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AC - 28 Jan 2005 12:12 GMT

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

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Spyglass - 28 Jan 2005 13:48 GMT

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.

> Hello everybody:
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> Thanks!
> SB

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CharlesH - 29 Jan 2005 05:26 GMT

> 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.

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AC - 29 Jan 2005 16:20 GMT

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.

>> 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
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> depend on region, yadda, yadda. I am in the Northern California are, if it
> matters.

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Quick - 30 Jan 2005 06:56 GMT

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

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>> changed, may depend on region, yadda, yadda. I am in the
>> Northern California are, if it matters.

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