Customers have no property rights in their assigned mobile telephone number other than porting rights, and disconnected numbers cannot be reserved or recovered.
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You don't have any rights to your Mobile Telephone Number (MTN), except for any right you may have to port it. After a line of service is disconnected, for any reason, the disconnected MTN may not be suspended or otherwise reserved and may not be able to be recovered.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
SIM Card Intellectual Property Ownership and Capacity Utilization
Verizon owns the IP and software on SIM cards, retains the right to update SIM software remotely without notice, and may use SIM card capacity for commercial and administrative purposes.
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By activating Service that uses a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card, you agree we own the intellectual property and software in the SIM card, that we may change the software or other data in the SIM card remotely and without notice, and we may utilize any capacity in the SIM card for administrative, network, business and/or commercial purposes.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Verizon Equipment Ownership, Locked SIM Cards, and Maintenance
Verizon retains ownership of supplied equipment and routers; customers cannot tamper with, relocate, or remove the locked SIM card, and must pay replacement costs if equipment is damaged by misuse.
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That equipment (i) will continue to be owned by us, and you can't use it for any other purpose, move it to a different location or position without our authorization, tamper with or intentionally damage it, or allow anyone else to service it, (ii) can only be used with the applicable service and plan, (iii) will not function on any other carrier's network, and (iv) may contain a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card that is only authorized for use in the equipment it came in and which you may not remove and insert into another device.
We will repair and maintain that equipment at our expense, unless we determine that you misused, abused or intentionally damaged the equipment, in which case, you will have to pay the replacement cost of it.