With most cell providers you are alotted a trial period. With USCC it is 30 days to test the phone and network and customer service. I'm not sure if this is true of where you would like to go, but before you cancel, find out. The buy out fee is $150 for in contract and it wouldn't do you much good to go from iffy reception to no reception. I will tell you there is a fair chance of that given that from what I know, where US Cellular is the chance of their service having the best reception is very high. Good luck