Primary account holder is buying iPhone 4, then giving it to me?

Question

My mom is the primary line on our Verizon account. She is elegible to upgrade to the iPhone 4, but I am not. We want to pre-order the phone for me on the 3rd, then swap our upgrade dates when the phone comes in and activate the phone in my name. I've read things about manually having to change the MEID number to the MDN number if that's what we do but I have no idea what that means. Lots of thanks to whoever can answer this for me.

Answer 1

OP, Suzy is correct but there is one thing to note here which is very important.  What kind of phone does your mother have now?  The iPhone requires a data plan.  If your mother does not currently have a smart phone, then when she buys the iPhone she will have to add a data plan.  When she goes to downgrade back to a non data plan, it may cause issues.  This may be less likely if you are on a family plan, because you are dealing with one account.  The only reason why I mention it is because last time I was in a VZW store there was someone next to me trying to argue with them to downgrade a line to a non-data plan, and even though they had a non-smart phone ready to activate the CS rep said they could not remove the data package because that's what they had signed up on the account with.  This did not make any sense to me because the data package is an "option" and not a minute plan, so it should be able to be removed and not breech a contract as long as you activate a phone that does not require a data plan instead.  I stayed out of it as it was not my business, but it may come up especially if you and your mother are on two separate plans.
[lol's for the random side note here...]
One more verification to my previous post regarding the iPhone.  Good luck kid.  : )