What if you are on contract & move out of the area or even out of the country for a time?

Question

I'm just wondering. My win mob 6.5 phone is not working very well. It freezes, the alarms have 5 alarms when only 1 was set & sometimes they seem to not even go off. Previously they would go off even when turned off--didn't seem to make a difference.  Sometimes it is really slow to open an email, etc. & this one was a replacement for the Touch Pro 2 which wasn't working right.
So at any rate, I need to get a new one before long & want another smart phone--a reliable one this time. I would like to get the iPhone 4S I think.
I'm eligible for an upgrade, although when I used the upgrade fundtion & looked at the iPhone 4S, it just showed the 2 yr price--it didn't show my New Every 2 discount.
In addition, I'm not sure what  my long term plans are.  I'm not planning on moving anywhere real soon, but it is possible that I might be moving out of the area before 2 years are up or maybe not. Or I might even go overseas for awhile.
So what happens if you are on a 2 year contract & move out of the area either permanently or out of the country for months or more? btw, before these smart phone fiascos, I kept my last previous basic LG flip phone for about 5 years because it just worked.

Answer 1

So what if its a different Verizon region? You just move & keep your contract if there is service?
& if you suspend without bllling, is there a time limit on that?
Of course they should give you credit for months when you could get a new phone but keep the old one. Before this period just ending (which because they messed up & called a replacement an upgrade & put me on a new 2 yr contract when all along I said no, when I got that taken off & then corrected the upgrade date (originally it was supposed to be 12/2011 & they had changed it to 12/2012) rather than reset it back to the original they reset it to when I got the replacement phone or actually a few months later so I think the contract end date was in July. But now I wlll be up to when my original upgrade date should have been. Well actually I guess they allow you to upgrade maybe 22 mo or so into a contract or they used to.
My previous phone before this 2 yr period I kept the phone for 5 years. The phone before that which was also a flip phone, the hinge broke at least a couple of mo before I was eligible for upgrade so I had it taped together.
I didn't look at other phones & I don't know what their 2 yr contract price would be.