I want to get off the plan start a new account but can't contact account owner

Question

Hi,
My brother and I have been on the "NATIONWIDE TLK&TXT SHARE 700" plan and the account owner is a friend of our family.
I have almost fulfilled my two year contract (it will be over in about 1 month) and we would like to upgrade to a new Iphone and put my name as the account owner (none of us had enough credit by the time we got these phones from Verizon, but now we are able to pay our bills and would like to be responsible and keep privacy).
I've noticed that in order to accomplish AoL, curruent account owner needs to call Verizon and authorizes the account transfer, but the problem is, I haven't been able to contact her for a month(she won't answer the phone and no call back has been received...).
So I was thinking I should just give up keeping my number and start a new contract and a plan with my brother.
My question is, as just an account member (not owner or manger), can my brother and I get off the plan without owner's permission? She and I are not on the same plan and she actually gave me some kind of password so that I could manage some stuffs with customer service. I was actually able to cancel my mother's line from the family plan one year ago with that password , but I wonder if I could do the same thing with both my brother's and my lines without owner's permission.
If I can do that, is there any way to keep my numbers when starting a new account without having current account owner involved since I can't reach her? 
If I start a new account and a plan with my brother and get the phone with 2-year-contract, rather than just upgrading to an iphone (while keeping my number under the current account owner like now), how much money will I be losing? Would it be a lot?

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whatwhywhere wrote:
My question is, as just an account member (not owner or manger), can my brother and I get off the plan without owner's permission? She and I are not on the same plan and she actually gave me some kind of password so that I could manage some stuffs with customer service. I was actually able to cancel my mother's line from the family plan one year ago with that password If you were able to do this, then you must be an account manager
, but I wonder if I could do the same thing with both my brother's and my lines without owner's permission.
If I can do that, is there any way to keep my numbers when starting a new account without having current account owner involved since I can't reach her? If you are an account manager, I would think you should be able to accomplish this. You should call *611 or go into a Verizon store to find out.
If I start a new account and a plan with my brother and get the phone with 2-year-contract, rather than just upgrading to an iphone (while keeping my number under the current account owner like now), how much money will I be losing? Would it be a lot?
If you start a new Family Plan with 2 lines instead of remaining part of a Family Plan with 3(or more) lines, you could end up paying more. Not knowing what your arrangement is, though, we cannot begin to tell you how much more you would be paying.
For example:
700 minute Family Plan with unlimited texting for 2 lines would be $99.98/month + tax for a total of ~$50/person.
700 minute Family Plan with unlimited texting for 3 lines would be $109.97/month + tax for a total of $37/person.
Any add ons such as insurance, data, etc... would of course be extra. You may also have to pay a security deposit in addition if you do not have much of a credit history.