breach of contract?

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empouse

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Hello,
I am an Oregonian and just got something in the mail that stated that there is a new Area code overlay for 541 area code. Now I've been trying to get out of this contract for ages and this is the only tiny opening that I can see.
Is it possible? Can I tell them that it will be too inconvenient for me to type in the area code before the number I want to call.

Cheers
 
Verizon Wireless (as well as any other wireless carrier) is only required to let you out of contract for one of the following three reasons:


  1. You die (death certificate required)
  2. Drafted into military (verification required)
  3. You move out of a coverage area or Verizon stops providing coverage in your area. They require 5 different tests to verify that coverage in fact does not exist in that area.
Other than that, Verizon Wireless is not required to let you out of your contract.
 
The previous response is accurate. You don't have a leg to stand on.

The ability to dial local numbers by only dialing 7 digits is an increasingly diminishing feature, impacted by the sheer volume of phone numbers that have been assigned. As time goes on there will be fewer and fewer areas where 7 digit dialing will work. It is impacting all wireless carriers now, and soon even the local landline carriers will have to make everyone convert to dialing 10 digits. It's not something that Verizon Wireless or anyone else can change.

You will utterly fail trying to make the contention that it is a breach of contract, because their contacts have always included verbage like this:

"You agree we aren't liable for problems caused by you or a third party; by buildings, hills, network congestion, tunnels, weather or other things we don't control; or by any act of God."

Buck up, pal. Either ride out the contract, or pay the ETF and cancel at your will. Understand that when you sign contracts you are agreeing to abide by them for the duration of time they are to be in force, and ponder that commitment carefully before you sign them instead of thinking you can find a loophole after the fact. Because generally, there aren't any loopholes.
 
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