Can I give over my account to someone on my plan and the cancel all my stuff?

Question

Hi, Sorry for how long this is going to be, but I need to explain.
So I am struggling financially.
I had to get a car and it has payments.
So I need to downside my spending.
99% of my time I am in a wifi setting. And I am able to text unlimited and use unlimited data as well.
I'm more a texter than a talker. I can text on my computer or iPad. So my phone pretty much is useless unless I go out or need to talk on the phone.
When I first joined Verizon I signed up for a data plan on my iPad. But now I have a hotspot, iPhone and my friend's phone included.
I no longer need the hotspot having an iPhone or the data plan on my iPad. And Verizon has graciously helped me with that and takes the amount I would pay for both and deducts it from my bill each month.
But, they are still on my plan. So if I cancel I would need to pay a cancelation fee for all devices I cancel.
And that's fine if I do. My bill is probably near what a cancelation fee would cost. So if I have to pay that's fine. I will. It'll be rough but after 2 months it'll be worth doing.
I was reading about an Assumption of Liability and if I could do that, that would be great. But I don't think I can since I have someone on my plan.
I am going to go to another phone company. Ugh!! I have been with all the big phone companies. The 2nd best to Verizon is AT&T. TBH, you will not get better than the 2 companies. And remember, you get what you pay for. So it's sad to leave. I love Verizon! IDC what anyone says. In the past year Verizon has bent over backwards to help me with an issue I was having and they are the best. If someone gets bad service from them, report that person cause the company really cares about their customers. I am an example of that. And the coverage is great. I like AT&T too, but I would have trouble with them from time to time. But with Verizon never!! And doesn't matter where you go. Like there are some areas where service will cut out but I never had that problem with Verizon.
But, after moving, in my area, the company I'm going to, is great service as well and it meets all I need for a lot lesser price.
You do get what you pay for and downgrading is never good. But sadly I have to pick what's more important and in this case, is my car. So I have to go with what I can afford.
Anyways, what I would like to do is...
Hand over my account to my friend that's on my plan, make it their's and cancel all my devices.
But since I do want to keep my number and usually when doing this, it cancels the plan you are on.
IDK if I can do that since I'm not sure if it will cancel the entire plan or just the phone itself.
As I said, if I have to pay the etf that's fine.
Because that's the plan. Hand over to my friend the account and cancel my devices.
So if someone could tell me if that's possible that would be great.
Where I live now, Verizon isn't close by and finding out without having to talk would be great. LOL
So any help anyone could give me, please reply back here.
I need to do this all before the 15th before I get charged for another month. So asap answers pleaseeeee?
Thanks!!
Kathy

Answer 1

The ETF for each the iPad and hotspot on contract would be $175 each less $5 for each month of your contract(on each) you have competed. So if you had completed 1 year on each of the devices, the ETF on each device would be $115 or $230 total.
I assume you have a smartphone and you want to keep it instead of moving to a basic phone. If you are willing to switch to a basic phone and have access to one, you could get on Verizon's More Everything plan for a basic phone only to the tune of $25/month + taxes. That would give you no data, 700 minutes of talk and unlimited texting.
If you have a smartphone and would want to keep it, you are looking at $40 line access fee, unlimited talk/text and a minimum data plan of $20/month for a total of $60 + taxes on the More Everything plan.
Verizon also has a single line plan which includes unlimited talk/text and 1 GB of data/month for $60/month + tax.
Of course, to sign your other devices over to someone, they would have to agree to do so.
Good luck.