if sprint coverage works for you in your area, you can transfer your nextel contract to sprint without paying the cancelation. just an option you may want to think about, I would never use Cingular and verzion just bothers me and T-mobile coverage sucks in my area. sprint coverage was always good in my area but the Customer serive used to suck as.s. don't know if it still does, been with nextel like 6 years now.