Progams that work with Alltel and Suddenlink are no longer working with VERIZON (IRC)

I have worked this issue TO DEATH already and am getting FED UP!
I have been polite and nice and called customer support to get very short and not very explicit answers to this issue.  
Complaint #1: When I call technical support and ask questions more complicated than " How do I plug in my computer?" they inform they are transferring me to TECHNICAL support.  Okay so who did I call in the first place if not tech support.
Problem:  IRC ( Internet Relay Chat)  Is one of the main things that I enjoy doing online.  Some do games, some do work.  I do it all through my little IRC program.  When I was with Alltel and had my little blackberry pearl.  I could even get onto irc just fine that way.  Getting on via a cell phone is kind of a pain.  Small keyboard and lots of typing isn't my idea of that relaxing but.. okay whatever at least I could get on.  Since Alltel became Verizon I was told to upgrade my phone to the brand new Blackberry Curve.  Well now IRC didn't work.  I upgraded to the LG Vortex.  Now it works on my phone.  So I upgraded my wireless card too and IRC worked just fine for a long time.  NOW we are back to the same old same old.
For those of you not familiar with the program just wiki it.  I have been told by NUMEROUS customer support reps that this program is not being blocked so this is the list of things I went through to make sure it was indeed NOT me or my computer.
Step 1: System restored before most recent updates to the last date that it was working.
NO GO
Step 2: Disabled firewall and virus software temporarily and even turned down my security on my browser
NO GO
Step 3: Re updated my computer and updated my firmware on my MIFI2200 card. 
No go
Step 4-7 Called customer Support
NOPE.
Still waiting.  I am paying for a service that is not providing.  My entire family was with Alltel and is now with Sprint.  I just keep asking myself why am I still with Verizon when all we ever do is fight.  I hate to admit it to the kids but I think it's time for a divorce from you if we can't get this issue resolved.  Before upgrading to these devices I even asked store reps if irc programs would work and they assured me " OH YES!  With these new upgrades things will be better than ever!" 
I realize to some this seems like not a very big deal, but when I am paying for a service so that I can come home relax, maybe take a few art commisions while chatting on irc and all the sudden I either can't use it or can use it when I couldn't before it's amazingly frustrating.  I have taken my computer over to other people's houses to see if turning my security all the way back up as well as my firewall made a difference, but on any provider OTHER than verizon I can connect just fine.
Tell me WHY Verizon.  Tell me why you either can't fix this.. or won't fix this.
Security issues?  That's my problem.  If I want to connect to a DNS server based program that connects via different ports.. that should be MY decision.  You should NOT get to make that choice for me.  
It's amazing I went to the customer support for IRC and they told me that Verizon doesn't allow you to use IRC.  I have checked NUMEROUS boards and discussion forums only to have them tell me that VERIZON does NOT allow you to use IRC.   However when I talk to Verizon they say " No it must be you.. "  Well I am not taking that excuse anymore.  I've done my share of work on this problem.  Now it's your turn.  Sorry to be rude.. but I paid for the mIRC program, and take artwork commisions over it as well.  I probably pay more for verizon's service than I would with sprint (so says the rest of the family).  
Please give me some real answers and real tech support. 
Thanks for any help. 

I choose option 3.  The moment I talk to them about anything more complicated than the bare basics of getting connected they tell me they will transfer me to " tech support."  Very frustrating lol.  I always wonder who I was on the phone with prior to that because it says Tech support but clearly there must be different levels of their support lines.  Sometimes I get someone who will talk and work with me, but generally I get someone who says " Okay I have down your issue and I'll pass it along.."  then they hang up.  However I have been transferred twice in one sitting from "tech support" to Tech support.  So I dunno.  I think they don't have an answer and so they run me in circles.

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