I bought a phone on Ebay and asked for a 1-year contract, I think they gave me a 2-year instead, -- maybe I can fix it, but you are screwed no matter which carrier you use. I have very bad reception from Coingular and they won't even admit its true, so I am switching to Verizon.
Its a crazy business. on Thursday 09/13/2007 mike([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > If you got a second or third phone etc 6 months into the contract, you'd > probably suddenly have a two year contract upon adding the new phone. Good > luck. Telcos, cellular as well as land line are able to write laws by > themselves knowing our reps will just pass them along. Like Tom says, write > your rep, vote them out. > > Justice department just told FCC it should in essence allow AT$T to write > any laws dealing with net neutrality. One rep from justice described the > net neutrality debate analogous to the PO having higher rates for faster > service showing they either have no clue what the debate is about or don't > care. Probably both. > > I've seen people get out of contracts by roaming and making helluva lot of > calls...when roaming is free of course. Verizon will still have to pay the > third party. Start costing them money, probably the only way to get them to > notice you. > > Mike > > On 9/13/07, Rev. Stewart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well that is partly the problem. It seems that Verizon assumes all > > phones when you sign an agreement on the main line. > > > > I thought it was only on the main line not the subsidiary lines. (My > > number holds the contract, not the subsidiary numbers.) Not only > > that usually there is a penalty if you have bought a phone with them > > as they sell the phones at a loss hoping to get the money back out of > > you in the plan. But the phone I want to disconnect is not one I > > bought from them. > > > > I do not think they will want me bad mouthing them, but they were > > pretty snotty when I talked with them. Like to use legalese. > > > > I wonder what the initials FCC would say to them. > > > > Stewart > > > > > > At 08:03 PM 9/13/2007, you wrote: > > Stewart, While I only got a Verizon cell plan a couple of months ago, > > I remember having to go through a situation similar to yours, with > > anothe company. They wanted to penalize my (ex)fiance n' I for > > leaving the company when, we had already had the plan two years which > > is what the original agreement stated. I told them, I was prepared > > to take them to court for lying on the original agreement. That is > > when they backed down and, did not charge my (ex)fiance n' I for > > switching. > > > > >Christopher > > > > Rev. Stewart A. 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