They are a couple of ways to get out of a contract with the cell phone company such as:
• Switching your phone to another phone with problems. After that, complain to the cell phone company a couple of times about the problem, and you’ll be let out of your contract because of the lemon law.
• Tell the company you’re moving to an area where their service doesn’t cover. The company isn’t required to cut you from the contract except Cingular because of their policies. This could work if you’re stubborn about getting off the contract.
• Use your free roaming to make calls. Free roaming is free for you, but not the cell phone provider. The company has to pay the other company money for the service you are using from them. Using roaming on your free nights and weekends will add up to the point where they will just kick you out of the service. Make sure you have free roaming before trying this.
• You can try to reduce your contract to 1 year by asking the company to mail the legal copy of the signed contract. If the can’t mail you the legal copy of the contract, then they are only able to keep you on the contract for 1 year.
• Sell or trade your cellular phone contract with other people. Companies like Celltradeusa.com help people trade their phone plans for $20.
• In some cases where you only have a few months left on your contract, you might consider losing your extra features such as sms texting, picture messaging and internet features. Depending how many months you have left on your contract, this will save some money compared to paying the early termination fee.
A minor can never be forced to stay in a contract.
For contracts with unlimited nights & weekends, many things may be a violation to the contract such as limiting your minutes at nights and weekends, busy circuits from the company or if your reception is worse than that being advertised on their coverage map.
Some companies will still kick you out of their service and still charge you the early terminating fee.