I'm going to throw this out there because I haven't seen it mentioned yet. Verizon offers an interesting option for their customers who are on restricted or suspended service whereby the customer can watch advertisements on their mobile device in order to earn credits of talk time on their suspended phone. For example (and I am not sure about the numbers, they are just an example), a customer might view 10 video commercials and earn 20 minutes of talk time. As long as the phone is charged and can pick up Wifi, it can earn extra talk time. I think it's worth mentioning that these extra credits/minutes do not expire when service is reconnected, and if the service is suspended again in the future, the customer would still have the option of using these credits for extra talk time.