Use of iPhone 4 in overseas strictly with wifi

Hi all, new here and I did search the forum before this post. I have an iphone 4 that is supplied by my work who incidentally pay the bills. I will be doing some private international travel over the coming months and was wondering if I could make my iphone a 'wifi only device' by turning off data roaming and cellular data or is there no way of running the device for free?
Thanks in advance!

Here is the reply I got from O2. It looks like they were talking about turning Data Roaming off as opposed to using Airplane mode or switching Cellular Data off:
+Good morning David+
+Thanks for your email requesting more information on how to avoid data+
+charges while abroad.+
+David, the iPhone allows applications to use data in the background even+
+if you've switched of data. The email feature of the iPhone can use data+
+even when data is turned off. You may switch the email retrieval mode to+
+'Manual' rather than 'Automatic'. There are may other applications that+
+override the Data Roaming block.+
+The only way to completely stop roaming charges while abroad is to+
+delete the APN. To do that please follow the steps below:+
+- from your home screen tap settings+
+- tap general+
+- tap network+
+- tap cellular data network+
+- tap APN and either delete completely or delete co.uk so that the+
+settings are incomplete.+
+Once the settings have been changed your iPhone will no longer be able+
+to connect to idata.co.uk. When you return to the UK or want to access+
+internet again, simply repeat the steps above and re-enter the correct+
+APN, idata.co.uk.+
If I go abroad I will use the above method so I can use Wi-Fi when it's available and GPS and Bluetooth

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