changing plans before contract ends

[AC]

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Hello everybody:

I know the question has been asked, but I searched and never found the
answer to this:

Can I change my Local Plan to a National Plan without extending my contract
2 years? The Verizon website "promises" that you can do that, unless it is a
promotion. So the real question is: Is there a National plan I can switch
that is not a promotional plan? I looked in the Verizon website, and all
plans are "promotion".

I am 1 1/2 years into my 2 year plan, and I do not want to extent 2 more
years from now. Even 1 year would be OK, but not 2. By the way, I do need to
switch to a National Plan because of travel requirements.

Thanks!
SB

 

[spyglass]

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I'm one year into a two year plan and will be switching to the new
promotional AC plan. I was told by CS that they will add one more year onto
my current plan since the new plans are "promo" plans. Hope this helps.

"AC" <sacbunt@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:35uoh6F4rafvkU1@individual.net...
> Hello everybody:
>
> I know the question has been asked, but I searched and never found the
> answer to this:
>
> Can I change my Local Plan to a National Plan without extending my
> contract 2 years? The Verizon website "promises" that you can do that,
> unless it is a promotion. So the real question is: Is there a National
> plan I can switch that is not a promotional plan? I looked in the Verizon
> website, and all plans are "promotion".
>
> I am 1 1/2 years into my 2 year plan, and I do not want to extent 2 more
> years from now. Even 1 year would be OK, but not 2. By the way, I do need
> to switch to a National Plan because of travel requirements.
>
> Thanks!
> SB
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.verizon (More info?)

Spyglass wrote:
> I'm one year into a two year plan and will be switching to the new
> promotional AC plan. I was told by CS that they will add one more year onto
> my current plan since the new plans are "promo" plans. Hope this helps.

In the past anyway, switching plans never added onto the end of your
current plan; it just reset the start date of a new contract to today.
When I took the newest AC promo (with the share lines for $9.99) a few
days ago, the CSR said that my contract would only be extended by one
month, since I took the "old" promo only last month. Usually, these
promos only required a one-year contract, so if you were less than a
year into a two-year contract, there was no extension. But this may have
changed, may depend on region, yadda, yadda. I am in the Northern
California are, if it matters.

 

[AC]

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.verizon (More info?)

Status:

I called Verizon to switch to the new AC plan (from the Local Plan I have
now). The customer service guy said that my contract would be extended for 2
years from today. I asked why, and he said that it was because it was a
promo plan. So I asked him to tell me of the plans I could switch that were
not promo because I didn't want to extend my contract for 2 more years (mine
is 5 months from ending). He said he didn't have any. I said, how about one
year extension? He agreed, and switched me to the promo plan with one year
extension only. I guess everything is negotiable. Thanks.


"CharlesH" <hoch@exemplary.invalid> wrote in message
news:68FKd.8812$8Z1.1405@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> Spyglass wrote:
>> I'm one year into a two year plan and will be switching to the new
>> promotional AC plan. I was told by CS that they will add one more year
>> onto my current plan since the new plans are "promo" plans. Hope this
>> helps.
>
> In the past anyway, switching plans never added onto the end of your
> current plan; it just reset the start date of a new contract to today.
> When I took the newest AC promo (with the share lines for $9.99) a few
> days ago, the CSR said that my contract would only be extended by one
> month, since I took the "old" promo only last month. Usually, these promos
> only required a one-year contract, so if you were less than a year into a
> two-year contract, there was no extension. But this may have changed, may
> depend on region, yadda, yadda. I am in the Northern California are, if it
> matters.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.verizon (More info?)

No. Not negotiable. He was plain wrong. The promo plan
requires at least a 1 year commitment. As far as I know the
only thing VZW has going that requires a 2 year commitment
is New-Any-2, the additional reduction in price on a new
phone and, if you are establishing service, the additional
reduction on the price of activation.

-Quick

AC wrote:
> Status:
>
> I called Verizon to switch to the new AC plan (from the
> Local Plan I have now). The customer service guy said
> that my contract would be extended for 2 years from
> today. I asked why, and he said that it was because it
> was a promo plan. So I asked him to tell me of the plans
> I could switch that were not promo because I didn't want
> to extend my contract for 2 more years (mine is 5 months
> from ending). He said he didn't have any. I said, how
> about one year extension? He agreed, and switched me to
> the promo plan with one year extension only. I guess
> everything is negotiable. Thanks.
>
>
> "CharlesH" <hoch@exemplary.invalid> wrote in message
> news:68FKd.8812$8Z1.1405@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>> Spyglass wrote:
>>> I'm one year into a two year plan and will be switching
>>> to the new promotional AC plan. I was told by CS that
>>> they will add one more year onto my current plan since
>>> the new plans are "promo" plans. Hope this helps.
>>
>> In the past anyway, switching plans never added onto the
>> end of your current plan; it just reset the start date
>> of a new contract to today. When I took the newest AC
>> promo (with the share lines for $9.99) a few days ago,
>> the CSR said that my contract would only be extended by
>> one month, since I took the "old" promo only last month.
>> Usually, these promos only required a one-year contract,
>> so if you were less than a year into a two-year
>> contract, there was no extension. But this may have
>> changed, may depend on region, yadda, yadda. I am in the
>> Northern California are, if it matters.