getting any service...? I recently moved to a new house out in the country, and now I can't get any service on my US Cellular phones. All of my friends who have Verizon get perfect service at my house. I sthere any way I can get out of my contract with US Cellular without haveing to pay the early termination fees??

Yes, tell them their service keeps dropping you and you want a rebate and drop your contract due to poor service. It may take a few trips to the store, but keep complaining. If they give you a hard time, tell them your not getting the service your paying for. You want a rebate on your phone also, if you paid for that separately.

i also have us cellular and i don't have the contract in front of me but from working at an apartment complex i can tell you they make those things TIGHT so you can't get out. i would read through the contract and see what you can find but i'm highly doubting they'll let you out just because you moved.

First thing I want to ask is how far into the contract are you? If you're over half way through you may be able to get by with a prorated early term fee----say you are on 2yr contract and are 18 months in you may pay like $40 or 1/4 of the $150 early term fee. If you aren't very far into your contract what you can do is a change of responsibility. To do this you would basically just find someone that lives in town that would be willing to take over your contract- you would both go into a corporate store and fill out the paperwork- they would run a credit check on the person taking over but you wouldn't have to pay the etf that way. If the person has their own equipment they can use it or if you would be willing to part with your phone the store can do a master reset and clear all your info out and you could sell your phone to the person taking over. Either way you should call customer service and ask to speak to customer relations to see what they would be willing to offer- they will do what they can to keep you as a customer I must warn you but they would be the ones who have a say on an early termination fee.

My girlfriend has a contract problem with Sprint. About a year ago, she signed a new two year agreement with Sprint and got a free no-name phone. She chose Sprint because the people she worked for had Sprint and thus, calls to/from her boss and coworkers were free. Well, much has changed in a year. She now has a new job, so she doesn’t benefit from the free in-network calls anymore and she has moved into my house where she gets absolutely no coverage from Sprint. However, the biggest problem is that the battery in her crappy free phone won’t hold a charge for more than a half hour. She is currently stuck in a two year contract with about a year to go. At this point, she would be willing to buy a replacement battery for her phone and put up with the bad coverage for another year, but when we tried to buy a battery for her phone, the guy at the Sprint store told us that the battery is no longer available and she would have to buy a replacement phone at full price. She called Sprint customer service, and they told her the same thing. We looked for a battery at a Radio Shack (because they sell Sprint and AT&T phones) but they didn’t have the battery either. We even tried going to a Verizon Wireless store (because Sprint and Verizon both use CDMA phones) hoping that they would have a similar phone that used the same battery, but again, no luck.

The whole point of the two year agreement is that the customer commits to the terms of agreement in exchange for a free phone. Well, that free phone is of no use to her and they expect her to buy a new phone at her own expense. It seems to me that Sprint is in breach of contract. I’m trying to figure out if there is a way we can force Sprint to give her a replacement phone free of charge, without extending her current contract, or let her out of her contract without the early termination fee.