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I am hoping someone from customer service can help resolve this issue. About a month ago I began to have problems with my iPhone 4s, which I purchased new in Feb 2014 from Verizon Wireless. The problems involved the following: cellular data could not be accessed at all (wifi worked fine), texts were being received by my phone 24-48 hours after being sent, voice mails would not show up when recorded by the caller (one day I had 12 voicemails download all at once on my phone). My husband called Verizon for technical assistance. After an hour on the phone with tech assistance the issue was still not resolved. She (the tech assistant) had asked what type of phone we had (we told her it was an iPhone 4s), and after no success with any of the troubleshooting she recommended we set the phone back to factory settings. This also did not work, so then she asked us to download the latest OS upgrade. After that was done, the phone not only still had the original problems, but it also did not have any call or text service available. At this point, she recommended we just take the phone into a Verizon Wireless store to have it looked at. When we entered the store and asked what the problem was, we were told that upgrades on "older" model phones often resulted in the problem we were having (meaning the no call/text service available). After speaking with a Verizon Wireless representative, we were told that the iPhone 4s should not have had the upgrade, and that they were sorry but there was nothing they could do except to offer us an upgrade to a newer phone (at full price!) with another contract! We were incredulous. The VZW tech should have known better than to tell us to upgrade the OS on the phone since it is apparently common knowledge that this problem occurs on phones that are "older" models (three different persons in the store told us this). We aren't even done with our 2 year contract, which ends on Feb 8, 2016. We asked if we could break the contract since the phone no longer works and get the upgrade now. No, they said they were sorry but there was nothing they could do. Either pay full price for a new phone now and extend the contract, or pay $150 to break the contract now and lose the phone number and upgrade opportunity, or pay for three months of service we can't use because the phone does not work anymore (they actually suggested we just get a cheap flip phone while paying for the rest of the contract period). Excuse me, but my phone did make calls and texts BEFORE VZW told us to upgrade the OS! So VZW is responsible for making our phone incapable of using call/text service, but they are not willing to work with us at all. It is ridiculous that we should be expected to pay for a service we cannot use now. I do not understand the inflexibility--we are more than willing to stay with Verizon, sign another contract, but we simply ask for the upgrade NOW instead of 3 months from now. Even the manager at this store would not work with us. We would like this resolved in a fair manner, please!!