Graham reports, “Now a Verizon Wireless customer, she’s exploring a range of options, including trying to wrestle with Verizon to let her out of her contract early, using one of the new online swap services to dump the remaining months of the contract, or even just paying the $175 early-termination fee. ‘I just switched from a Dell to an Apple laptop and love the Mac lifestyle,’ says Sanghvi, 22, a recent graduate of New York University. ‘I never go anywhere without my iPod and cellphone. Now, I’ll only have to bring one device with me.'”
“Like Sanghvi, Atlanta software customer service manager Nate Mansfield is ready to dump his Verizon service with a year remaining on his contract, even though he’s perfectly satisfied with it,” Graham reports. “He’s got iPhone fever, though he’s never seen the phone in person.”
MacDailyNews Take: People were also perfectly satisfied with horses until the automobile was invented.
Graham continues, “Consumers are turning to blogs and websites to chat up the iPhone and trade tips on whether they can get out of an existing contract to sign with Cingular.”
“‘People are desperately looking for ways to cancel their service so they can get the iPhone,’ says Meghann Marco, associate editor of The Consumerist website. ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.’ Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research, thinks many consumers will switch to Cingular for the iPhone but says most will simply pay an early-termination fee or wait out their contracts,” Graham reports.
More in the full article including tips on getting out of contracts here.
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