Can I switch phones if I am not the account owner?

I am planning on switching phones short of when my contract ends because I am frustrated with my current phone. I am planning to buy a phone off of ebay, but I'm wondering if I will be able to activate the phone successfully (under the same account) even if i am not the account owner (my dad is)?

In addition to the information provided by mdram4x4, you can power the current device off, and then dial *228 send and then choose option 1 on the new device to activate it.

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Owner status on POST PAID is not the same as PRE PAID.
on prepaid you can get any device you like.
But you pay upfront.
People on post paid get the advantage of reduced priced devices on contracts. Prepaid is no contracts.
Any carrier will function the same way. Go online and check out Verizon pre paid policy and then look at the other carriers.
Maybe prepaid from Walmart or Boost Mobile, or Cricket etc. would be best for you. Pay for all you can eat calling, texting and data for one low price. Say $45-$55 and buy the phones they offer.
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WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE!! How am I not the account owner??

Just got off the phone with customer service rep Chris, who was extremely unhelpful and got uppity with me when I would not give my full social.
Anyway, here's what happened. I recently assumed liability for a number from another account. Somehow, after confirming everything was correct with the assume liability customer rep, the person who's account I was assuming the liabilty of became the owner of my account. Huh?
So I get my bill in the mail and there is another persons name in the mailing address. So I promptly get on the phone with Chris, who after asking for the last 4 digits of my social and discussing the account issue with me puts me on hold. After coming back, he informs me he will need my entire social security number to continue. I tell him I am not comfortable with that and he proceeds to tell me that he will no longer be able to discuss the account with me because I am not the owner.
Well, this just enrages me. Somehow a minute before we were discussing the account, but after Chris does some digging he realizes he is not talking with the "owner", he changes his tune. So I then basically tell them they are in error and need to fix it. Chris continues to tell me since I am not the owner of the account he can no longer talk to me. So I then say, if I am not the owner, than I am not responsible to pay and will no longer be doing so. He then puts me on hold and comes back a few minutes later and tells me he fixed it with Credit Department and Fraud Pervention. I ask him how that was possible since I never gave my social and he has no answer for me. I then tell him I would like to speak to a manager and he says I cannot, but someone will call me back with 48 hrs.
So somehow without my permission, verizon changed my account. This violates their side of the terms of service or agreement(whatever). So I ask any verizon employees here and the community at large, what? how? why? Verizon needs to make this right. In their mission statement about customer service they say they are committed to providing the best customer service. What happened to me here is a direct contridiction to that and it is ridiculous that I even had to deal with it.
In the future if Verizon decides to change the owner of my account again, what am I supposed to do when the next boneheaded CS rep tells me I am not the owner? How do these CS reps have access to do these kinds of things without my permission? Why am I still with this company if they will violate their ToS, but somehow will still charge me if I don't want to have an account with them anymore? And how about the other party involved, that unbeknownst to them, they somehow became an account owner of an account they have no knowledge of. How do these things even happen?!
Verizon you messed up big time and I have all the docs and call logs I need to prove it.
I wonder what will happen first, that call from a manager within 48 hrs, or some rep responding here trying to tell me I did something wrong.

ok... call them again, be nice and see if they can confirm any of the information the other rep gave you. It is entirely possible (and seems quite likely) that the other rep was just making stuff up due to being confused and feeling out of their depth. So call in again, see explain the situation and see what the next rep can do for you, if they seem a bit too confused then ask to speak to a supervisor and they should be able to get you connected while you're still on the phone (you may have to hold until one is available).

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Can I switch phones if I am not the account owner?

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