Here’s a tip for quitting your cellphone AND avoiding cancellation fees, straight from the mouth of a former wireless call center rep, Davros.

If the account holder has died, most cell phone service providers will cancel the account with no early termination fee.

It’s sort of like that scene in Mark Twain’s Americana classic where Huck Finn attends his own funeral…

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