Living in europe,iPhone 5,what phone service to use?

My daughter just got stationed in Germany for the Army. How does she go about getting phone service. Everything I'm reading discusses travelling.
where you pay for US service and then get add-on's for use in europe which appears to be very expensive. I understand she will have to upgrade to iphone 5 to get quad GSM , but what carrier should she use? Remember she could be redeployed at any moment so any time contracts would be dubious.
help
curious John

To start with if your Daughter is on a posting she is best getting use of a local German carrier
sim
using a USA carrier on roaming in Germany will be prohibative over time
However she needs an iPhone that will work in US on return
Best solution I can see is an unlocked iPhone (only from Apple in US )
(She could buy in Germany but that iPhone 5 will not work on LTE (4G in US) )
GSM which will use a local German carrier sim
She will need to check options for sim only deals .In UK we have either PAYG or month to month contracts
germany is very similar in many aspects so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have similar
There will be many with a similar issue so she should talk to others in Base and also the PX

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