{"id":652259,"date":"2013-04-12T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=158071"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:28:33","slug":"verizon-details-changes-to-their-upgrade-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652259","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Details Changes to Their Upgrade Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/150449-solavei-and-ready-sim-promise-to-offer-lte-for-customers-as-soon-as-t-mobile-launches-their-lte-network\/verizon-wireless-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-150450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-150450\" alt=\"verizon-wireless\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/verizon-wireless-630x320.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks as though Verizon has made some changes to their upgrade service. Even though Verizon customers sign two-year contracts when the purchase a subsidized phone, they were always able to get an upgrade after 20 months. Unfortunately, Verizon is no longer allowing that and customers will have to wait until the full 2 years (24 months) is up in order to upgrade.\u00a0Here is what Verizon has to say on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>As the wireless business has evolved,\u00a0Verizon Wireless has continued to expand its device portfolio, providing customers with more options than ever before.\u00a0It is not uncommon for customers to have multiple devices such as a smartphone, tablet and Jetpack. In that context, Verizon Wireless is making the following changes to its upgrade practices:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>In alignment with the terms of the contract, customers on a two-year agreement will be eligible for an upgrade at 24 months vs. today&#8217;s early upgrade eligibility at 20 months.\u00a0This change aligns the upgrade date with the contract end date and is consistent with how the majority of customers purchase new phones today.\u00a0The first customers impacted by this change are customers whose contracts expire in January 2014.\u00a0As always, customers may purchase a new phone at the full retail price at any time.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The New Every Two program ended in January of 2011.\u00a0Verizon Wireless has continued to allow customers to utilize these expired credits.\u00a0However, as of April 15, these credits will no longer be available.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Customers may continue to share an upgrade with another person on an account if that customer is upgrading to a device within the same equipment category.\u00a0Customers can utilize a phone upgrade to purchase a new phone; however, the option to transfer upgrades from non-phone devices (such as a Jetpack or tablet) will no longer be available.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.verizonwireless.com%2Fnews%2F2013%2F04%2Fverizon-wireless-upgrade-statement.html&#038;sref=rss\" >Verizon Wireless<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/158071-verizon-details-changes-to-their-upgrade-plan\/\">Verizon Details Changes to Their Upgrade Plan<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/AzHaS4RVDC8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though Verizon has made some changes to their upgrade service. Even though Verizon customers sign two-year contracts when the purchase a subsidized phone, they were always able to get an upgrade after 20 months. Unfortunately, Verizon is no longer allowing that and customers will have to wait until the full 2 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}