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Unfortunately, Budone, you're the one who's wrong here. brian823, you absolutely *can* do what you want (reactivate the line with a new number, fulfill the remainder of the contract, then cancel once the contract is complete). However, most representatives do not know how to do this. They have to call their credit team and have the credit team manually reactivate the line with a new number, set the contract to the remaining duration, and credit the ETF. It *is* their policy to do this upon request, but they seem to be awful at actually following that policy. Tell the rep to look up the policy for "Reactivating a Line After the Number Has Been Ported"

Sounds like you don't have an ISIS-capable sim - Verizon uses a special SIM for ISIS that provides an NFC secure element that's under their control. If you're on an employee account I have no idea how to order one, but if you're just on a consumer account I imagine customer service can probably order the ISIS SIM.

It can be done for free by visiting a CORPORATE store - the store you visited is an "indirect" store, or "authorized retailer". VzW doesn't charge for sim cards OR sim activation, but third party stores like the one you visited often do. It's basically a scam since they're charging a fee to type 20 digits into a computer and click "ok". If you don't have a corporate store anywhere near you, you can also call Customer Service and request a microSIM card be shipped to you. CS can be reached at 1 800 922 0204. This is also free, but obviously you have to wait for shipping.

1) You could take your number and assume liability of it, which will transfer it into an account with your name/social, on a currently-offered plan of your choice, and retain whatever contract (or lack thereof) you currently have. If you're standard upgrade eligible now, you'll still be standard upgrade eligible after the assumption of liability. If not, you'll still have to wait for your upgrade date to get a discounted phone regardless of whether you assume liability or not. 2) You'll have to pick from their currently-offered calling plans. 3) They decided to change their plan offerings for new customers. Existing customers can stay grandfathered on the previous plans or switch, at their preference.

The only Android phone that has this functionality, on ANY carrier, without voiding your warranty, is the Evo 3D. The best you're going to get is hiding the icons via a third-party launcher such as ADW.

Your unlock doesn't go away when you come back. It's once a year as in you can't get a new global phone every month and unlock them all. The unlock is permanent. To be more clear, when you unlock the SIM card slot, all you're doing is enabling the ability to use another carrier's SIM card. After you do that you can swap sim cards whenever you want. http://community.vzw.com/t5/DROID-2-by-Motorola/Unlocking-Droid-2-Global/m-p/365596/message-uid/365596#U365596 Post 7 has a VzW rep confirming this information. Apparently it's every 10 months, not every year.