Will be International for 5 months and want to remove plan for this time

Question

I will be studying in Austria for an extended period of time and would like to bring my iphone5, but not use any sort of plan with it (I'll just use wifi and as a camera). Right now I have a contract for several years (unlimited talk, text, and 2GB data) and pay $60 a month for it. There are two other phones on my account. I was wondering if I could just remove my phone for these months (and not pay for a service I wouldn't even be using) and then resume my plan when I return in July.

Answer 1

You can't "remove" your phone for this time without paying the ETF since you are under contract.
Verizon allows you to "suspend" service without billing for 90 days at a time. Once the 90 days is up, your service will automatically restart. Once it restarts, you can go back in and suspend it again. Verizon allows you to do this twice in a year for a total of up to 180 days in a year. Unfortunately, with the service automatically restarting again after 90 days, you will most likely have 1 month of service for which to pay.
While in Austria, you should be able to simply remove your Verizon SIM card and insert a SIM card from a local provider to get service thru them.