DUCATI8511 wrote: Not a very good argument...verizon makes no more money off of new customers than off me. If both are offered same discount on the same phone, where is additional revenue. I have been verizon wireless since they started service in Boston area. Service was always better than competition....not anymore. It makes no sense to lose 1 customer to gain another if both paying same for phone and monthly access charges. I receive a good discount for the major carriers, never made sense to change before. Being able to utilize a wider variety of phones might make sense now....

    The point is to steal customers from another network.  Which also forces them onto current plans.  My plan is ridiculously inexpensive.  If I give up my old plan to Get free phones, I don’t save a dime because of the increased service cost. 

     Also a give away to get a new customer is a write off.  A sale to existing customers is not.