later a mechanic came by, he hooked up the phone line and voila, everything worked. I did have to pay a 500 CHF deposit but they put that in a bank account and after I think 2 years I got that back including interrest.
The prime reason btw for them asking for a deposit is because of various nice people who are foreign and called their home land a lot and then never payed the bills...
With Swisscom you pay more but at least the stuff works and when it breaks they send somebody over the same day to check and fix it.
Sim free iPhones are such a great thing. In the states, they are always sim locked (unless you buy the unlocked from Apple) and the companies almost never unlock them for you. Never been a fan of mobile companies.
ahm, nope. All iPhones sold by the mobile phone providers are locked. There are only very few places that sell iPhones unlocked: the Apple Stores (both brick-and-mortar and online) and some online-retailers that sell imported phones (careful with those on the warranty-side)