Ditch Your Cell Phone Contract Early

Need to get out of your cell phone contract but can't afford the termination fee? If the service where you use your phone is spotty, such as at work, in your basement, in a far-flung field, make repeated complaints to customer service and then demand to be let go. Or look at your carrier's coverage map, find where it has none, and tell it you're moving there -- the company is obligated to release you if it can't offer service. If you can find it in your contract's fine print, another option is to wait for a rate increase on a part of your plan and claim it's a "materially adverse change" -- your carrier can't force you to stay once it charges you extra. [From: The Consumerist]





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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsNoAndThenApr 12th 2009 11:33AM
Damn, that is good to know, I was just thinking about this the other day...
Nero6Apr 13th 2009 3:59PM
This article is absolute B.S. Called AT&T today to cancel due to an increase in text messaging fees, was told they, "couldn't remove the early termination fee for anything other than death."
Cheryl FolstonApr 18th 2009 7:51PM
Wow, call them back and tell them you've died.
jonMay 20th 2009 6:28PM
Why wait for a trade? You can completely cancel your contract today at http://www.Cellbreaker.com and pay no early termination fees.
Jen MJun 20th 2009 5:02PM
I wasn't able to get out of paying the early termination fee but after paying I bought a Tracfone and discovered there new package called Straight Talk that gives me 1000 minutes, 1000 texts/MMS and 30 MB of data for $30 which is so cheap it was worth paying the stupid termination fee. Now I'm only paying 2 cents per minute and 1 cent for texts and my data is basically free.
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