How to Break Your Cell Phone Contract

My first cell phone was with AT&T, with a one-yr. contract. When the year was up, I was never called or asked to sign a new contract. I began receiving bills for $1500 one month, $2000 the next. I finally called them and was given a contract for $295/mo. for 3 cell phones. This seemed good until after a few months, I discovered Cingular. The same plan was $99. When I called to cancel, I was told some ridiculous amount would be necessary to cancel. I refused to pay and went with cingular. After two yrs., they sent a collection agency after me and when I went to court, they had already won. I never got a chance to present my side. I should have had a lawyer. Now Cingular has become AT&T and I hate it, but it is still the least expensive cell company. Since I am not under any contract, I am considering which service to use.

I have 2 lines with Sprint and both of the phones are junk. The battery covers won't stay on and the screens don't work. This means that the cameras on both phones are useless and the unlimited text messaging I'm paying for is also useless since you can't see anything on the screen. Even though I'm paying for equipment insurance every month, when I called to file a claim, I was told I would have to buy a new phone in order to have coverage. I have also tried several times to contact Sprint to find out when my contract expires so I can switch to a different company but no one will answer my call. One time I was put on hold for 33 minutes, another time it was 24 minutes. Apparently, Sprint's idea of customer service is to ignore their customers and hope they go away.

I had nextel for years and had somewhat good service then my phone went out. Traded in these phones for update and got the new Hybrid that is Sprintnextel. Have complained to them constantly since getting these phones. My son had his phone switched from this hybrid to his old regular sprint and it works perfectly when my 2 hybrids does not work. Contacted BBB and got no response. Complained to them and even got tech and he said that I should get new phones for there was something wrong but they still refuse to do anything. I have come to point that I am ready to tell them to shove it where the sun does not shine. Oh and the last time I talked to them the Supervisor told me Shove it and laughed. They are not going to do anything it should have been done in 30 days and back then they would not do anything either So any ideas of what to do.

My sister was with Suncom and when she moved to another town she got no reception in the majority of areas and the other area caused her phone to roam! well, this is what an insider at US cellular told her to do to end her contract without having to pay the $200 penalty of ending the 2 year contract early and CHEESE AND RICE IT WORKED! Whenever she was stepping out for hours at the time on the weeeknd, she would take her took her phone to her brother in laws house were she would be roaming. Then she would place a call to her house and her hubby would pick up the phone and sit it down. Her cell phone would be roaming on this call for about 3-4 hours everytime she did this on the weekend when her minutes were free. Well, after doing this for about 3 months straight Suncom notified her that they could no longer offer her service because of all the roaming she was doing and at first they started penalizing her by not allowing her to make changes to her plan and all kinds of other crap and when she kept on roaming they decided to teriminate her serivce w/o the $200 penalty since they ended the contract :) Since Suncom was paying for her roaming charges and she was costing them more money, they decided they was having it!

I have a contract with T-mobile which I believed was for 1 year, so according to this information my contract has already expired in may 2007. When I called T-mobile they told me that my contract is for 2 years. I bought my phone online and I cannot find any information saying how long my contract term really is. So now that T-mobile is giving me a hard time I am really tempted to do something that I wouldn't really like to do. When I bought my phone, it was actually a friend of mine who bought it for me because I had just moved to the US and I didn't have credit history, this friend moved out of the US and doesn't plan on coming back here so I am tempted to simply forget about t-mobile since the contract is under my friend's name and social security, the bill comes to my house and they have my email on file, I always paid the bill with my credit card but I never had automatic debit to my bank account. Do you think I would have problems under my name with T-mobile if I do that or the charges and collection would be under my friend's name and social? Thanks for replying.