When you sell the phone? Who wants a used cell phone with older technology
when they can get a new phone subsidized by Verizon. BTW, if you are not
going to change providers anyway, who cares about a contract?

Vito


"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in message
news:47826ede$0$13819$607ed4bc@cv.net...
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> News wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> LHA wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the cellular companies provided the service and support that
>>>> their customers desire and deserve, they would NOT need to lock us
>>>> in with long, expensive contracts. Why do we tolerate it?
>>>>
>>>> Discuss...
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Huh? I've been month to month for more than eight years.
>>
>> Yeah, but sooner or later you need a new phone. . . .
>>
> Yep. But I bought mine rather than lock into a contract. It cost me a
> couple
> of hundred dollars to be free of the yoke. I'll get much of it back if
> and
> when I sell the phone. I learned that awhile ago. Meantime, technology
> changes are happening too quickly these days for me to want to be locked
> in.
>
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