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All my cell phone experts, come in please

As many of you know, my parents are going through a separation right now. Right now, the three of us are on a family plan and mom really wants to get dad off of the plan but he just re-signed his contract and it would cost $300 to cancel it. My line's contract is up next month and I had told them before that I was planning on getting on a family plan with DH.

So here's the thing: Mom right now only gets unemployment and SSI so I really don't want her paying for a phone that she hardly uses anyway. My job offers discounted plans through Verizon (that we're currently with) and AT&T (that DH is with) and I can get a family plan through either one. I was throwing around the idea of me and mom getting on a family plan under my name through my work discount and seeing if Verizon will let Dad switch his line over to an individual plan without paying a cancellation fee.

Any of you had any luck or no luck with doing that? I do plan on running it by my mom and calling Verizon tomorrow to see if they will even do it but I wanted to know if anyone else had any experience with turning a family plan into individual lines and what you did to make it happen or what problems you had.

Re: All my cell phone experts, come in please

  • Switching from a family plan to an individual plan?  No.  But, my mom, grandmother and I were on a family plan when I was growing up.  When DH and I wanted to switch to our own family plan, we just needed to have my mom's permission (as she was the account "owner") for me to leave the family plan- but my mom and grandmother were still a family plan so it didn't change their status.  If your dad is on AT&T (for example), you may have better luck staying with them and trying to get off the plan- explain the situation but obviously not in detail as you pay get some "sympathy"- than trying to get off the plan and switching to Verizon for the whole customer satisfaction aspect. 
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