I bought it out right.
Not that your opinion is any thing less than anyone elses. But even if I were to buy it subsidized They have no right to alter my phone to fit their wishes. They own me for the duration of the contract. If I bail early I owe them $ not the phone. They still get their money and then some.
Using your logic. If I were to lease a car or renting so to speak the dealer has no right to modify the way it runs while I am using it.
In my situation I am paying for a "service" at the same subsidized price as a contract but not getting the upgraded phone to keep my grandfathered Unltd data plan.
You're right, and especially if you bought it outright then you do most certainly own the device. Again, I really wasn't trying to call you out on your statement, I was more or less playing devil's advocate to all the folks that comment, "this is my phone and I should be able to do whatever I want with it", even though they technically are leasing to own and signed a contract which gives Verizon the power to do this sort of thing. I don't agree with it, and I don't like it, but that doesn't make it any less true. FWIW, I've bought phones off-contract myself, and hate the fact that you still have to pay the built-in phone subsidy as part of your service plan even if you don't have a subsidized phone...there *should* be a discounted rate for that.
The real problem is, of course, that we're all slaves to the "network", as the phone itself is pretty worthless without the service to go with it...and that's how Verizon (and pretty much every other carrier) gets away with stuff like this.
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