Can I buy the iphone 5, deactivate it and activate an old phone?

I do not have the money to afford the data plan for an iphone 5 right now, but since I am starting a contract, I wanted to take advantage of the 2 year contract price for when I am able to use it. I hear a rumor that you have to have the iphone 5 activated for a certain amount of time (a year?) before you can deactivate it... but this can't be true? What if someone simply decides they don't want to pay for a smart phone anymore? Or the phone itself breaks? There's no way Verizon can restrict customers from changing phones.

If you're talking about upgrading an existing line on a new 2 year contract, I'm pretty sure you can do that unless Apple has some restriction.  Don't go through a 3rd party store because they usually have some additional restrictions.

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