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How long can you keep your iPhone and not activate it?
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You can't get one and not have a 2 year contract. You can leave it unactivated for a million years, but you'll have started your contract. If I were you, I'd just wait until your Verizon contract is up to port your existing number over. How long is it until your Verizon contract is up?
My Verizon contract will expire early July and I was thinking ordering iPhone online and activate it myself.
You can if you pay the "no-commitment" $599/$699. Just say it's a gift for someone.
No, I will sign the 2-year contract. I just want to order an iPhone online and receive it via FedEx beforehand, then, activate it on the day my Verizon contract expires. But, if my 2-year contract starts on the day I purchase it online, there is no point of buying it early.
As far as I know, you activate it through iTunes once you receive it, at least buying through buyiphone.apple.com. They aren't going to activate a phone that's shipping through the mail, cutting off your other phone in the meantime.
I could be wrong, of course. Trying calling 1-800-MY-APPLE in the morning.
Yeah, definitely just port the number over once your Verizon contact expires. That's what I'd do.