We've been a Verizon customer for 20+ years. I despise them. The only reason we're a Verizon customer is that my sister-in-law in California is and my wife talks to her almost every single day. But no more. Verizon is really putting the screws to us with our daughter in NC. I'm going to get a Nexus 4 and go with Straight Talk monthly. If it works for me (we live in a geographical oddity - two weeks from anywhere) then the whole family will switch.