How to activate an iphone 4 on verizon?

I just ordered the iphone 4 and it should come in within a day or two. I'm upgrading from the cosmos touch, a basic phone. How can i activate the iphone when it comes in? Will it transfer my contacts? Can I activate/transfer it online or do i have to go into a store?

I haven't gotten a new Verizon phone in some time but when I got my Samsung Reality in August, 2010 they activated it in store. The contacts were on the phone immediately. When you get the phone you can call Verizon (there should be a sticker with a phone number on the phone; pretty much any call you try and make with that phone will go to Verizon) and activate it that way. You shouldn't need to go to a store. In '06 I did activate over the phone - I had lost my phone and got a cheap replacement from eBay.

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