Lower plan (ride out the contract), change of responsibility, Get a share plan and let someone (friend or family member) use it, suspend it (I don't know VZW policy on that), sell the phone to help pay off ETF if you cancel, any of those might work ???

If you lower the plan it will renew the contract than your worse off than you are now, if you suspend the account all that does is put it on hold temporarily

hmmm well it was worth a shot lol

Dying probably would work.

-way

Contract renewal is not necesary when changing a pp, either if its increasing or decreasing minues.

yes it is

A customer can change to a plan with in their pp guide lines and not extend the contract. Contract is only extended when a promo is accepted. If im on amc 500 0504 pp, I can change to amc 800 0504 and not extend my contract. I'm staying with in the 0504 pp's.

schnozejt is right here. I have done it and that is how it works. Depending on what plan you are on when you change minutes. IF the promo is different then what you have, you have to sign a year contract to change your minutes.

As far as I am concerned, this is an area that verizon misleads it's customers big time. They tell you that you can change your minutes on your plan anytime you want to, but, they forget to tell you that if the promo is different, you have to resign a contract. It makes me wander why verizon is always so concerned about keeping their customers under contract? IF the service is good, they dont need a contract.

Why cant verizon let the customer change the minutes on their plan without changing the promo? ...
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ok, I was just assuming that he was on the older plans, he probably is not on the AMS Choice 2 plan, so if he did change it it would renew his contract becuase his plans are not offered anymore, sorry for any confusion

There is a specific inactive pricing guideline. A customer is grandfathered into their pp and they can change just the minutes itself without changing any other parameters of the plan and without accepting any new promos.

Make the other person pay it if he wants a SideKick so badly? 🙄

PS, wasn't T-Mobile considering pulling those off the market for security issues? Whatever happened with that?

We all got a nice talking-to about VIP account security... 🙄

Oh lord the "security" thing rears it's ugly head once more lol...

From what I understand, (and I could be wrong- I just never heard a final verdict for sure) Paris lost the phone, and did not report it. Someone found it, and because the device is able to e-mail and transmit data via the internet that's how a lot of it got posted. There was one other version I heard which was someone found her phone number, and used it to access her T-Mobile.com account and sidekick desktop interface by guessing an easy to answer question when the "forgot password" question/feature was used. That has since been removed, and if you forget your password, it's now sent to your phone.

lower the plan is an option--keep in mind that if a new promo is accepted then it will extend the contract, if no promos are accepted then no contract extension. The customer agreement specificaly stipulates that a customer can change their plan whenever at no EXTRA charge.

Suspension-- in this specific instance it would be considered a voluntary suspend. A voluntary suspend has a one time suspend fee of $15, its suspended for a maximum of 90 days, and it extends the contract for how ever long you have it suspended for. 2 voluntary suspends are alloted per year and the cost of the plan is not charged for while the line is being suspended

I have a question for you.

It sounds like a person can change the calling minutes on their plan without accecpting a new promo, is this true?

I have always been told that since there is a new promo out, I have to take that and sign a new contract.

Yes it is. Look at your calling plan description on your bill. The plan description will say for example americas choice 500 $49.99 0504. The last four #s represent when the calling plan was created. A new example for a new calling would say americas choice II 450 $39.99 0205. If you're on a 0504 calling plan and you switch to a 0205 calling plan then your contract will extend, but you if you switch to 0504 plan then your contract will not extend.

I have always been told that those rate plans are not in the billing system anymore, that they are phased out, I recently switched from my 1000 49.99 plan when I went out of state for the Hurricanes last year to an Am Chc plan for the month, when I came back I was not allowed to go back to my plan becasue it was not offered anymore, I had to go with 800 for the same price, My acct manager even looked into it for me and there was nothing she could do either, any ideas?

Whenever anyone changes their calling plan they get a confirmation package in the mail confimring the change. The package specificly stipulates that you have 30 days from the date of the package to change back to your old plan. Therefore if you change your calling plan from an inactive plan to a current plan you have 30days from the date of the package to change back to that inactive plan.

schnozejt said:
Whenever anyone changes their calling plan they get a confirmation package in the mail confimring the change. The package specificly stipulates that you have 30 days from the date of the package to change back to your old plan. Therefore if you change your calling plan from an inactive plan to a current plan you have 30days from the date of the package to change back to that inactive plan.

Does that go for grandfathered plans, too? If so, that's pretty neat

Yes, this is the policy in the west area a maybe nationwide (wyoming west). I beleive its a nationwide policy, but dont quote me on it.

I know that applies to current planes in my market (SEast)but I dont think that applies to grandfathered ones where I am at, about 85% sure