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24 month Contract
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^^ouch! Only way to get out of a commitment like that would be if they changed terms of service, etc. Otherwise you're kinda outta luck, sorry mate.
Well, what phone do you have? I believe you could call them and explain that you dislike your phone. However, if this is you disliking the 3GS iPhone and you believe this is how you'll get a new iPhone then I would say you have another thing coming.
A 24 month contract is a 24 month contract. At times certain carriers will give you an upgrade early based on your calling plan and your payment history. It can be said that the lower the plan the less likely you are to see your 24 months turn into say 12 months. My 24 months has turned into 12 months before I lowered my plan. I cannot say what it would have done now because my contract has been up for 9 months.
A 24 month contract is a 24 month contract. At times certain carriers will give you an upgrade early based on your calling plan and your payment history. It can be said that the lower the plan the less likely you are to see your 24 months turn into say 12 months. My 24 months has turned into 12 months before I lowered my plan. I cannot say what it would have done now because my contract has been up for 9 months.
You're not even halfway in, you're extremely unlikely to get out this early.
rdowns may have been making a joke, but carriers have been known to drop people under certain circumstances. Do you have unlimited internet? If so, abuse it as much as you can by constantly downloading. Eventually they might decide that you're using too much and cut you off.
rdowns may have been making a joke, but carriers have been known to drop people under certain circumstances. Do you have unlimited internet? If so, abuse it as much as you can by constantly downloading. Eventually they might decide that you're using too much and cut you off.
Actually, there are quite a few ways they could do that. But either way, they're not nlr's paying customer so their dissatisfaction with him as a customer is positively irrelevant as long as he abides by the contract. His dissatisfaction with them as a service provider is a very different story.
You could buy a PAYG iPhone 4, it'll probably cost £450+ though. Whether or not you could change your contract is up to Vodafone. Committing insurance fraud is up to you, and not recommended.
Actually, this got me thinking.
If you set up your phone to, say, constantly download torrents or act as a web server or something and abused the crap out of your unlimited data plan, they might cut you off like Comcast does. However, they'd probably also ban you from using their service again in the future, and this would be kind of unethical of you.
Just a thought though.
Instead of making assumptions maybe you should ask me why I'm unhappy with my phone? Because its really slow comparing to my friends 9700 (same phone)
The only reason why I haven't claimed already is because you lose your unique bbm pin and contacts and I have tons.
The only reason why I haven't claimed already is because you lose your unique bbm pin and contacts and I have tons.