n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
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Re: Moving handsets between carriers
said by AZ_OGM  :I'd like to see them also put in a clause to allow you the freedom to transfer handsets between carriers. Although I heard a rumor that Verizon is planning on doing this. But if something like this were to happen, how many iPhone owners would stay with Death Star mobile? Their only other choice in that case would be T-Mobile since they are the only other nationwide supporter of GSM in the United States. Verizon and Sprint are compatible with each other but they are more difficult to work with because they do not use SIM/R-UIM cards.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| As far as I know you can not take a CDMA phone from Verizon to Sprint or vice versa- something about serial numbers, which could be remedied if the CDMA carriers used RUIM more...
Though it'd be kind of pointless to introduce it now, when 99.999% of CDMA US phones can't use the cards, and Verizon is going to upgrade to LTE, which will probably use SIM-like card as it's from the GSM standards committee, though I guess RUIM usage would still good thing for consumers anyway, even so late in the game... |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| said by EPS :Verizon is going to upgrade to LTE, which will probably use SIM-like card as it's from the GSM standards committee Of course knowing how Verizon likes to keep 110% control over their users I would not be surprised that should future LTE handsets incorporate a SIM card Verizon would probably figure out a way to permanently fuse it to their handsets.
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justDave
join:2000-02-29
Brooklyn, NY | reply to EPS
You used to be able to activate Sprint phones on Verizon, assuming they were compatible and you knew how to program them. They stopped it about 2 years ago.
It's not a technical problem. It's just the way VZ likes to do business. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to n2jtx
said by n2jtx :said by AZ_OGM :I'd like to see them also put in a clause to allow you the freedom to transfer handsets between carriers. Although I heard a rumor that Verizon is planning on doing this. But if something like this were to happen, how many iPhone owners would stay with Death Star mobile? Their only other choice in that case would be T-Mobile since they are the only other nationwide supporter of GSM in the United States. Verizon and Sprint are compatible with each other but they are more difficult to work with because they do not use SIM/R-UIM cards. Yep, who are you going to run to Mr iPhone user? Urban areas only Tmobile? Alltel went roaming only GSM, and the rest of the GSM carriers have been bought by one of the nationals. Suncom=Tmobile, Dobson=ATT, Unicel=Verizon(Switch to CDMA),EDGE Wireless=ATT. |
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