Originally Posted by boberonicus

Nope. The phone is both SIM locked and eSIM locked. And according to a nice Verizon supervisor, there is no way to get around this, including paying off the loan, giving them a deposit, noting my 10+ year history as a customer with > $300 / month bills (lots of lines) , etc. It might actually be cheaper for me to buy an iPhone XR for $650 from Apple, which would be unlocked. Then resell it after day 61.

For this trip, my wife is using my Stork Mobile eSIM and I’m tethering off her. Then I'm off to Vietnam on business where I'll buy more $$$$ Verizon data. I'm not sure if the 60 day lock program has decreased fraud, but I can promise that it's a nice bump to Verizon's bottom line.