Continuing my posts for posterity:

I auctioned my grandfathered contract on eBay and ended up getting $260 for it. This is far superior to paying an $175 ETF to Verizon.

The process, once I found a buyer, was:

- I called Verizon and gave his name and phone number.

- He called Verizon to initiate the "assumption of liability".

- He had to call me to get the last four digits of my Social Security number or my password. (I gave the SSN digits, since I didn't have time to replace my Verizon password with something fresh.)

- Verizon sent me a text with a 8 digit password

- I emailed that to my buyer

And, that's it. All done.


P.S. I managed to get the email address of the head of engineering for T-Mobile in Houston. I've also got some excellent mobility traces showing just how broken their network is here. If I don't get enough love from T-Mobile, maybe I'll switch...