How To Get Out of Your Cell Phone Contract for Free

If you're a Sprint customer, but you want to switch providers to, say, AT&T (iPhone) or T-Mobile (HotSpot@Home), you may be able to get out of paying an early termination fee. That's because Sprint's raising the rate for roaming; if you pay for roaming in your plan, you can cite "materially adverse change of contract" to get them to let you out for free.

Over at The Consumerist, one satisfied now-non-customer explains how it's done. And in the comments of that post, another reader explains how he used a similar loophole to get out of his Verizon contract.