Frequent phone changer

I don't know when I became that customer, but I am "that" customer. When my contract was up with AT&T and I decided I didn't want to have the monthly expense of a data plan for an iPhone, I joined TMobile to at least be on my family's network. I moved to a neighborhood with truly awful reception last August, and told T-Mobile about it and they "put in a service request." They never actually bothered to come out and check things, and they definitely never added a tower nearby. I wasn't able to call my family from home because of TMobile (most other networks are okay here), yet I was with TMobile to be able to call my family. Vicious cycle.
In May of this year, I got so fed up with the reception that I told them I wanted out of the contract. Not an option, they insisted. But for a lovely price I could buy a "UMA" phone that uses my wireless internet connection instead of a network tower (yada yada yada) and extend my contract another two years. With no other options, I did.
But now, whenever it rains or anyone gets online, every call gets dropped. There aren't words for how frustrating it has been these 14 months. I got so fed up with it while trying to talk to my parents one night that something snapped. I fought. I called TMobile and fought. I wasn't mean, or loud, or nasty, just... firm. I refused to pay the $200 contract termination fee when I had been paying for horrendous service for 14 months. It took two days, but they finally came down to a $30 termination fee. Deal.
Now I'm with Verizon.
In the last 38 months I've gone through 4 service providers and 7 phones. Let's hope this one works out. I got an LG Versa. Phones are so high-tech these days... It has a touch-screen interface and all the bell and whistles. To be honest, I was really happy with my Sony Ericsson, before the UMA blackberry, and now this.
Most of all though, I'm so glad that I can finally talk to family when I'm at home. Parking lots get kind of old (and creepy).