How much it costs to divorce AT&T and jump on the Verizon iPhone: a handy calculator
Some of you have been torn for quite a long time between the desire to own an iPhone, and the better Veizon coverage in their area, but went for Apple's gadget anyway, locking themselves up into an AT&T two-year contract. Now that the Verizon iPhone is a fact, you no longer have to be between a rock and a hard place, so you might decide to jump ship.
A contract is a contract, though, and those ETF fees can be quite unpleasant, especially with the convoluted terms the carriers are binding you. If you wonder how much will the whole Verizon-rocks-man-I-love-me-iPhone undertaking cost you, there is a handy calculator posted by user MM over at the scientific search engine Wolfram Alpha. It prorates the ETF in accordance with how many months you have left of your contract, and also takes into account the doubling of the Early Termination Fee that AT&T introduced on June 1st.
source: WolframAlpha via MobileCrunch
The ETF calculation widget is embedded below for your convenience, and if you have just bought an iPhone last month, the divorce with AT&T will run you the cool $315.
source: WolframAlpha via MobileCrunch
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